Add Me to the Leupold Complainer List

[hunt1up]

I’ve always owned a few Leupolds. I’ve got an older VX-2 on my Savage 220 and it has shot great for 12 years. In recent years all my scopes have been higher end, but I’ve got two muzzleloaders that wear newer Leupolds. This weekend is muzzleloader season and I’m taking my daughter to a friend’s property that holds some quality deer. I assumed the guns should be fine, as they were both shooting great when I put them away 2 seasons ago(didn’t shoot them at a deer since then and our ML seasons are short. For the record, the following gun has killed 5 deer without issue.

The first gun is a TC Impact. Always shot lasers and groups great. I take it out yesterday and at 50 yards of barely hits the cardboard that my target is on. Ok, I’ll adjust it. I got it shooting 3” high, but I was underdressed for the bitter wind so I decided to go back today. First shot off bags and a bench, no wind, 3”, 1” right high. Ok, good. I adjust accordingly, 2” low, 2” left on the seconds shot. Maybe I went too far? So I adjust again. Next shot, 2” low and right. Maybe it’s the loads, they’ve always been perfect? Adjust again, hits the same spot. Adjust again, hits the same spot. Adjust again, same spot. 4 shots all nicely stacked in a 1” group. It just won’t track.

Seconds gun is a TC Triumph. Always meticulously maintained, scopes perfectly torqued. First shot, 3” left. It was good when I last shot it? Adjusted and stacked two rounds on top each other in the bullseye.

Both these guns are babied, never been dropped. Walked to a blind or tree and back in the safe. I don’t shoot thousands of rounds but I shoot enough to be dangerous. My other guns with Trijicons and better scopes always group and adjust perfectly.

So add me to the pissed off Leupold customer list. Two new Credo 3-9s are on order.

 

[Billy Goat]

To be fair, what powder?


Pellets in my experience tend to absorb moisture, lead to sporadic results. Besides real BP or BH209, I always started with fresh, sealed powder every year.


I have had poor experience with Leupold also tho.

 

[hunt1up]

To be fair, what powder?


Pellets in my experience tend to absorb moisture, lead to sporadic results. Besides real BP or BH209, I always started with fresh, sealed powder every year.


I have had poor experience with Leupold also tho.

BH209. Always kept in a dry safe. Weighed to the 10th of a grain on a scale. Chrono had every shot within 10fps of each other.

 

[rickyw]

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I wanted to get a better community pulse on the subject. I know this isn’t a perfect way to collect data - there are different variables at play a survey can’t account for; but, it’s better than a long thread.

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[Macintosh]

Because I can see the future, I make a MAGICAL prediction that when you send it in to leupold it comes back with a work order that says “reworked erector system”.

Not that Ive seen this exact same thing several times before, or anything.

 

[butcherboy]

Interesting. I’ve never had a problem with Leupold scopes. Even had one I remounted on another rifle when I rolled an atv 800’ down a mountain. Broke the synthetic stock and bent the barrel over like a spaghetti noodle. No damage to the scope. Remounted on another gun and it shoots lights out no problem.

 

[Chris_in_Idaho]

... Adjust again, hits the same spot. Adjust again, hits the same spot. Adjust again, same spot. 4 shots all nicely stacked in a 1” group. It just won’t track.

I've lived out this one with two different Leupolds, but for me it would then suddenly jump 8-10 inches in the middle of a group as if the recoil finally shook the erector out of its bind.

 

[gbflyer]

We started whacking on the side of them after adjustment 35 years ago. Especially the friction ones.

 

[Chris_in_Idaho]

We started whacking on the side of them after adjustment 35 years ago. Especially the friction ones.

So these problems have been known for a loooong time?

 

[Grundy53]

We started whacking on the side of them after adjustment 35 years ago. Especially the friction ones.

I still catch myself doing this out of habit. Lol

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[atmat]

Be prepared to be told by a few vocal members here that you’re wrong and only came to this conclusion because of Formidilosus.

But then switch to a good scope like the rest of us.