They "may" be over rated to you, BUT i built a rifle about 1980 to crawl through the alders and swamps of SC Alaska (including Kodiak and it's neighboring islands) hunting brown bears... Istayed in the bush weeks at a time in all kinds of weather, living in a tent... Some days it would be very cold, snow, and then rain, and everything inbetween...

I bought a Leupold scope and put it on that rifle, and to this day it's still on it, working perfectly... I haven't even had to resight it in all these years of use and abuse... I've dropped brown bears, moose, caribou and all kinds of other big game with it,and it's "still" 100% reliable to this day...

Now, i have to say my Leupold isNOT over rated at all, knowing what it's been through over all of those years, the falls it's taken, and i've put my life on the line more than a few times, going into heavy cover tracking wounded bears with that rifle...

It's "track record" in reliability alone has made it a good deal, and it's not the only Leupold i own.

I've yet to have a Leupold let me down in the bush!

DM