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Shot with a Leupold VX2




Shot with a Mark 4




Killed at 760 yards with a VX3




Shot with a Mark 4




565 yards with a VX3




934 yards with a VX2








I also have Leupold scopes on all my competition rifles

1. Course Record matching score of 58 at Whittington's Sporting Rifle Match

2. Runner Up finish at the 2013 Steel Safari

3. 13th Place at the 2013 Sniper's Hide Cup

4. 16th Place at the 2012 Sniper's Hide Cup

5. First Place finish at the most heavily attended SRM in July 2010



Yeah, those Leupolds really suck.



Just began load development on a .338 Norma Magnum with a brand new Nightforce on it yesterday.

It failed after 2 shots.

Midway posted it may be in stock around 7/31...

Easy to form 6XC if you want to go that route. That's what I have done with mine

Hey rc

Sure the Loop-olds are a functional optical sight and kudus to ya (intentional misspelling)

But! Sorta like taking a trip from Florida to California in a S10 with no AC and old shocks compared to traveling in a new Ford Platinum series

Sometimes just how you get there matters!

fixt....and I love all the Leupold bashers here you guys kill me....

Get real.

My gunsmith has a 3500$ March scope. While doing the precision mount on my Creedmoor of a Leupold Mark 4 M5 A2, he compared the glass side by side of both scopes by viewing the mountain range east of town. He had to admit that the Leupold's glass blew away his March.

He also proclaimed it the best scope he's ever evaluated as to function.

Someday you'll realize that most goobers who own Range Rovers never take them off-road and a stock CJ-5 will go more places.

They just care about how they look to others.

Pretty well sums it up about some of the posters on this thread...

so Famous Dave what is the average distance you shoot with that [bleep] bender? Truthfully now.........

Plus, E's statement may have been true years ago, but they've relied too much on their name and reputation for too long and let their competitors catch up and surpass them in features, performance, and value: $ spent. They still make good stuff, but they've had to come to the realization that others are now offering superior products for the same or less $. That fact is evident by all the recent changes in their product lines. They've always been the benchmark for great warranty & customer service, but some of their competitors are now offering warranties and CS just as good. For many years, they touted their "made in US" status, yet the only parts content that is made in Oregon is their scope tubes and mechanical parts of scopes. Everything else, including lenses for their scopes and entire optical product lines outside of riflescopes, is outsourced to Asia. They are really no more American made than Meopta Meopro, Zeiss Conquest, Trijicon Accupont, and others that are assembled in the US from parts made elsewhere.

Technologies borrowed from the VX7 series is used in VX3, at a much lower price. Because of this, the VX3 is now equal to their competitors in the same price range. They've tried repeatedly to compete head to head with the high end Euro scopes with their LPS and VX-7 scopes, and they weren't successful, as evidenced by the new VX6 series coming out that's intended to replace VX7 at a much lower price point (sub- $1K). Comparing feature to feature, their MK4 series tactical / military scopes don't stack up well at all against current offerings from just about everyone else -- Nightforce, S&B, Premier, Hensoldt, Vortex, US Optics, IOR, Kahles, March, and others, all of whom offer better optical performance, better adjustments, better knobs, wider zoom ratios, and better reticles. The MK4 optically lags behind even their own VX3 series. The very fact they are introducing several new tactical scope series is their admission they need to improve.

The upside to all this is Leupold is being forced to up their game, and we all benefit from the stiff competition by having better optics available from not just Leupold, but everyone else.

Thats a pretty astute observation there RifleDude.
In markets that they should by all rights own,there now tail end charlies.
A general rule of thumb is that loopie,these days,is about 7 to 10 years behind,everyone else.

I stopped drinking the coolaid several decades ago.

dave

Hey Dave,

Are your conclusions based on hearsay or first hand experience? Please describe the method you use to evaluate a rifle scope. Have you compared all the offerings in the market?

Hello there RC. Good to see you're still alive and kickin!




May actually try to stretch it out a bit this fall.



first opening +/225 yds.

bump gate +/- 660 yds.

out to infinity.

Best

GWB

Same to you geedubya! If you're gonna stretch it out, better put some twisty turny thingys on the mid section of that tube!

May have to get with you on that. But that's not the rifle I'll be using.

I've a couple senderos in 7 stw and 338 RUM, and a Rem. 700 KS in 300 H&H. that I may play with. I got a Leupold B&C and a couple CDS's that I may send in for a dial. I'll try some targets at 650 or so before I try on hogs. Should be a fun/frustrating experience.

Best,

GWB

Just got in from re-shooting the Audette at 430 yds with the .338 NM and 300 gr Berger

Here's what the first Audette looked like with the Sooper-Dooper Nightfarce scope that failed after 2 shots (brand new)...




The above was shot in perfect, no wind conditions. Couldn't keep them on 2 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11" paper through the ladder


Here's what the Audette looks like shot with a good Vortex Viper FFP at the same range but not even in perfect conditions. Shot in 10+ mph R to L crosswind




The entire ladder is less than MOA. The node of 2 through 5 has less than 1" of vertical

famous dave still hasn't answered questions asked of him...........

Standing by....

I had a new Leupold with an M1 die within two range sessions from a hard kicking 9lb 243.

It was my third one to croak, and the 5th one that needed service since two came out of the box with retardedly stiff power rings.

In 35 years of using them...nary an issue.

usually due to over tightening the scope mounting rear ring...