has anyone bought this scope &
what do you think about it..?

Have the 3-9X40 and 2-7X40 and love them both.

I hear very favorable reports on the new Redfield line made by Leupold. They probably represent the best bang for the buck on the market right now. That said, there is no advantage in using the oversized 50mm objective as compared to the physically more managable 40mm objective for the 3-9x scope.

I just sent a 4x12 back. It did not hold zero on a 300 Win Mag. Haven't got it back yet, so I don't know how they handled it.

I have the 3-9x40. Very entry level optically and also very agricultural in appearance. It certainly seems solid, reliable and outstanding value for money.

Begno, please do report on how they take care of you. This is a big part of the Leupold/Redfield reputation. I have the 3-9 on a .270 WSM.

Code4: I must say that is a very sensible list of cartridges in your signature line!

My bad fellas,

Sent the Redfield back, they checked it out, nothing wrong? Decided to give ole trusty 300 WM a thorough cleaning and found out it had considerable fouling. I hadn't shot it in years and lost track of the round count I guess. Clean rifle shot extremely well. So, I want to correct the record, nothing wrong with the Redfield on my 300 WM.

Does anyone know how these scopes would hold up on a 375 H&H rifle?

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Originally posted by Code4:
I have the 3-9x40. . . .very agricultural in appearance.

I noted quite a splash of red on these scopes. I didn't realize it was Massey-Ferguson red; or is it Case-IH red instead?

I would agree that for the same money Leupold could have made them a little more conventionally attractive, but they had to do something to cause buyers to believe that their near-identical Leupold-branded Rifleman series was somehow worth the extra money. I suppose their marketing geniuses decided that the purposfully downgraded cosmetics was the best way to go about addressing the differential.

I bought 3 of the 2x7 variables the first day I saw an ad announcing them. (I checked their website to read the guarantee before sending them my money.)

So far all three have done very well by me, and I haven't had any need to consider sending any of them back for repair. I'm glad I bought them when I did. I got them for $125 each, retail, delivered, as part of their introductory pricing.

touchdown88, I used the Redfield 3 x 9 x 40 on my Sako 375 H & H and hunted last month in Africa and it held up great. I took several animals with it.

A true value in scopes I believe. So far less than 40 rounds throught it but it is doing well.

Jim

Seems for a few bucks more the new VX-1 might be the way to go.

I WOULD wait just a bit to buy a new redfield. They are coming with a new line of neat scopes called the redfield revenge. They look to have better optics and more versatile features like resettable turrets for about the same price as todays models. I'm thinking todays models will go on sale soon.....could be neat stuff but I wonder with all the features if they'll be american made.

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Originally posted by kraky:
I WOULD wait just a bit to buy a new redfield. They are coming with a new line of neat scopes called the redfield revenge. They look to have better optics and more versatile features like resettable turrets for about the same price as todays models. I'm thinking todays models will go on sale soon.....could be neat stuff but I wonder with all the features if they'll be american made.

Leupold's marketing department (who are obviously Mitt Romney-style marketing geniuses that hunt "small varmints" in their liesure time) are always coming up with new, more superlative language to describe some meaningless modification in their scope line. My Vari-X II from 1965 still sits on the rifle it was purchased for and is every bit as good as the current production, regardless of phony advertising hype like "diamond coat" and "index-matched lenses".

It is, however, wise advice to wait for the "improved" Redfields to come out just in case there are some close-out prices available on the old ones. I'm waiting to snag some of the soon-to-be obsolete VX-I's and VX-II's if a closeout occurs.

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touchdown88, I used the Redfield 3 x 9 x 40 on my Sako 375 H & H and hunted last month in Africa and it held up great. I took several animals with it.

Thanks. I had a Burris 3-9x on my 375 and blew the internals out on it 3 days before my Once-in-a-Lifetime moose here in Utah. Needless to say, that turned me off on their scopes and the rifle has sat scopeless for the last few years. I think I'll wait for the new ones to come out and buy a discounted 'old one'.

You guys holding out for "close outs" may be waiting a long time. Why would they dump any of their scope lines? Right now Redfield needs to expand their product line, not shrink it.

Im thinking seriously about getting one of the Revolutions for a 308 project. There was a time when their more outstanding features and affordability were carried by a rather obscure company called Weaver, you may have heard of them, but that was a long time ago. Their quality has suffered since then and anything they make now worth having easily exceeds the cost of an entry level Leupold. I think it is about time someone made a scope with more than the usual 3-3.25" of eye relief that is affordable to us average schlocks.

Stonecreek,

As I recall the VX-I came out shortly after Bushnell introduced "Rainguard" and their elite line (one of my personal favorite scopes), and that was also when the VX-II was peddled as having the "NEW" Multicoat 4..

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that todays VX-II is basicaly the old one with Leupolds answer to Rainguard, and the VX-I is essentialy the old VX-II. With the redfield line in the mix now I could see them possibly droping the VX-I and the Rifleman and keeping Leupold a step above the Redfields, but who knows??

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You guys holding out for "close outs" may be waiting a long time. Why would they dump any of their scope lines? Right now Redfield needs to expand their product line, not shrink it.

"Closeouts" may or may not occur, but I got a really great price on a VX-III from a wholesaler when Leupold introduced the VX-3 to supplant them.

It is not about expanding or contracting the Redfield line. It is about marketing. From time to time, regardless of need, manufacturers "update" their product lines to refresh their marketing appeal. Some people think they have to have the latest, and if a product is no longer offered they regard it as obsolete. So when Leupold "drops" the Vari-X II and introduces the exact instrument as the "VX-I", lots of people feel as if they have to switch scopes (and some think that they have to get a Vari-X-II while they still can because there "must" have been something better about them because they were "older".)

Bottom line is, Leupold will "update" their Redfield line to stimulate sales, so those models that become "obsolete" might be available at a relative bargain for short while.

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Originally posted by Wstrnhuntr:

As I recall the VX-I came out shortly after Bushnell introduced "Rainguard" and their elite line (one of my personal favorite scopes), and that was also when the VX-II was peddled as having the "NEW" Multicoat 4..

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that todays VX-II is basicaly the old one with Leupolds answer to Rainguard, and the VX-I is essentialy the old VX-II. With the redfield line in the mix now I could see them possibly droping the VX-I and the Rifleman and keeping Leupold a step above the Redfields, but who knows??

The old Vari-X II is the new VX-I. Identical in every way. The VX-I never really "came out" it was a rebadged current model that allowed the new improved model to wear the VX-II moniker.

The new VX-II has better low light performance (multi-coat 4?)than the Vari-X II or VX-I as per my testing W/VX-I, Vari-X II & VX-II in 3-9X40 from an elevated stand as the sun went down. A piece of orange suveyors tape tied to a sapling @ 240yds. This was in a wooded enviornment overlooking a 15 acre logged area. (not clear cut)

Oh yeah, the VX-II has 1/4 minute clicks while the other 2 discussed here are both "friction" adjustments.

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Originally posted by wildcat junkie:

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Originally posted by Wstrnhuntr:

As I recall the VX-I came out shortly after Bushnell introduced "Rainguard" and their elite line (one of my personal favorite scopes), and that was also when the VX-II was peddled as having the "NEW" Multicoat 4..

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that todays VX-II is basicaly the old one with Leupolds answer to Rainguard, and the VX-I is essentialy the old VX-II. With the redfield line in the mix now I could see them possibly droping the VX-I and the Rifleman and keeping Leupold a step above the Redfields, but who knows??

The old Vari-X II is the new VX-I. Identical in every way. The VX-I never really "came out" it was a rebadged current model that allowed the new improved model to wear the VX-II moniker.

The new VX-II has better low light performance (multi-coat 4?)than the Vari-X II or VX-I as per my testing W/VX-I, Vari-X II & VX-II in 3-9X40 from an elevated stand as the sun went down. A piece of orange suveyors tape tied to a sapling @ 240yds. This was in a wooded enviornment overlooking a 15 acre logged area. (not clear cut)

Oh yeah, the VX-II has 1/4 minute clicks while the other 2 discussed here are both "friction" adjustments.

According to the Leupold webbsite the "Rifleman" is the same as the old Vari X-II. Apparently they had a two piece tube and I think they stated that the new VX-I is one piece. The newer VX-II is a one piece tube with multi-coat 4.

I ordered one of the Redfields for my 308 project.. Looking forward to checking it out.