Q&A (#2) Leupold 3-15x44mm Field eval

[Formidilosus]

Q&A for the second VX5 HD. See-

Thread 'Leupold VX5HD 3-15x44mm (#2) Field Evaluation'

Yesterday at 10:06 PM

This is a field evaluation of the second Leupold VX5-HD 3-15x44mm scope. This scope was sent to Ryan Avery for an evaluation.


The scope:



Turrets: Leupold’s Zero-Lock elevation turret. The button must be pushed to move them off zero. The windage turret is capped and Leupold’s standard resettable.







Reticle: Standard duplex with Firedot illumination.



Illuminated




Drop Evaluation RTZ and “Tracking”:


For an explanation see- Scope Field Eval Explanation and Standards


The “test”...

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[Bluumoon]

Impressively bad fail. Ryan shouldn't expect any free drinks from the Leupold reps at SHOT show this year.

 

[1000yards]

So with the four Leupolds that you just posted, not one of them adjusted correctly. These are not even scopes.

 

[Formidilosus]

So with the four Leupolds that you just posted, not one of them adjusted correctly. These are not even scopes.

As has been stated and shown for years. Thing is, 40 years ago they made a model of scope that to this day is one of the most reliable aiming devices ever made.

 

[Formidilosus]

Impressively bad fail. Ryan shouldn't expect any free drinks from the Leupold reps at SHOT show this year.

You mean it’s not impressive that cheap $400 Chinese scopes are better at adjusting, tracking, RTZ, and holding zero than Leupold’s premier hunting scopes?

 

[Macintosh]

Never meet your heroes.

 

[Bluumoon]

You mean it’s not impressive that cheap $400 Chinese scopes are better at adjusting, tracking, RTZ, and holding zero than Leupold’s premier hunting scopes?

Nah, apparently, it's no big deal to make one that works. It is impressive you can make a multi thousand dollar scope that fails at its primary job and still get people to think it's hot sh*t.

 

[Formidilosus]

Nah, apparently, it's no big deal to make one that works. It is impressive you can make a multi thousand dollar scope that fails at its primary job and still get people to think it's hot sh*t.

Sir! The internet assures us that Leupolds losing zero is just a SaMpLe Of OnE!

 

[Tom-D]

Is there a reason all these leupolds are getting tested again? Was there a change in manufacturing or something that had a different result expected?

 

[Halligan]

What I want to know is if leupold just doesn’t care, thinks they’re reliable “enough”, or can’t simply reproduce their success from 40 some odd years ago?

Edit: Form answered the question in the Swarovski thread

 

[Formidilosus]

Is there a reason all these leupolds are getting tested again? Was there a change in manufacturing or something that had a different result expected?

No. People asked if I/we would. Being that there weren’t a lot of actual results on VX5 and 6 HD’s here, it was worth it.