Originally Posted by
super_hunt54
I've got Monarchs on a couple of seriously hard kicking (500NE) rifles and there is absolutely no possible way your Ultimate kicks anywhere near as hard as they do. Never had an issue with scope blowups from them. No problems on my "make a grown man cry" TC with the .300WM barrel on it either. I just can't figure out what you are doing to blow scopes up on those Ultimates as they should be WAY under the recoil extremes that those Leupys should be able to withstand.
I really don't know and of course neither does Leupold. This second time was with less than 100 rounds, using Mark4 base and rings, all installed properly and torqued to specification. The scope did not move in the Mark4 rings. Maybe it could have been "that" specific scope. Leupold doesn't make the VX6 any more and production has ceased. They're switching over to the VX6-HD, which they offered to replace mine with but, I wouldn't get one until sometime in April at the earliest. I took the refund, as I have no confidence in the scope anymore.
As far as the Nikon Monarch scopes, I like them but, I've also sent two of them back for repair twice each. Both Monarchs were used on mass produced muzzleloaders only. I got rid of one and the other repaired Monarch set atop my dad's old 30-06, zeroed but never gets shot.