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Ooopsie!...this 8.5-25x puked on a 50 BMG. Hint. LAUGHING!



MK4 16x here and yet another PUKE. Hint. Laughing!






Not that I don't enjoy your Fhuqktwattedness and outright Bullschit. Hint. LAUGHING!

Bless your hearts for TRYING though!

Hint.

LAUGHING!................

Seems to me God has cursed you with piss poor luck with scopes.

Among a lot of other things.

I have used BR and mildots on prarie dogs at those sort of ranges. Works just fine.
Coyotes IME on the other hand dont just sit around and give you time to fart round twisting dials. Maybe Montana coyotes are just particular skittish?

As per the original post. Sitting in a safe for a years with low round count isnt much of a testimonial. I stopped using Leupolds about the time the Zeiss Conquest came out and havent used them since. I only had one ever fail catastrophically but I had many that tracked poorly when zeroing and some that would not hold zero. The optical clarity to my eyes was also poor back then as compared to Zeiss.

I think this is where the appropriate use of “OK Boomer” comes into play. Guess my $100 Simmons shotgun scope I’ve had for 21 years would be the testimony for Simmons repeatability because I’ve never had an issue on my 12ga, Muzzle loader, ARs or the 308 it’s currently on. And I’ve shot it more than once in the last 10 years. Must mean they’re all like this. 🙄

I like Leopold just fine but this thread makes me sad.

We few, we lucky few, that rid ourselves of Leupolds years ago, when we realized Rip Van Leupold would wake up from his 2 decade old slumber and found the long range FFP market and the competition had passed them by with better tracking, better illumination, and clearer glass for way less $....

Hunting fuds will cling to the Gold Ring longer because dial and forget and sub 300 yds shots are mostly their forte, and the 1" Leupold's are still a solid value for those less demanding (meaning ranges) challenges.

IMHO and YMMV

Naysayer? I just got back a 3.5x10 AO from Leupy that was completely rebuilt (they were very responsive). Its demise was trying to adjust the scope for the first time in 25 years...and undoubtedly the recoil of 3 or 400 340wby rounds. I’m happy to have it back....but not sure what I’ll mount it to (I put a spare VX3i on the 340wby).. Perhaps it’s an excuse to pick up another rifle....:). Leupolds served me well for a lot of years....but I’ve now had 2 failures out of perhaps 20 scopes (predominantly vari-x-III). Would I buy another? Probably not. Then again, I won’t purchase another Swarovski Z3, Z5 or Z6 either.

Ballistic reticle don't work good on distances where an " odd number comes up . Example 567 yds. I can be much more precise dialing that range than I can using my ballistic dot for say 550 yds and guessing the extra. I don't like to guess, and I am only interested in first shot kills. Walking it in with 2nd and3rd shots like you do on prairie dogs doesn't work on coyotes, or deer or elk either for that matter. As to the coyote s you mentioned. They actually do hang around at that distance. You see, smart coyote s that have been called, often come in from 400 to 600 hrs and won't come closer. I have seen em sit there for a half hour just looking, scoping it out. Those smart ones are where you need to dial precisely, and kill them with that first shot. No second chances. Hope that clarifies it for you.

What are you smoking now?!

I cant believe I have killed elk, deer, antelope etc with out dialing!?
And walking in shots on PD's doesnt work to hot as the tend to go in their hole after a bullet impacts them.

Not saying you can't do it. Just saying there might be a better way. Doesn't really matter to me what scope/system you use.

The bodies of dead Leupolds obviously.

Could someone please make a bong out of a Leupold? Asking for a friend.