Thread: Zero stop

Hi Yogi, I have a Leupold VX6 3-18x50. I consider it to be the best scope I have owned to "look through". I put a CDS turret ( simply a MOA one not linked to any load so I could determine the drop adjustment for myself, and its simply brilliant on my 6.5x55 out to about 600 yards. Its accurate but 600 is probably morally too far to shoot a deer; 400 better max for the 6.5x55 IMO ) BUT it hasn't got a turret that moves "up and Down" externally to show you a verner with lines on it for each turn so I got a zero stop addition from Leupold. What a heap of afterthought crap! Have to glue the little ring inside the CDS dial with two sided tape ....lasted about two days so I glued it in place with epoxy....have to be very neat and don't use too much. It now works fine if the CDS turret does not come loose!. There are 3 little grub screws that hold it on to a "post" which does the adjustment. The post is barely 9mm in diameter and isn't large enough to fully support the CDS in the field...it comes loose ! Quite frankly it is a very cheap afterthought and not up to the standard of other scopes of the same price. A mate has a VXR , the turrets are higher but at least it doesn't need a zero stop as it has the one turn height lines so you can tell which turn your on....I like that better in the absence of a proper zero stop.