Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics How many have blown a shot because of Leupold ?

Well I missed a shot because the extras 100 bucks I spent on the Leupold kept me from filling my tank with gas so I ran out on the way to my hunting spot. Shoulda went with the Tasco bubblepack Deluxe.

Just kiddin.

I love the looks of a nice shiny Leupold on top of a rifle as much as the next guy.

Seriously folks, take a step out of the ring and take a look at the big picture. The hunting and shooting hobby costs money. Period. Whatever amount more or less you spend or save on a scope isn't more than a dinner out with the family or a tank of gas these days. The argument is quite silly actually. Buy what you like and like what you buy.

Can I blame my butt-shot deer on the Leup on the rifle?

Bastards, they should have at least offered to pay for your hunt as well.

I have blown a shot on a deer because of a Leupold Scope.

I've posted the story before but in a nutshell, Drizzly night, couldn't see a twig in front of the deer and bullet went in sideways. Deer ran 80 or so yards away and stood there. I could see it standing there with my naked eyes. I could see it in my Swaro binoculars quite well. I couldn't find it in my Leupold Vari-X III 4.5-14x50 scope. I adjusted the power up and down, I adjusted the AO but could not find the deer in the riflescope. If I'd of had irons and QR rings I could have made a finishing shot. If I'd had a scope of equal optical quality to my Swaro Bino's I could have made a finishing shot. Instead a deer needlessly suffered for 30 minutes or so.

I got the meat and horns but was upset with the optical quality of the Leupold and sold the scope. I've shot other deer with leupy's and usually they are more than good enough for the job, they just weren't this time. I still have several other Leuplds but I don't use them on my primary hunting rifles.

And before "E" starts spouting off about me being a Leupold "hater" remember that I still have more than twice as many Leupolds as Eremicus does........................DJ

I still want to try a 4X I think they are solid.

I'm sure some idiot will chime in before this thread is over and say a Zeiss would have survived that fall with no problem...just wait and watch. I'll be suprised if it doesn't happen.

Not one problem or blown shot in 37 years of hunting. Can't beat that.

tx270 have faith we've turned the page. (I hope )

Night all Alan

A zeiss would have survived the fall.

I had a couple of Zeiss scopes at the time. Now I wish I had mounted the Zeiss instead of the Leupold. Certainly the Zeiss would have survived the fall. And certainly if the Zeiss had failed they would have reimbursed me for the hunt.

Do you guys think it is too late to try and get Leupold to pay for the hunt???? By golly I think I will take them to court----!!!! You guys are right, Leupold should PAYYYYYYYYYYY. Tom.

Once is enough for me.

dave

Frankly anyone who drops a rifle 30+ feet on a rock face and then doesn't check it to see if it's off.

Well rifles and scopes are tools that have an alignment. If you exceed the ability of those things to hold that alignment and you don't get them re-aligned it's your fault not the rifles.

Nothing in the world is perfect - ok maybe the expectation of a person that everything should be perfect is the real question at hand.

Ya know my 18 year old complains that the world isn't perfect either. He says "we just don't get it" - I have faith that all but the most bull headed of us have the oppertunity to learn, but in the end life's trying to teach you a lesson. If your getting pissed off, it's because your not paying attention - I'm pretty sure it's not "life's" fault.



Spot

No, DJ, I won't call you a Leupold Hater. But I will point out that there is something mighty funny about your post. You had a big variable that wouldn't show you a small twig at 80 yds. ? That really funny. Mine regularly show me .25 caliber bullet holes at 100 yds. "Mine" being the lowly 6X42. But your's, even with as much as 14X on tap, couldn't show you a twig ?
You keep insisting that all one does with the ocular is focus, or make the scope's reticle sharp. Simply not so. First you sharpen the reticle, then you focus the image. E

I had a Vari-X II 2-7x33 on a Win 88 .308, and my friend, who is a VERY good shot, missed 9 straight shots at a WT doe easily within his effective range. I took the rifle home and it shot 12" patterns. I installed a spare Simmons PH I had laying around, and the rifle went back to shooting sub-MOA. A Vortex Diamondback now sits on that 88, and the Leup now sits on my Grandfather's old Savage .22 pump-gun.

Every model of scope will fail from time to time, and every model of scope has cost SOMEBODY a lost shot at game.

Must be that ominous depth of field thingy with those damn A/O scopes.

How many have blown a shot because of Leupold.....

Never!

Lefty C

Never had a luppie cause me to miss or not be able to shoot because of low light.

I did however have a kahles fail on me, and it ended up costing me the bigest blacktail buck I have ever seen while hunting. It lost its zero somewhere between the last time I shot it 4days before. I resighted it in and killed a buck with it later that day. Then after hunting season while at the range I found out it would hold zero for a few shots then jump way off and hold that for a while then jump again. It went back to Kahles for repair and I don't remember the cause but they fixed it. 3 of the 4 kahles scopes that I have used have failed. but they do have nice glass and to be fair I have never heard of anyone else having any problems with them, so I will chalk it up to being very unlucky.

never leupolds fault - I've missed a couple of times though.

I think I missed more with other scopes than leupolds if that helps.

A Conquest would have survived that fall. They are amazing.

They will also grind pepper, work as a microscope if you flip them around, make a good cheerleader's baton, will pleasure your wife or girlfriend, or, even YOU if you are funny that way, make a great candle holder or blowgun, can be used as a prybar or chisel, and -my favorite- will project pornos onto the wall of your tent.

Great scopes. Show me a Leupold that will do all that!

I missed a nice black bear a few years ago because of a Leupold M8 4x scope failure. This is an old Leupold that Ive had for umpteen years that I bought 2nd hand.

I had checked zero a few weeks before hand - everything was good. About a 50 yard shot - clean miss. I sent it in to Leupold got it back a couple of weeks later no charge except for shipping. Something to do with the erector assembly?

This is not a knock on Leupold, I mean from my perspective the darn thing didn't owe me anything at that stage. I'm glad they fixed the old queen for free.