Frozen Leupold 36, dust on crosshairs
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jackie schmidt
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It is very difficult to keep any dust off of a reticle, even in the cleanest room.
The problem is there is no way to remove any particles that might fall on it. If you ever saw one of those 36x reticles out of a scope you would recognize the problem. Your just look at it wrong and “poof”, it breaks.
Back when I was freezing scopes, I had a little plastic case that I would emmediatly put the reticle in. You had to work fast the instant you removed the Ocular Lens.
Leupold might put a new reticle in for about $85 if you can’t live with it.
The problem is there is no way to remove any particles that might fall on it. If you ever saw one of those 36x reticles out of a scope you would recognize the problem. Your just look at it wrong and “poof”, it breaks.
Back when I was freezing scopes, I had a little plastic case that I would emmediatly put the reticle in. You had to work fast the instant you removed the Ocular Lens.
Leupold might put a new reticle in for about $85 if you can’t live with it.
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Thanks Jackie..... I can live with it just fine as long as it doesn't migrate around 
I live just down the road from Leupold so I've toured their plant. I useta' keep a little baggie of their fine crosshair reticle wire in my wallet to show people, most people over 30 couldn't see it.
I live just down the road from Leupold so I've toured their plant. I useta' keep a little baggie of their fine crosshair reticle wire in my wallet to show people, most people over 30 couldn't see it.
jackie schmidt
New member
Thanks Jackie..... I can live with it just fine as long as it doesn't migrate around
I live just down the road from Leupold so I've toured their plant. I useta' keep a little baggie of their fine crosshair reticle wire in my wallet to show people, most people over 30 couldn't see it.
The 36x reticle were .0015. I never could figure out how they got that darned dot on them.
Cecil Tucker told me that a Leupold 36x reticle was like a beating heart. It did not like being removed.
John Kielly
Shari's fan club
Poop from trained gnats.
I watched them do it......
Prior to that I'd been talking with Wally about putting mil dots on a fine crosshair and he said "I can't do that"....... and me, I'm arguing like a dumbass..... "can't you just daub some paint on there???"
Wow...
Luckily I didn't make him too mad
He a'splained me very nicely as how "a single piece of pigment would look like a boulder...."