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I NEVER thought it would be me posting this thread, I have been a lifelong Leupold guy and have been using their scopes for more than 40 years. I own at least 20 of them right now and have never had an issue until a couple days ago while on a once in a lifetime deer hunt my trusty Leupold completely failed.
Thinking for the first time ever that I will look elsewhere, very disappointed !!!!!!!!

Would they be listed as frozen? I can honestly say, I've never looked at a BR competition score sheet beyond that of our small club matches.

I don't HATE Leupold. But, I don't buy them anymore. I'm still 50+ deep in Leupold scopes, but, I no longer mount them on any rifle I'm going to use for filling big-game tags. Varmint and target rifles mostly now.

I got sick of:

A "roaming-zero" during different range sessions.

Having to sneak up on a zero with dialing past then clicking back to to reduce backlash

Tapping on the turret housing with something, etc.

Sighting in final POI/POA with the rough center of a 3-5 shot group because you can't get a precise POI/POA with the actual adjustments.

Only being able to move 1 turret at a time during sight in as if you move both you're as likely to end up either, half-way there, or 2x further than you wanted, as you are to end up where it was intended to be based upon actual input on the turret.

I used to be the guy jumping up and down swearing this could never happen and that it was the user's fault. The rings were too tight, or not tight enough, or not lapped, or, and, or, and, or, and, etc, etc, etc............

Then I used some scopes that did track accurately, through both the horizontal AND vertical at the same time, retained zero over multiple range trips, would allow the bbl'd action to be removed and installed without shifting POI/POA.

For a long time, I didn't know what I didn't know, until I did.

Leupold Scopes have worked fairly well for me




870 yards



840 yards



1825 yards



760 yards



934 to be exact



1620 yards

This is illogical to me.

drover

Apparently you are Spock !!!!! and I am not, also you did not read farther in this thread.
I had a Leupold failure on back to back hunts, latest was made in 2019
rcamuglia obviously has had good luck with Leupold as did I..........until luck ran out

VERY impressive Rcamuglia. And able to do it while speaking comprehensible English too!

I out of 20. 5% failure rate. Sounds about Leupold.