NorthJeff: I' ve been thinking the same thing, but I don' t have a non-Leupold scope to check it with. But that may change: I' ve been eyeing one of those Kahles 3-9 scopes with the hashmarks for different distances (DPS or something like that). If the problem turns out to be the scope, Leupold owes me a lot of money for wasted ammo!