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Re: bought my first nikon scope
« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2008, 10:41:47 AM »
Leupold makes a great scope. I think I have 3 right now. I have one on my Weatherby 300WM that I saved for a whole year and bought when I was 13. Got that VX2 new with it the same day. Last year, 25 years later, probably 1500-2000 hard pounding rounds later, untold western Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Alaska, mountain miles later, it fogged. I e-mailed Leupy. They said, "Sure! Send it back!" A couple weeks later I got it back in brand new condition, polished out, new objective lense, re-charged and re-sealed. You can't beat that.

But the topic at hand is whether or not Nikon is a good price alternative. Nikon is an excellent price alternative. I like Leupold better, but I completely trust my Nikons, and will continue to buy them.
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Re: bought my first nikon scope
« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2008, 11:58:20 AM »
Leupold makes a great scope. I think I have 3 right now. I have one on my Weatherby 300WM that I saved for a whole year and bought when I was 13. Got that VX2 new with it the same day. Last year, 25 years later, probably 1500-2000 hard pounding rounds later, untold western Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Alaska, mountain miles later, it fogged. I e-mailed Leupy. They said, "Sure! Send it back!" A couple weeks later I got it back in brand new condition, polished out, new objective lense, re-charged and re-sealed. You can't beat that.

But the topic at hand is whether or not Nikon is a good price alternative. Nikon is an excellent price alternative. I like Leupold better, but I completely trust my Nikons, and will continue to buy them.
There is definitely life outside of Leupold.
Good choice, Nikon Monarch for half the price of Leupold and better glass.
Too many stories about Leupolds that failed and have to be sent back for me to trust a major hunt to them.
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Re: bought my first nikon scope
« Reply #17 on: July 31, 2008, 02:13:55 PM »
All good....just what one perfers.  Me...I like my Burris Signatures.  Even my son does who has a Nikon.  He loves his Nikon but admits mine is clearer.
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