Questioning the "gold Standard Drop Test" and the conclusions of "This scope brand does/doesn't hold zero"

[omicron1792]

The most surprising thing about this (and similar) Rokslide thread is that it expresses the honest opinion of a small sampling of North American hunters.

Leopold, arguably, the #1 riflescope manufacturer in the country has to be aware this discussion is ongoing. And one would think they are mobilizing their internal R&D engineering team to identify and resolve the technical issues. Once they’ve done that, they would start a nationwide mobilization of their marketing team to change minds.

Does anybody know if Leupold has even acknowledged that this is an issue?

This has been discussed, but I’m sure they have millions and millions of dollars worth of inventory. So they can’t just come out and say “we fixed a problem, buy the new scopes,” but all the inventory would be devalued.

It’s a tough problem. Lots of companies have to recall and fix these problems (cars, drugs) but it’s not like hunting scopes not holding zero is a threat to anyone.

My guess is they fix it, let most of old stock be sold, then advertise the stink out of it.

 

[jimh406]

Expand on this. How do you think someone FEELS they are losing zero?

More specifically, they think it's the scope. But, there are lots of reasons why a zero moves that don't have anything to do with the scope failing.