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At the recent National Small Bore competition in PA, below is a survey of equipment used. I guess most of these guys didn't get the memo on Leupolds....
EQUIPMENT SURVEY LISTING - SMALLBORE HUNTING RIFLE SILHOUETTE
SCOPE MANUFACTURER
BSA 1
BURRIS 1
BUSHNELL 1
EAGLE EYE 0
MEOTPA 0
NIGHTFORCE 0
PREMIER 3
REDFIELD 1
NIKON 1
LEUPOLD 81
SIMMONS 0
SWAROVSKI 0
TASCO 1
VORTEX 3
OTHER 3
SIGHTRON 3
WEAVER 6
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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81 Leupolds used by 6 guys to get through the day (grins)
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Standard rifle (where rifle weight can be up to 10lb 2oz) is a similar story. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/wKtgkNg.jpg)
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81 Leupolds used by 6 guys to get through the day (grins) I use Leupolds, but that is still funny.
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Jorge1: Each year it is getting easier and easier to ignore the few Leupold naysayers that still exist - and are ignorant enough to keep spouting their drivel.
I mounted a Leupold scope this past Sunday (August 29th) on a Rifle I had just purchased - and as expected (and has happened with me for the last 56 (fifty six!) years of my using them - it performed perfectly!
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81 Leupolds used by 6 guys to get through the day (grins) I use Leupolds, but that is still funny. Glad you took it as intended. A joke. Not some insult to 11 generations of your family, requiring a jihad and blood oath to avenge....
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The only issue I have with them is they are HELL BENT on driving away traditional hunters/scope users. Otherwise, why do away with what was arguably two of their best? the 6X42 and 2.5X8X36? (and the B&C reticle)
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I hope they are not getting rid of the 2.5-8x36. That is one of my most used scopes.
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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I hope they are not getting rid of the 2.5-8x36. That is one of my most used scopes. Yep, it's gone. I have a couple in boxes still but agree it's my go-to scope for most hunting. I don't understand it either. Leupold did have a prototype 6-20x42 there that should be decent but at least for silhouette I want a dot on the reticle and the custom shop just seems a big question mark.
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81 Leupolds used by 6 guys to get through the day (grins) I use Leupolds, but that is still funny. Glad you took it as intended. A joke. Not some insult to 11 generations of your family, requiring a jihad and blood oath to avenge.... It made me laugh too. However, Teal, I'll bet that not even you have the guts to post something similar in a caliber thread. You would almost need to enter the witness protection program.
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How many were Tuckerized?
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No, they didn't (do away with the 2.5x8). They added a CDS with zero lock but still offer the 2.5x8. The CDS is not my cup of tea but they're still offering a 2.5x8.
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Notice what #2 is on both those lists????
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At the recent National Small Bore competition in PA, below is a survey of equipment used. I guess most of these guys didn't get the memo on Leupolds....
EQUIPMENT SURVEY LISTING - SMALLBORE HUNTING RIFLE SILHOUETTE
SCOPE MANUFACTURER
BSA 1
BURRIS 1
BUSHNELL 1
EAGLE EYE 0
MEOTPA 0
NIGHTFORCE 0
PREMIER 3
REDFIELD 1
NIKON 1
LEUPOLD 81
SIMMONS 0
SWAROVSKI 0
TASCO 1
VORTEX 3
OTHER 3
SIGHTRON 3
WEAVER 6
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Notice what #2 is on both those lists???? Too bad we can't get them anymore.
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I hope they are not getting rid of the 2.5-8x36. That is one of my most used scopes. Me too, but as Jorge says, they aren't making them anymore. Too bad!
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[quote=jorgeI]At the recent National Small Bore competition in PA, below is a survey of equipment used. I guess most of these guys didn't get the memo on Leupolds....
Shooting low recoil rimfires at 100 yards or less....
dave Although I don't have the list, you will find 90% plus of the centerfire silhouette shooters shooting out 500 meters are using Leupold too. The fact that we're shooting smallbore at 100 meters and less is immaterial in the often repeated fable that Leupold repeatable adjustments suck. Every match requires at least 4 major adjustments to shoot the various animals (for my rifle/scope/ammo it's from 0 on chickens to 11.5 on rams) plus an occasional mid-relay tweak for wind. In a season most of use will shoot 4-5K rounds. That's a lot of adjusting. If they didn't work you wouldn't see that much bias towards Leupold. . But then, well, it's just facts, not hyperbole so worth nothing to the CF Optics section.
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[quote=jorgeI]At the recent National Small Bore competition in PA, below is a survey of equipment used. I guess most of these guys didn't get the memo on Leupolds....
Shooting low recoil rimfires at 100 yards or less....
dave Although I don't have the list, you will find 90% plus of the centerfire silhouette shooters shooting out 500 meters are using Leupold too. The fact that we're shooting smallbore at 100 meters and less is immaterial in the often repeated fable that Leupold repeatable adjustments suck. Every match requires at least 4 major adjustments to shoot the various animals (for my rifle/scope/ammo it's from 0 on chickens to 11.5 on rams) plus an occasional mid-relay tweak for wind. In a season most of use will shoot 4-5K rounds. That's a lot of adjusting. If they didn't work you wouldn't see that much bias towards Leupold. . But then, well, it's just facts, not hyperbole so worth nothing to the CF Optics section. Having shot smallbore and high-power silhouette for a lot of years I can verify this. Leupold offers the best combination of good optics, tracking, and light weight which is very important because of weight limits on equipment. It is becoming more prevalant for silhouette competitors to build one rifle which can meet specs for competing in both Hunter and High-power class using the same rifle. So the scope ends up being adjusted a lot during the course of the day, it will be adjusted up and down in fairly large steps and during the course of the match for minor corrections depending on headwind/tailwind, crosswind, etc. I would hazard a guess that during a week-end match the scope gets adjusted more than the average shooter adjusts one in a year and if it is a Regional or National match then the amount of adjusting goes up proportionally. All in all they hold up very well or people who spend $1000's or dollars to compete every year would not be using them. drover
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I wonder how many they go through before they find one that operates as it should?
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