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A brief synopsis of the next 10-20 pages of what happens after someone dares state they have trouble with Leupold:

Shortly there will be a gang of micro aggressed Leupold apologists along to explain to you that you don't know how to mount a scope, you expect too much precision out of a scope, you're too rough with your equipment, you shoot too many rounds in a year, you choose cartridges that recoil too much, you don't need to have reliable dialing because hold over is better, real hunters get closer to the game, etc, etc, etc.

Then they will go on a brief rant about how their Leupolds have never given them a bit of grief, so they can't possibly fathom that someone else had trouble with a single one of them. This will include a list of all the functionality they don't expect out of their scopes. It'll end with an American flag wrapped explanation of how merely stating you had a problem with a Leupold is just un American and that any Asiatic sourced optic (except the ones assembled in Beaverton, of course) should come with a copy of the Communist Manifesto, an AOC T shirt, and a one way ticket to North Korea. When it's all over you'll almost want to say amen because it'll have felt a lot like a sermon.

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That's the problem I have with Leupold.
Move it a bunch, it only goes half as far as it should.
Move it that much more, it goes a bunch.
Move it half back, now it's as far off as in the beginning, other direction.

A brief synopsis of the next 10-20 pages of what happens after someone dares state they have trouble with Leupold:

Shortly there will be a gang of micro aggressed Leupold apologists along to explain to you that you don't know how to mount a scope, you expect too much precision out of a scope, you're too rough with your equipment, you shoot too many rounds in a year, you choose cartridges that recoil too much, you don't need to have reliable dialing because hold over is better, real hunters get closer to the game, etc, etc, etc.

Then they will go on a brief rant about how their Leupolds have never given them a bit of grief, so they can't possibly fathom that someone else had trouble with a single one of them. This will include a list of all the functionality they don't expect out of their scopes. It'll end with an American flag wrapped explanation of how merely stating you had a problem with a Leupold is just un American and that any Asiatic sourced optic (except the ones assembled in Beaverton, of course) should come with a copy of the Communist Manifesto, an AOC T shirt, and a one way ticket to North Korea. When it's all over you'll almost want to say amen because it'll have felt a lot like a sermon.

You don't know how to properly focus a scope - was popular for a while too along with diamond coatings being real diamonds....

To the OP how precise is your rifle that you can determine that a scope is not working right ?

It was probably the fact that he put in 15 clicks and shot a second group that landed in the same place as the first group… That is usually a good indicator that your scope isn’t tracking…..

Stand it up on a mirror and see if it’s movng

That too is dependent on the mechanism working well, if not the clicks
being accurate.

If it is sticky, it may look good watching it, then jump on firing.

That's the problem I have with Leupold.
Move it a bunch, it only goes half as far as it should.
Move it that much more, it goes a bunch.
Move it half back, now it's as far off as in the beginning, other direction.


Funny, never had Tascos do that.

Depending on the particular problem, dialing to the hole/group may not work either.

I remember reading something somewhere I can’t remember years ago about Leupold scopes not adjusting right and a person stated that the reason was that Leupold used a grease on the leaf springs that over time would harden and so when you dialed the adjustments sometimes they would stick somewhat and would only move a little after you shot or tapped on the scope to break the grease weld loose. They said that’s why it was good idea to tap on scope and run the adjustments down and back to loosen and spread the grease so that it would adjust right. It may not be true but when you said that the scope adjustments may not move or move more than adjusted after a few shots it kind of seems like maybe it’s true. I don’t know just saying.