“Working” light less basically means the light has less lens to air surfaces to navigate as it makes its way to your eye, which results in less aberrations and other distortions that affect clarity and image resolution. Both optics have a 5x zoom ratio and that’s important because the lower zoom ratio provides a high-quality image without working the light so much as a higher zoom ratio does. Both optics have some similar attributes which I’ll discuss first before discussing them individually. A 3.6x-18x magnification range, and a 5x-25x magnification range. That’s the reason I choose Leupold, among one or two other brands. In addition to that, the durability aspect needs to be there too, because I absolutely need the confidence that my riflescope will survive 8 days on my back in the mountains and still put bullets exactly where I want them, when I want them there under any circumstance. Weight is a big deal to me, as I spend a lot of time carrying my life around with me on my back. The Mark 5 line was meant to fill the customers’ needs by building a scope that shooters wanted without the rest of the fluff that adds costs and weight. The Mark 5 line of scopes are impressive in a lot of ways, and I was fortunate enough to be a part of the testing and evaluation process with the early models.
Well, Leupold listened, and stepped up to the plate this year with the Mark 5 line to meet the competition, and I think they absolutely crushed it. So, other manufacturers began filling the requests from precision rifle shooters with advanced features (advanced for the times) such as front focal plane reticles, illumination, more forgiving eyeboxes, and more elevation travel, among other things. The Mark 5 pair, the 3.6x – 18x in the foreground, and the 5x – 25x in the background.ĭuring the recent explosion in growth within the precision shooting community, Leupold was concentrating on a lot of defense contracts producing scopes that truly defying what was once thought to be impossible with regards to optical systems with the Mk 8 CQBSS, and the Mk 6 3x-18x. That scope still lives at Leupold as a testimony to the durability of Leupold products, and it still held zero. The rifle scope undoubtedly saved his life, as the piece of fragmentation was about 1” long with the diameter of a pencil and the optic kept that fragmentation from hitting him. One of my platoon mates’ Leupold took a direct hit from a piece of mortar fragmentation while he was carrying the rifle in a movement to contact. That proved to be an excellent decision as those replacements never lost zero, even after some horrific and serious run-ins with IED’s and indirect fire. My platoon was fortunate enough to receive a bunch of funding for updated gear for that deployment, and we elected to purchase 8x Leupold Mark 4 4.5x – 14x scopes to replace the tired and long since unreliable Unertl 10x scope that lived on our M40 A3’s. Fast forward to the year 2004 as I stepped off on a combat deployment to Iraq. That scope still tracks true, and is bombproof, in the literal sense. I still have that scope to this day, and I’ve since swapped the reticle to a TMR and changed out the MOA turrets to Milradian based adjustments. I bought my first serious precision rifle immediately after graduating sniper school way back in 1999, and on top of that rifle was the venerable Mark 4 3.5x – 10x with M1 turrets.
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