Thread: Leupold VX-5HD Firedot reticle issues

I was looking to set a VX-5HD up n a rifle today to help pass the lock down blues and on looking through the reticle i noticed that one bar of the duplex FD reticle was growing fur. I had this happen in a kahles scope about 20 years back that had a silver wire reticle. Rang Leupold / Nioa and they send send in in for a fix. Looked at my other one with the firedot reticle and bingo, same thing happening with it also but not as advanced. I live on the coast but...lots of people do and they should be 100% sealed. Apparently the firedot reticles differ from the non illuminated ones which are etched? Any others seeing this problem. Scopes are not new but a little disappoint to have it happen.