Leupold had a booth set up behind my area at the GREAT ALASKA OUTDOOR SHOW in Anchorage last spring..they let me play with it one morning in the building..the one I used performed much better than what others on this blog have described.. Maybe I got one of the "good ones"..
I honestly like Leupold quite a bit..their VX5 and VX6 Scopes are in my opinion superior in clarity and performance to the Zeiss models I have.. feel the VX6 is really close to my Swaro Z5's as to clarity frankly...have used the older VX-3 models in the 4-14 pwr range for years on many of my rifles..had one on my 300RUM that never moved POI on 4 trips to Africa..and it held up to lots and lots of shots over the course of about a 14 yr period..replaced the barrel last year and put a Swaro on this time..but still have that scope..now on a .264 Win Mag...
Put a new Swaro on a 28Nosler last fall.. it gave up the ghost inside of 20 rounds..so yes, they all fail unfortunately ..
Ripp
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