RE: leupold price?
Dayna,
That is the going price for those scopes...it is hard to find that scope at a lower price because of the reticle. The reticle makes it somewhat of a specialty item. Therefore no one dealer sells enough of them to justify steeply discounting that model.
However, if a standard reticle was exceptable you can easily beat that price. In fact the scope w/standard reticle routinely sells for 500-525$ on ebay brand new.