Leupold?

[Scouty]

I'm in complete agreement of your accessment of Leupold's line up. The VX-Freedom 3-9X33 is a wonderful optic, glass wise. But the reticle and turrets are terrible. I'm about to swap out my VX with the new Athlon SPR Heras: glass just as good, great reticle and awesome turrets. Only down side is that it could substitute for a hand help impact devise! Thing's a tank at 23.4 ounces. The Freedom weighs a scant 12 ounces.

I looked at the US Optics T-12, but that doesn't come in SFP. And neither does the Vector Veyron as far as I could tell. And I doubt either of those brands turrets would equal whats on the Athlon.

Maven makes an interesting low power scope, but it only focuses down to 25 yds and the reticle is not airgun friendly.

US Optics makes that scope in SFP but only a duplex reticle. Pretty sure Veyron does as well but my internet connections has just slowed way down and I can't confirm. Discovery might as well.

 

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That's the thing, there are nice scopes out there but some of them are so hefty! I have a Maven rs.3 and the thing is like a very small baseball bat

 

[orangeokie]

I've been lurking around for a long while and I see a lot of mention of scopes like Athlon and Discovery and Arken and Vortex and there are a few others that seem real popular, but I don't see anyone mentioning Leupold. I have been into air guns forever, but not so much as rimfire guns on which my favorite has always been Leupold. I know mostly the parallax on most of the Leupolds will either be set at 100 yards, or an adjustable not go low enough, which is why I usually use the EFR models which go low enough for airguns so I thought I'd see more of them around.

That being said, I do only have a couple of side adjustable scopes in leupold and the more I am getting into airguns the more I like the side knob as opposed to the adjustment on the objective bell.

Is it just the cost, or the limited models that adjust to a close enough range that make them rare here?

For this group yes, I think it is cost. Lots of complaints registered in many threads about something being too expensive. Leupold is upper echelon glass for sure, IMHBAO. I have several loopy scopes on my centerfires but use cheaper scopes on my PCPs because I am basically just a plinker and a hunter. I really like my new Arken EPL4 and my AirHawk. Also just bought an Optisan from a member here and like it so much I put it on my FX Crown. The length of the tube in front of and behind the turrets allowed me to position it better and still clear the magazine with my offset mounts. Gonna put the Arken on my Air Wolf Daystate I just bought from a member here.

 

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I hear a lot of people saying "I put expensive scopes on my firearms, but for just an airgun I'll use the budget scopes" The funny thing is that most of these airguns are way more expensive than their firearms, and they actually shoot the airguns more often.

 

[boscoebrea]

That is true, maybe because the powder burners are being shot at longer distances.

 

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I surmised that may be the case, but I tend to deal mostly in rimfires and most of them are not being shot a whole lot further than air guns.