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<blockquote data-quote="sp6x6" data-source="post: 1882005" data-attributes="member: 21869"><p>I have a vari II that was my Dads on his 300 wby.It fogged, I sent in it was fixed,scope already old.I thought what service,young and no money.As my interest grew this pushed me to a 340 wby when I was 20.This had some basic vari II,that I shot out to 500 yrds.Then I got one of the first,vari 3 tact,black ring.I had a shooting coach in school/gun nut.Only person with computer I knew. He did load work and drop charts for me.This changed my success on mtn.That scope is at least 18 years old,spent its life on 340 wby,that first year I had shoot 400 unbraked shots. Have those on 6# 325 wsm,many years,my rifles get used by me,my son and friends.I have had opportunity to hunt many years 50 days,its my passion.I never had the money to put to optics like scope and never had problems.So when I had custom 338NM done,it got a mark4,thats 10 years ago,rifle is 7-2oz.Which many claim yo cant shoot.My smith ,that is very well known,said scope might last few months.Its still going.I shot a 6'' group with rifle,witness by Tom M. on this forum who has shot mutiple world records in 1000 Bench,Penn style. After the success I had I wanted a bit more features for my practice 338nm,I looked at many,this still is a heavy back up for me.I considered NF,USO,S&B,Kahles,but I caught a sale and had many points at Cabelas and ended with Mark5,5-25x56.My hunting has taken me on rough boat rides in AK,to many horse hunts,with pack animals upside down in beaver ponds,to hard core wheeling in my jeep,and hard falls.My rifles get used and abused.My swaro els are silver worn,no hawk,no swaro badging,bridge plastic gone.I use my gear.For every bash on here I could post a trophy picture taken with leupold.Now if I start having problems with them Ill let you know.Im disappointed that my March,losses clarity past 20x and has picky parallex at that range also.My cheaper Mark 5 is better.Im surprised my Kowa 554 matched my 20 year old leupold,but is smaller and more packable at double cost.And im really upset that after dropping my Terrapin after 3 years,the quote was $1200 to send in at that goes towards,fix but could cost more.And no guarantee. I do like the low profile turrets,ZS,size,weight of march,and in real world hunting im rarely shooting past 20x. I rolled my jeep recent,with my packer so well see how she shoots...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sp6x6, post: 1882005, member: 21869"] I have a vari II that was my Dads on his 300 wby.It fogged, I sent in it was fixed,scope already old.I thought what service,young and no money.As my interest grew this pushed me to a 340 wby when I was 20.This had some basic vari II,that I shot out to 500 yrds.Then I got one of the first,vari 3 tact,black ring.I had a shooting coach in school/gun nut.Only person with computer I knew. He did load work and drop charts for me.This changed my success on mtn.That scope is at least 18 years old,spent its life on 340 wby,that first year I had shoot 400 unbraked shots. Have those on 6# 325 wsm,many years,my rifles get used by me,my son and friends.I have had opportunity to hunt many years 50 days,its my passion.I never had the money to put to optics like scope and never had problems.So when I had custom 338NM done,it got a mark4,thats 10 years ago,rifle is 7-2oz.Which many claim yo cant shoot.My smith ,that is very well known,said scope might last few months.Its still going.I shot a 6'' group with rifle,witness by Tom M. on this forum who has shot mutiple world records in 1000 Bench,Penn style. After the success I had I wanted a bit more features for my practice 338nm,I looked at many,this still is a heavy back up for me.I considered NF,USO,S&B,Kahles,but I caught a sale and had many points at Cabelas and ended with Mark5,5-25x56.My hunting has taken me on rough boat rides in AK,to many horse hunts,with pack animals upside down in beaver ponds,to hard core wheeling in my jeep,and hard falls.My rifles get used and abused.My swaro els are silver worn,no hawk,no swaro badging,bridge plastic gone.I use my gear.For every bash on here I could post a trophy picture taken with leupold.Now if I start having problems with them Ill let you know.Im disappointed that my March,losses clarity past 20x and has picky parallex at that range also.My cheaper Mark 5 is better.Im surprised my Kowa 554 matched my 20 year old leupold,but is smaller and more packable at double cost.And im really upset that after dropping my Terrapin after 3 years,the quote was $1200 to send in at that goes towards,fix but could cost more.And no guarantee. I do like the low profile turrets,ZS,size,weight of march,and in real world hunting im rarely shooting past 20x. I rolled my jeep recent,with my packer so well see how she shoots... [/QUOTE]
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