Originally Posted by
gunnermhr
Bashing a manufacture because you think you got a bad scope just isn't good practice. I probably own more Leupold scopes than you have guns, I had one that didn't track properly and I sent it back they made the repair and it has went from there to win many competitions. Leupold has sold many, many scopes that have gone on to winning more competitions than any of us can imagine. Are they the best scope on the market, no way! They are however probably the best scope on the market for the money.
If you aren’t happy with your Leupold just go to Wal-Mart buy yourself a $30 Trashco and be happy that you bought yourself a scope just as good as a Leupold and saved 200 bucks. I’ll keep buying Leupolds and other high end optics and take my chances.
More than likely I will just spend $200 or so in the future and get a Burris Fullfield II again that's way better than most of the decently priced Leupolds. Seems like it's better until you get into the VX-III line which is way more expensive. However, if it was between the $30 Tasco and the Leupold I'd for sure choose the $30 Tasco.
I will say I know a lot more guys with cheap scopes and have used 2 or 3 myself and I don't know many that have had failures. Not saying they are great just everyone I personally know has had a failure with a Leupold where as I know quite a few guys with cheap scopes as in $50-100 Simmons mostly and a couple Tasco's and Bushnells and not many of them have had failures.
I'm just saying I've had bad luck with mine. I would have chalked it up to having a lemon as I know every company makes lemons. However, it seems like it's more of a crappy quality scope when I only know 2 others with Leupold scopes and both have had exactly the same problem.
In my reading online I've read a lot of reports of people saying the VX-I isn't a very good scope. Why put out a pos scope and charge $250 for it? That's not a company I want to deal with. For $250 a scope should never ever have a issue.
As for you owning more Leupolds than I do guns you probably do. You wouldn't have to own very many Leupold scopes to own more than I do guns since I don't have many.