Leupold CDS

[Peakbagger46]

Well, a VX 2 3-9X40 followed me home from the Cabela's bargain cave yesterday. Very slight ring marks but couldn't pass on it for $175 bucks! The glass seems awesome, just as good as my ten year old VX III.

Anyway, I like the MOA turrent it came with but wanted to see if anyone out there has any good or bad experience with ordering a custom CDS dial for their chosen load. The paper it came with said you could choose a turrent with one or two revolutions marked. How far will each design get you out to?

This is going on my deer/elk gun, a Sako A7 in 30-06 shooting 180g handloads. I hunt up close but enjoy playing out to 500 or 600y sometimes.

 

[eastbank]

i think you will be good to go, but it may not be dead nuts on and there are a few things that will effect it. i have a 4.5x14 leupold cds and have it on a 7mm mag with a custon turret for the 139gr bullet at 3150 and it rated out to 750 yards and i have used it on deer out to about 500 yards from a good rest with no wind blowing and useing a very good range finder, its basicly like useing clicks with the range marked on the turret so you don,t have to count the clicks. but i found on smaller targets i would just as soon run the click by counting. as you will find out there is more to long range shooting than just turning the turret. good luck and pratice, eastbank.

 

[jmr40]

The glass will be much better than your old VX-III. Those were discontinued years ago and replaced with the much better VX-3 and in 2012 the entire VX line of scopes were upgraded. Your current VX-2 is essentially a pre-2012 VX-3.

My brother has that scope on a Tikka 223, it works great for him, but I can't answer about details.

I just bought the same scope about a week ago from the classified ads on another gun forum. It was still NIB with the info to get a free dial. I didn't get as good a deal as you, but saved almost $100 off the regular price.

I haven't mounted it yet and will call Leupold for advice when I get around to mounting it. I'm leaning towards getting it set up for only 1 revolution. If I'm reading the literature right one revolution comes with a zero stop. Two revolutions does not and I'm betting 1 revolution will get me farther than I can shoot. I think I'd rather have the zero stop.

 

[Peakbagger46]

That's good to know about the zero stop. I cover a lot of ground for deer and elk (a lot of nasty brush too) so the zero stop would be important to me.

That is a really nice scope, east bank! I wanted something that tops out at 12 or 14, but I don't have the funds right now. Oh well, 3X is nice to have hunting aspen stands anyway. 500 is pushing it for 9X, but I've done it before.

 

[eastbank]

9x will do fine at 500 yrds if you know the range for sure and have a very good rest and have your AO adjusted for the range your shooting. i shot a lot of groundhogs at close to that range with a older leupold 7.5x with AO on a heavy barreled rem 700V in 6mm. eastbank.

 

[Peakbagger46]

I've taken some good pokes at 500 at 9X with a Savage .223 without an AO. Making sure my eye is dead centered with the scope of course. Not ideal but one can make due.

My rangefinder does well out to 1600 under cloud cover. Free to me so I can't complain.