About a month ago I compared the Zeiss Conquest 3.5x10x44 to the Leupold Vari X lll 3.5x10x40 and reported my findings on the various points I consider in a scope.The Zeiss won the bulk of these points and I bought two of them,one for a 243 night coyote gun and the other my favorite 7mm-08 deer rifle.Well the weather finially warmed up some and I got out and cleaned the bench off and broke trail down to my targets and did some shooting.I had sold off a Burris FF ll,two B&L' s(early models)B&L 3000 elite, and three Leupold Vari X ll' s.My goal was to upgrade to a Zeiss Conquest,B&L 4200 elite,and a couple Leupold Vari X lll' s,I shot the Leupolds and everything went well as I have learned to expect from that brand and I progressed to the first Zeiss.The first one behaved nicely and the 243 ended up printing a best of all times .552 group,it sent several bullets into the same hole during shooting and I was thrilled with the conquest(when they are good they are very good,when they are bad, they are very BAD)On to the 7mm and here is where things got way bad,the adjustments were crazy with one click moving the prescribed 1/4" and the next click moving 1" ! The gun has always been very accurate and now it shot patterns instead of groups,I checked tightness of everything and continued........It was randomly shooting high/low/right/and left,it wouldn' t hold poi and tracking was like a sick joke.It was after careful sighting while I was letting the barrel cool that I noticed it was not parallex adjusted right at 100yds either!I pulled it off and decided to return it and get another Leupold,when I adjust a leupold at the bench the bullet holes track right along with the adjustments and give quite a feeling of confidance.The Zeiss is quite impressive in optics but the poi and tracking as well as parallex out of adjustment are just what the critics are complaining of on the forums so I guess I got one good and one bad.50% is not good odds so I think I will go back to a leupold on my deer rifle.Am I sorry I tried the Zeiss? No,and I will use the good one till it gives me reason to distrust it,the groups that gun was shooting were perfect.Will I buy another?Probably not now till I see how the one I have continues to hold poi and lasts.They are a new scope and not tried and proven like Leupold is so I' ll take more of a wait and see approach at this point.Haven' t recieved my elite 4200 yet and I will see what I think of that next week.I call em' like I see em' so I had a winner and a loser in the actual gun shooting porition of my scope testing with the Conquests.Both Leupolds shot so far have been perfect in every respect.