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carry on buying Leupold and risk more scope breakages or fork out for a S&B.
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Interesting. I have personally worked with over 50 Leupolds on everything from 223's to 338 ultras and have shot Leupolds atop 20 pound 50 bmg's and have sold well over 500 to my customers and you know how many I have seen break? Two. And of those two, both were repaired in under 10 days and back on the guns.
Your unfortunate experiences with Leupold just don't match up to my experiences with them.
I even know a custom gun builder who specializes in Safari guns of 338 or larger caliber. For awhile, he sold package combos with scopes mounted. He used Swarovski, IOR, Kahles, and Leupold. After having customer complaints with all the scopes except Leupold, he now exclusively uses Leupold. They are the only scope that hold up.
I own 8 myself with the 9th on the way and have NEVER had any problems. If they are inferior in clarity to Euro scopes, I sure can't see it. One thing I did see was a chuck sitting motionless on a rock at 2051 yards with my Leupold, and I saw him well enough to dump him! And that was after I dialed in 35 minutes into the turret that you say breaks. Well, after the shot, I came back down the 35 minutes and it was back at zero. It never missed a click!
Now, maybe a S&B would have let me make that shot as well, but so did the so called "inferior" Leupold.
Don't get me wrong, I own and love many Euro pieces of glass. I use a Swaro 20-60x80 spotter almost daily, and 10x42 SLC Swaro binos weekly, and a Leica 1200 LRF rangefinder daily. Very good glass, however, you could not convince me as of this date to put a Swaro rifle scope on ANY one of my firearms. I have had two of them break on me while I was looking through them doing load development! I have not worked with as many Swaros as Leupolds, but thus far I would say 8 Swaros with 2 breaks compared to 60-70 Leupolds with 2 breaks. You do the math.
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Groundgrouper, you need to visit the optician mate
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Yes, that was what a client told me on an elk hunt last weekend. I was seeing elk's ears and legs moving through thick scrub oak over 700 yards away all day long while he saw nothing. He commented that I needed to have eye surgery to REDUCE my vision so we would all have a fair opportunity to see his bull! Maybe all I would have to do instead is look through my crappy Leupold scope longer! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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any one who knows me knows i never resist the temptation to go leupold bashing, don't take it to heart. no offense mentioned
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No offense taken. You look for 300 pound pigs and 500 pound staggs at 400 meters and I look for 2 pound prairie dogs at 1000 yards and 4 pound chucks at 1.2 miles. We play a slightly different game.
You use your S&B and down your Heinekens, and I'll use my Leupy and have another shot of critisism. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
