With great respect of the men and women who work at the Leupold factory who gives us the "real thing" i will perform this little test over a period of time...
Since the scope costs less than a tank of gas for my Triumph Bonneville (which i cant ride now anyway) i can't garantee that the scope will survive :biggrin:
First we pretend being on a hunt in early fall- it is quite warm weather, and in the afternoon a heavy warm rain is pouring down

Back home in the cabin i change to dry clothes, get warm food and a cup of coffe- fall asleep and i forget the rifle on the front porch
Over night a cold front comes in from North with temperatures of 22 degrees centigrade below freezing point

And this is what i se next morning

Believe it or not- the light is still working

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unfortunately i drop the scope in the snow

To get the scope clean from snow- i use warm water

 

Now there is wate on the inside of the front lens, and water drops can be seen in the tube and on the reticle

So in order to get it to dry out i let it spend the day on the stowe

Now i can se through it again....
Tomorrow i will test it on the shooting range

 

Like the old sayin'... "if it too good to be true..." thanks for the write up though!

 

I think you should've sighted it in and then did these things so you could see if it'd hold its settings. Just my thoughts, though.

 

It will go through rigorous tests on the range- and get more hard times- believe me: plans are made:biggrin:

 

Alright, I wasn't trying to undermine you just posted what I thought. I wonder if it'll hold up since I've seen one or two things hold up better than their non Chinese counter parts. So far it seems pretty good if the water drops went away and the LED still works.

 

I don`t see the problem here. The Bluing stayed on ,didn`t it?...........................

Or,put another way.... It was designed as a "fake " so it passed all the required tests. Your testing proved that.

 

Good golly man that was some torture test.

 

Hang on boys, this crazy Dane ain't done yet! This test will definitely put this thing through a world of hurt...

 

Great test so far! A whole day on the stove is good...shakes out the plastic bits properly:biggrin:

 

Thanks for posting the fake information.
How do you like the American style frozen pizza? :biggrin:

 

The "American style" frozen pizza is emergency food when i haven't got time to make proper dinner- quite OK though
I am very fond of Pizza hut .....
here the scope is next to "the real thing"

Now i know why there is vercro on the inside of the rings that are normally supplied with the Chinese scopes:
The tube measure is under 30 mm- so i put tape on the tube to secure it in the rings

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"Test bed" will be a 6,5X55 Sweden Mauser with a heavy match barrel

 

To se if the scope was "tracking" i shot this square and returned to the starting point without any problems

The "start and finish"

20 shots with altering largest/ smallest magnification

And some "just for fun shooting"

 

Manufacturing of a "final test gun"

A Husqvarna stock, a broomhandle and som minor parts

 

The final test:biggrin:

A Chinese sniper

.338 Lapua Magnum

The "Saving Privare Ryan shot"

"Parts" scattered all over

 

Please do the same to the real Leupold so we can see the difference!

 

Now that got one Chinese "Fake Leupold" of the street:biggrin:

 

Y'know I gotta say that I wouldn't sneer at putting one of those on my rifle after you've beat crap out of it, froze it, soaked it and you can still use it to shoot repeatable groups...
I say worth the $70 and then some.

 

Dansken- great job!!! Thoroughly enjoyed reading this. I'm going to have to send the link to this for some friends.



Ahh BJ, our misguided friend. Notice the part about water getting into the scope? How long before it fogs up INSIDE the scope just when you need it? If water can make it through, then water vapor surely will at some point. My guess is the light transmission is WAY below a loopy too. And I doubt if it would be as repeatable on a heavy recoiling rifle like a short mag or RCM.

As for me, I prefer a scope that survives a test like this

 

It might be worth 70 US$- but it is American jobs that go down the drain beacause of this Chinese stuff floating across the border...
If they made "their own" brands and called them "***********" it would be OK with me, but selling it as a Leupold i fraud in my world...
Lots of poor s.o.b.s get cheated every week here when this **** is put for sale as "the real thing" on the internet
I prefer the REAL Leupolds and European scopes any day in a week...
Aren't you guys worried about this situation at all?

 

Yes I am and Leupold is the only scope I buy. So thanks for the heads up and now I know what to look for.

 

Absolutely!
I think it's freakin' pathetic that they put someone else's name on their product.
Fraud is too nice a word for it.

 

Thanks for all your time

 

Really liked your dogs Dansken 'Red' and 'Blue' flavored

 

Thanks for going through all this and sharing the results with us. It is indeed sad seeing such fraud taking place.

Tell us about your dogs.

 

Dansken,
Super report! When you had water leakage inside the scope, I thought that made them "Kaput"? Anytime I suspect a scope has gone bad for me I do the freezer test. Then when it thaws out, if there is condensation on the inside I toss it. I'm a big fan of Leupold, Bushnell, Nikon, and others also. Where I have my basic issue is I've been "taken" on
a bunch of "used" scopes. Won't buy anymore used scopes. I bought period correct scopes for some of my lever actions and was duped each time.
358 Win

PS: Love your dogs! What breed are they? I've got a 106 pound Golden Retriever named Moose and a Cairn mix at 25 pounds named Cole. The 25 pound Cole will eat Moose for lunch, but then, Golden Retrievers are not nasty. Cole might be 25 pounds but 21 pounds of it is heart and ego.

You sure killed the heck out of that pumpkin!!!!!!

 

Dansken,
Super report! When you had water leakage inside the scope, I thought that made them "Kaput"? Anytime I suspect a scope has gone bad for me I do the freezer test. Then when it thaws out, if there is condensation on the inside I toss it. I'm a big fan of Leupold, Bushnell, Nikon, and others also. Where I have my basic issue is I've been "taken" on
a bunch of "used" scopes. Won't buy anymore used scopes. I bought period correct scopes for some of my lever actions and was duped each time.
358 Win

PS: Love your dogs! What breed are they? I've got a 106 pound Golden Retriever named Moose and a Cairn mix at 25 pounds named Cole. The 25 pound Cole will eat Moose for lunch, but then, Golden Retrievers are not nasty. Cole might be 25 pounds but 21 pounds of it is heart and ego.

You sure killed the heck out of that pumpkin!!!!!!

Don't trash those old scopes. Usually that can be sent back to the manufacturer rebuilt and re-sealed for a fraction of the cost of a new one. I have an old Redfield wide field illuminator that I had done a few years ago. Even though Redfield was out of business. I found a guy that had bought everything from Redfield and was rebuilding the scopes. I think I paid about $50 to have the scope rebuilt.