Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics I’m not Bashing on Leupold,,,,But…

Coffee just came out my nose!

Don’t get too worked up, just yet.

I had and still have a few good Leupold dialers.

Remember, I bought all mine used. There’s a chance I caught scopes that the original owners had an issue with and just sold them without having Leupold look into their problems.

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Had what I thought were good dialing Leupolds till several quit. One during a coues wt hunt! Another a week or so before the another coues wt hunt. Third scope turret movements were sluggish and imprecise. A Leupold tech said to twist the elevation and windage turrets lock to lock several times to distribute the grease. It worked. Who the heck wants to do that every so often to prevent reticles that hang up?

My late friend Don had an expression: "life is too short to hunt with a bad bird dog" That can be modified to: "with a scope that isn't trustworthy". It is getting more difficult to draw a tag. Why risk it?

I like the old Vari-x IIc models. As do a lot of guys. That is apparent on places like ebay, where they have gotten ridiculous in price. I picked up this one a few weeks ago:

Ended up paying $150 for it. I put it on my new to me Remington 788 30-30. Seems to be working just fine on that rifle. It will be a "set and forget" affair as far as I'm concerned. No real reaching out and touching something with that cartridge anyway, so it's a great combination. I'm like beretzs, I always wish like hell that they are going to work, but don't trust them too much until they have proven themselves. I have one Leupold that actually tracks beautifully and it is also a Vari-x IIc Tactical model. I'm going to hang on to that one too:


I've had that one on a 300wby, 2 7mm rem mags and a 30-06. It worked well on all of them. I'm not a basher, just been burned too many times by Leupold to know to be leery of them. I also have a silver Vari-x IIc 3-9X40 that I am going to sell here pretty soon. Haven't even tried that one yet, but I know it will bring some good money.

I can’t argue about your late friends logic.

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Here’s one of the (2) older VX3 in 4.5-14x50 I have that Leupold did for Noveske’s Varmageddon 223 varmint AR.

I bought both new, here, from ElkhuntingGuide several years ago. Both have been great!





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That's just cuz it's on a Model 70.

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How goddam hard would it be for Leupold to distribute the grease during assembly? It that a technological challenge?

What do you use for your zeroing mallet Beav

POS, one and all, proudly made in the USA

Mine work great, and yes, I dial.

Sorry about your luck.

Small edit of your post.

Glass from where ever....? "Pacific Rim", whatever that means. ?Chicom?

Who knowns, and they not saying.

Parts from other "sources"....??

But, they come out of Beaverton.

What could go wrong....

They evidently kept "improving" the old friction adjusters to what they now have.

I'm hanging onto my old ones. I hope I never have to send one back, because they don't make them any more, can't support them and will send me a "replacement"...

At least their CS is active and well... Probably pretty busy...

Too bad it isn't more like the famous Maytag repairman.

DF

I killed a lot of game with Leupold scopes, but when I switched to better scopes the rifles shot smaller groups.

I could never get my files (sic) to shoot. 🤣

They don't all mess up, many work great. I've had and have both kinds.

And their CS is first class.

The issue I have, do I want to be on an expensive hunt way away from UPS and USPS and one go bonkers?

One solution is to have more than one in QD rings, sighted in and ready to go.

Around the house, not that bad, can always send them to Beaverton, get them fixed or replaced in a few weeks.

DF

My typo is definitely funny 😁

I prefer scopes that work as they should and don't have to be sent in for repairs