I own both and sincerely I will have to go for Zeiss. It is a good rugged "american made" scope that has a very good light transmission.

Leupold are good scopes but I been hearing some ackward complaints in the range about the VX-III being made with a 3 piece tube instead of a solid one piece (I don't know this for a fact, but look at other posts in this forum).

Has anyone have any fact based opinion about that?