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Ruger #1A in 275 Rigby. 1.5-5 Leupold



Marlin 336 in 30-30 with Leupold 1-4. The extra low mounts are perfect for this. It works very well.



Remington 7600 in 30-06. Nikon 1-4

A Leupold 1.5-5 VX3 goes well with a No 1 7x57 Leopard.
Bob

Works well on a Marlin Cowboy .45-70.

DF

Not bad on .22's, except 100 yd, not 50 yd. parallax, still OK, close enough.

Volquartsen Ruger 10-22 with Jard fire control unit, Hogue stock.

DF

I own more than one 1.5-5 x 20 mm VXIII. I had one on a Ruger 77 RSI in .308 win for years looks like a pretty common choice from all the posts read. With it I harvested my biggest ever whitetail 254 field dressed. The other was on a 3030 I owned it is now on my dads 3030 that I used to harvest my first whitetail with iron sites many years ago. The other is on a dedicated turkey gun now.

They're a very useful short range scope out to 300 max. I prefer a 3-9x40 on a rifle today for short and medium range and more flexibility for longer 3-15 is more than I need.

Good luck and shoot straight y'all

I can see myself getting another later on.

Hard to have too many.

They are handy.

DF

I prefer the 2-7x myself. The straight tube does look good in certain applications, but it is not as useful for me.

The 2x has about as much usable FOV, and the 7x has both more magnification and exit pupil.

A very versatile magnification range, to me.

Have a Leupold 1.5X5 and I am a big fan of Leupold scopes, but a scope just doesn’t look right without an objective bell.

Not always, but sometimes....

I've had several of them and currently have one with the heavy duplex on my M99F .300 Savage and it is ideal in that application. We don't shoot at long range here and more typically thick brush at first and last light. What nobody talks about is the huge exit pupil diameter you get with that 1.5-5 Vari-X lll which means that you can get the full fov very quickly with a less that perfect cheek weld on the stock. A nice feature for getting on a quick moving deer. I have watched that heavy duplex into full darkness which is way past when we are allowed to hunt and I can see that heavy duplex long after the standard one has faded into the background. It isn't as bright as my high end Euro scopes and thus on my back up rifle, but certainly no slouch in my deer woods.

Not at the moment. For several years I carried a stainless / synthetic Remington Seven in 7mm-08 with a Leupold 1.5-5X. It was very good in the huckleberry / tan oak patches I hunted most of the time back then though I liked more magnification in the more open white oaks. I had another on a Marlin SS .45-70 guide rifle.

Though I conceptually like the scope, I think the 1.75-6X was better and the 2.5-8X even more better. I almost never turned that 1.5-5X below 2.5X, so all it really did was take away from the top end without adding anything useful (to me) on the bottom end.

Tom

I’ve owned a few and personally don’t care for them. Mostly I used them on Lever Action Carbines and a Sako Mannlicher Battue Carbine in .375 H & H.
I’m not knocking them. They just don’t let in enough light to suit me.

Give me a Leupold 2.5 X 8 or 2 X 7 Compact any ole day of the week and twice on Sundays. JMHO, for whatever it’s worth.

X2, I didn’t care for the couple I owned. Preferred the 1.75-6, or better yet a 2-7. Particularly if you hunt where there are antler restrictions.

Over the past couple of years I’ve moved a lot of rifles to low power variables . Been getting some practice in and killing a few critters up close / running / moving on 1x shooting with both eyes open with a more squared up shotgun style stance . True 1x is great for this , although I guess I’m fortunate enough I can focus well enough to use 1.25 and 1.5 just as easily . Had some Leupolds and a 1-3 weaver V3 (great scope ! True 1x but has some “fisheye”) a Bausch and Lomb 1.5-6 ... and now the primaries are a Zeiss 1.5-4.5 and Swarovski 1.24-4 . I dig it and will probably be moving to one of the newer 1-8x scopes when I can afford it . I like the straight tube look personally .



Small buck shot jogging at 165 yards last season

What scope is that?

thx

West German Zeiss Diavari 1.5-4.5

I have one on my .375 H&H for when I had hopes of going to Africa, because at the time that is what the "Experts" said to get. Now those same ones are using high end scopes costing thousands with power of at least 12 it seems. I still have it on my .375 since it never seems to go out zero.

I used a V3 1.5x5 on my first Plains Game trip to South Africa, up near Kruger Park. It was perfection! Great scope, no matter where, but especially in mixed terrain.