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Find the cheapest scope in this thread and throw it on a used Ruger American in the proper caliber for your chosen species and none of us would ever "need" anything else. It may not be as fun that way; but, just think of the money we would all have available for other hunting items. I'm as guilty as anybody else; but, man, at times, I'm tempted to do just that.
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Picked up a used Swarovski Z3- 4-12x50mm BT 4W works great.
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Find the cheapest scope in this thread and throw it on a used Ruger American in the proper caliber for your chosen species and none of us would ever "need" anything else. It may not be as fun that way; but, just think of the money we would all have available for other hunting items. I'm as guilty as anybody else; but, man, at times, I'm tempted to do just that. OR, use only one rifle and one scope for all of your hunting.....and use the money saved for hunting trips! But, that is impossible for most of us!  memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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Kind of interesting to see the large number of Leupolds guys are using on their elk rifles- if you go over to the Hunting Optics forum, the general opinion is that they are worthless junk- even the forum sponsor started up a complain campaign to petition Leupold to improve their product!!
Many of us, who have used Leupold riflescopes for many years, with great success, may have a different opinion, based upon actual field experience......... Actual field experience, and more than a little, is what pushed me almost entirely away from Leupold. My hunting rifles (the same ones that get used for elk, sheep, WT, MD, moose, bear, etc) wear SS 3-9x, SS 6x, SS 10x, and LRHS 3-12x scopes. I still have a couple of Leups around, one is a M7 4x on a Win 88 .308, but they don’t ride on my serious hunting rifles anymore. I got rid of all my Leupold variables, save one VXII 1-4, due to wandering zeros. Normal use, not hard use by any stretch, constantly found me finding them off zero. I switched to SWFA SSs and haven't looked back. I do still have a few leupolds, though they're fixed 6Xs and only one has lost a zero on me. I used to hunt off horses a lot and ridding in a scabbard, banging up against trees was what seemed to really cause a scope to loose zero, for me at least. The Leupy 6X42s and the SWFA SSs hold zero much better and I have really been impressed by them over the years. How do you keep a scope that has exposed turrets from loosing zero while riding a horse and banging against trees? That's the reason I refuse to use exposed turrets on a HUNTING rifle...
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You get in the habit of checking them. No big deal for anyone with half a brain....
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OR, use only one rifle and one scope for all of your hunting.....and use the money saved for hunting trips! But, that is impossible for most of us! memtb [/quote] 1949 M70 30-06 topped with a Leopold 6x42. Oops, I also have a '94 30-30.
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1-Leupold 2.5x8 Plex reticle
2-Swarovski 3x9 4A reticle
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#1: Leupold VX II 1.75-6x32
#2: Leupold VX III 6x36
Both have Plex reticles
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Leupold 4.5-14x50 target dot, Sightron 4-12x40 mil dot, and two with Nikon 4-12x40 w/BDC. I have several of the Nikons, and they work so well for me that I will keep buying them, using them, and killing things a long way away with them.
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Zeiss Conquest HD 3-15x50 with Z800 reticle on a 300Weatherby vanguard. Matches my trajectory perfectly at 15x all the way out to 800 yards. Used the software last weekend to adjust and got a second shot hit on steel at 1100 yards. Best performance on elk was 2 shots with the same exit hole at 550 yards. Love it for cross canyon elk. All 4 in our group this year will have that scope on some flavor of 300 it is very fast on target and plenty accurate for elk.
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Did y’all not hear Leupolds are gay? People that shoot and know way more than us elk hunters say they are gay. If those that know way more than us are gay that's fine with me. Their sexual orientation matters not .
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All of the deer,elk, and antelope I have shot in the last 10 years have had the same 6X Redfield Widefield on the same rifle! 150-375 yds. This guy gets it. Mine was a Weaver Classic V 3-9x38 Matte. Never went past 6x. Still have it, sold the rifle last year. The Weaver is the "Japan" made one.
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VX3 4.5-14x40 with a varmint reticle.
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I don't shoot at Elk beyond 300 yds or there abouts.
So, I use large medium bores:
35 Whelen (favorite)
338-06
338WM
I therefore use a Leupold 2.5-8 on all of these rifles.
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