Ivan the Butcher
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Today, on my way home from lunch with a friend I stopped at one of my favorite gun shops. On a shelf of used scopes, I spot a deal. a 3.5-10 40mm Leupold Veri-X III. Priced $218. I knew they would sell it to me for $200 OTD. I tried to get the salespeople to buy it for themselves, as I already have several extra good hunting scopes, but none of them were interested! So, I had to bring it home.
When I was looking it over at home, I removed the Butler Creek Lens caps and saw the tell-tail "Gold-Ring" was factory blackened. That told me it wasn't a normal Leupold, but actually an early model of Police/Military sniper scope. I have seen several, I have owned one and my oldest son still owns one.
It went from a $200 for a $400 scope to a $200 for a $1000-1200 Scope.
These are fixed parallax scopes, the Hunter models usually have 100 yard parallax. The Sniper models have 600-yard parallax. Based on the last one I sold, this will be no problem to move to someone who knows long-range shooting. MY first scope of this type and my son's came on trade-in Remington 308 PPS rifle from Ohio Agencies. They are not common in the civilian market.
Ivan
When I was looking it over at home, I removed the Butler Creek Lens caps and saw the tell-tail "Gold-Ring" was factory blackened. That told me it wasn't a normal Leupold, but actually an early model of Police/Military sniper scope. I have seen several, I have owned one and my oldest son still owns one.
It went from a $200 for a $400 scope to a $200 for a $1000-1200 Scope.
These are fixed parallax scopes, the Hunter models usually have 100 yard parallax. The Sniper models have 600-yard parallax. Based on the last one I sold, this will be no problem to move to someone who knows long-range shooting. MY first scope of this type and my son's came on trade-in Remington 308 PPS rifle from Ohio Agencies. They are not common in the civilian market.
Ivan
