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While I have have two 6X42's and couldn't be happier with them, I am curious about the 6X36.

The 6x36 will fit the original Sako rings (as the 6x42 will not) on my Dad's Sako Forester Deluxe 308 (the original Redfield Widefield 6x is kaput).

Any downsides to the 6x36 Leupold?

I've had both, now I have two of the 6x36's and can't think of a downside.

Dober

I have both. The only downside I can think of is tracking with the 6x36 may not be as good if you are twirling turrets. Supposedly, and I haven't tested this yet, the newer 6x42s have better tracking with the newer twin erector spring set up. I will know soon in that I'm having a new 6x42 mounted on a rifle that is being built and should be in within the next week or two.

If you're a set them and leave sort of guy as I am with most of my rifles, then either are great. I in fact like the lighter weight and greater tube length of the 6x36 in those instances.

I'm a set them, leave them guy, and I really like the 6x36.

It's got very long eye relief, big eye box, brighter than it should be. It's light, easy to mount on most rifles too.

The new fx3's have a single erector spring, not duals like the vx3. Leupold catalog p 38

field of view I would think be the main diffrence

I have several 6x36mm with the LR on rifles they are among my favorite scopes, but wanting a CDS dial I went to a FX-3 6x42 CDS that works great and other then a couple of extra ounces do not see a downside.

There's very little difference in FOV, and probably not in the way you're thinking: The 6x36's FOV at 100 yards is 17.7 feet, the 6x42's 17.3.

The 6x42 FX-3 is one of the brightest 6x scopes in the world, but the 6x36 isn't far behind. The extra brightness has a price, though. The 6x42 weighs 36% more, in fact it weighs an ounce more than the 3.5-10x40 VX-3.

Check Leupold's new website under the FX3 6x42. Dual spring it is.

IMHO the only down side is if you get a matte finsh 6x36 is the wide duplex is the only out of the box choice. Easy enough to fix if you buy through the custom shop. My son bought one last year with the post & duplex reticle. Great scope. The 6x36 is a bit lighter.

Not a one that I can think of...

I have two of them... one with a German Number 4 reticle and one with a Leupold Target Dot.... they do get shuffled around a lot...mounted on loaned deer rifles for kids coming hunting season I take out in the field... and then on 22s after hunting season.. once again for kids...

the one with the Number 4 reticle, I like due how I obtained it..

Good old Leupold customer service...

some moron was down at Bi Mart, trying to trade in a Leupold 3 power scope that had busted cross hairs on it...and was replacing it for a Simmons 3 x 9 22 scope to put on a 7 Mag..

the Simmons were $39.95...he was trying to sell the girl at the counter for an even trade.. talking up what a great scope a Leupold was.. and they could easily sell it.. not getting it thru his head, they don't trade scopes or rifles...

so I asked him how much he wanted for it... he comes up with $40, to cover the cost of his desired Simmons 22 scope...tells me the gun was inherited from his dad who passed away...

I pick up the scope and look thru it and the cross hairs are turning as I hold it..."sure" I say, and pulled out a pair of 20s to give him...

he and his buddy are leaving the store, and I can hear them a few aisles over congratulating the other on selling a broken scope to some idiot, and they have a new Simmons 22 Scope to put on a 7 Mag for free...

so I get home, box it up.. ship it up to Portland to Leupold..

two days later I get a call from them, and telling me that the scope is no longer made and they don't have parts for it...

so they offer to send me a new 4 power as a replacement...

I ask how much to upgrade to a straight 6 power instead...

the Leupold gal asks could she put me on hold for a second..and comes back with " we have a 6 power with a German Number 4 reticle, that a customer sent in and we put the wrong reticle in it.. it was brand new... would that work? "

sure would 'maam....two days later I get a new 6 power Leupold back in the mail...4 day turn around...

so I have a new 6 power scope for $40... and I am sure these two idiots wasted their new Simmons 22 scope in about half a dozen shots out of their 7 Mag...

proving once again.. Stupid is as stupid does..

Yeah...you can't buy it over the counter in a Matte finish with a standard Duplex reticle.That's all...

If the marketing geniuses at Leupold are reading this,they have lost at least a 10 scope sales to me alone for pulling this marketing faux pas with the 4X and 6X Leupold.I shopped and bought used instead....and I spend like a drunken sailor when I see something I want.

I don't mind a bit of creative marketing but I hate it when a company insults my intelligence and thinks I'm stupid.

And I can toss in at least another 10 from our hunters who checked mine (FX3 6x42) out while in camp. As everyone says, it makes absolutely no sense.

JG: Knuckle heads....

I'm in the drunken sailor who didn't get to spend boat as well...... I am appreciative that they make quality fixed power scopes, but the pairings really are an insult. Hopefully they'll read a thread.....

JCM: Let's hope so....

I hate ordering things,dealing with Custom Shops,etc,and am an impulse buyer. I want it in front of me right now .

If it ain't there, it ain't getting bought,with some exceptions.

Tell me I have to spend another $150 bucks(and order it) for Matte finish and a reticle I've been hunting with for 40+ years and used to buy over the counter, I get downright ornery....and get even more pissed if I have to buy a friggin' variable instead...that's like buying disposable napkins or toilet paper.

If that scope is all that will fit then it's better than irons.

I have one I got on a trade and I think it's on a back row .22 that I will never use.

I'll trade you a Barska Tactical for it - take it of your hands.

Savage 99.

I will upgrade that to a Cabela's Pine Ridge variable straight up for it



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