Leatherwood Hi-Lux

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William Suter

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I'm sure I may have added another scope for my clunker box but maybe I got lucky. LOL! I spent most of last evening and a few hours this morning looking at scopes for the Ruger I just bought. Needed to be max power 14-16X max and a 1" tube, nothing Tactical. You'd think that would be easy. So many scopes were Out of Stock or just out of my budget range as I really didn't want to spend $5-600 on a scope today. A club member owns a pawn shop and usually has a pretty good selection of middle of the road scopes so I went looking there before ordering something on line. After looking at everything he had, nothing much was interesting me other than this Leatherwood. I know better but in was NIB, 4-16 with side focus and a 1" tube. I looked through it for several minutes and I must say, it was very clear through out the power range. He sold it to me CHEAP! I have no idea how or if its gonna hold up to 22-250 recoil but hoping it will hold up long enough to let me gather my funds up enough to buy a quality scope then I may move it over to my 22 mag. If its still functioning. I have a box full of used scopes but there are a few in the box that need to be junked. I just don't remember which ones. Maybe I should just throw them all away. The Leatherwood is plenty bright and clear enough for a hunting rifle and hopefully it will hold zero. If it doesn't I'm not out a lot, just will feel really stupid. Nothing new here, LOL!

I almost hate to ask, but have any of you tried the Hi-Lux scopes? If you don't want to respond, I fully understand.:)
 
No experience with them. Never seen one in person. The only time I even heard about them was a bunch of years back when I was really into researching muzzleloader loads. Some dude Toby Bridges was really promoting the scope line. Honestly I probably wouldn’t remember the guy’s name in most cases. But he gave me the impression that he knows everything, and he knows it better than anybody else! Lol. I also figured he was pushing the line of scopes because they’re the scope company that sponsored him? I don’t think I’ve seen the guy’s name or the scope’s name since, until you posted this question.

I guess none of this helps you at all? Shoot with it and let us know how it performs. It may surprise you.
 
I'm not in to deep on this scope and knew going into it that it for sure wasn't a top end optic so if it fails......it fails. I didn't want to spend a lot on optics or use one of my junk box scopes until I shoot the rife. The better it shoots, the better the glass. I already have plans to move it over to my 22 mag in the near future.
 
I got to try out the Leatherwood today. First at 50 then to 100yds. I must say for a $100 scope it wasn't a total failure. At 50yds it was about 4" low and an inch right on the first shot. Gave it some up and over and 2nd shot was in the bull. Took it to 100yds and was just a little high, maybe an inch and about the same left. Two clickies down and two right and all my shots were centered. So, it does what you tell it to do and nice firm audible clicks as well. Now the cons, it isn't very clear. Not terrible but I wish it was a little better. You can see bullet holes easy enough but just a little fuzzy. I'm sure it will be replaced with a better quality scope soon but I thought for $100 is wasn't really that bad. As soon as I get a replacement I think I'll put this on my 22 Mag. Should work fine for that little rifle.
 
I ended up putting a Leupold on my Ruger and put the Leatherwood on my 22Magnum. In all honesty, for a $100 scope I can't complain. Granted its not the clearest scope i have but I was able to see my 22 caliber bullet holes at 100yds without any trouble at all. The adjustments seem to be spot on. Give it one click and it moved 1/4" and very audible. Sounded like a stick breaking, LOL. It won't get beat up on the 22 mag so it may just stay there.
 
Sometimes you get lucky. I took a Tasco 2-7 WC in trade. When I bought my dad a Win Featherweight 270 I put that scope on until I could afford something better. It would move POI an inch going from 2 to 7 power. He loved it and shot deer with it until he couldn't hunt. He never took it off 2x and never killed a deer over 50 yards.
 
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