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NF NX8 vs Leupold Mark 5
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<blockquote data-quote="Paladin300" data-source="post: 2824901" data-attributes="member: 115299"><p>I am not saying they don't fail. I have just not had one fail and I have owned dozens. I have only had maybe a half dozen ever fail. Two were repaired and one replaced. The other two I can remember were out of warranty when they failed. They were a S&B klassic, got it back in a week still running it on 338 win mag Wby Mark V, a Japanese made Pentax Light Seeker 2, an IOR Valdada, (Both were out of warranty), an Athlon Midas Tac (a chip in the lens (replaced in a week), and a Bauch & Lomb 25 years ago that was repaired and sold. I have sent a couple of VX IIIs back to Leupold for service and to replace a reticle. Both took less than a month to get back, two weeks if memory serves me well. If I had to guess? I would say there are probably more Leupolds out there than any three or four other brands combined. Many of them 20 years old or more and still getting it done. I would love to know what the percentage is for every brand sold versus the number of repairs or failures they have? I will stand by my statement. Leupold makes a solid scope. The Mark V is tier 1.</p><p></p><p>I do know of one Leupold that failed on a hunt but it was not the fault of the scope. It was mounted crooked and the guy broke the windage knob trying to get it on target. </p><p></p><p>A lot of supposed scope malfunctions are user error. Even the best of us can miss. I killed five one year, one of those was off hand at just over 200 yards, DOA. I have bench rest groups that measure in the .0s. Hunted a deer for two years and had him one morning about 9:00 at 180 yards, scope was zeroed at 200. All I had to do was hold and squeeze on the big 140 class bruiser. The whole thing happened in about 5 seconds. In the excitement I held high and smoothed missed, not once but twice. It wasn't the scope. Buck fever can get the best of us. Killed one at 230 the next weekend same gun and scope.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" data-shortname=":grin:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paladin300, post: 2824901, member: 115299"] I am not saying they don’t fail. I have just not had one fail and I have owned dozens. I have only had maybe a half dozen ever fail. Two were repaired and one replaced. The other two I can remember were out of warranty when they failed. They were a S&B klassic, got it back in a week still running it on 338 win mag Wby Mark V, a Japanese made Pentax Light Seeker 2, an IOR Valdada, (Both were out of warranty), an Athlon Midas Tac (a chip in the lens (replaced in a week), and a Bauch & Lomb 25 years ago that was repaired and sold. I have sent a couple of VX IIIs back to Leupold for service and to replace a reticle. Both took less than a month to get back, two weeks if memory serves me well. If I had to guess? I would say there are probably more Leupolds out there than any three or four other brands combined. Many of them 20 years old or more and still getting it done. I would love to know what the percentage is for every brand sold versus the number of repairs or failures they have? I will stand by my statement. Leupold makes a solid scope. The Mark V is tier 1. I do know of one Leupold that failed on a hunt but it was not the fault of the scope. It was mounted crooked and the guy broke the windage knob trying to get it on target. A lot of supposed scope malfunctions are user error. Even the best of us can miss. I killed five one year, one of those was off hand at just over 200 yards, DOA. I have bench rest groups that measure in the .0s. Hunted a deer for two years and had him one morning about 9:00 at 180 yards, scope was zeroed at 200. All I had to do was hold and squeeze on the big 140 class bruiser. The whole thing happened in about 5 seconds. In the excitement I held high and smoothed missed, not once but twice. It wasn’t the scope. Buck fever can get the best of us. Killed one at 230 the next weekend same gun and scope.😁 [/QUOTE]
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