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Englund · Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Posts: 17 Location: Longmont, Colorado

I hate to throw a wet towell on this subject but Id rather not have someone experience the same as I. I purchased a Leupold VX-1 from Bass Pro in Denver and istalled it on a Kimber 8400M 270. Off the bench my rifle was stringing shots up to 4" lat. I assumed it was my rifle considering the scope was brand new and all of the scopes Ive ever owned were flawless Leupolds. After making the decision to go try it again the next day, I wanted to make sure my scope was in focus so using a white wall in my house I proceeded to adjust the reticle, low and behold when adjusting I noticed my crosshairs jumping in the same direction as reticle adj(L,R). Long story short, lateral stringing earlier that day. I exchanged that scope that night and go figue, the new scope had the exact same problem :](*,) . Im not saying Leupold is junk by any means, but, was it just a bad lot, design, or what? I dont know but I exchanged my second one with a Burris Fullfield 3x9, no more stringing. I will say Ive never had a problem with my older gold rings but the newer VX-1s I dont have any faith in. Im certain had I shipped the scope to Leupold they would have corrected the prob but I had already lost confidence and didnt want the doubt before attempting to dispatch a bull elk. Sorry if Ive ruffled any feathers, but that was my unfortunate experience with the "new" leupolds.

Mountain EER · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Crossville, Tn.

I recommend. looking through a BURRIS, it's 100% American made.

bitmasher · Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Posts: 2652 Location: Colorado

Mountain EER wrote: I recommend. looking through a BURRIS, it's 100% American made.

I like burris but this is not entirely true. The 3-9x40 and 4.5-14x44 fullfield II are made in the phillipines to keep up with product demand.

WesternHunter · Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 685 Location: Western USA

There is always at least one junker in every batch made. The same hold true not only for Leupold, but for Zeiss, Schmidt & Bender, Khales, Burris, and Sworafski. These are all companies who have earned a reputation for very high quality. But for the one who spend his/her hard earned cash for a quality scope only to get a defective one.....well.....faith is understandably lost in that company. I don't think that you can go wrong with either of the above makers. Keep in mind that the old Colorado made Redfield scopes were held very high in praise by hunters and target shooters. However the sniper of all snipers, the late Carlos Hathcock didn't speak very highly of their performance while a serving as a Marine sniper in vietnam. He prefered the Unertl scope.