Ever noticed how the best game will come out in twilight hours? With Leupold Scopes with the Xtended Twilight Lens System you can have confidence in those low light shots. A priority to Leupold has always been light management to ensure that hunters have the brightness, clarity, and resolution needed to make the perfect shot. Leupold has taken light management to the next level with the groundbreaking Xtended Twilight Lens System. Leupold believes that the Xtended Twilight System offers the brightest, sharpest picture in twilight hours in the world. Leupold opened eyes with the extreme clarity, optimal contrast, and brightness of the Index Matched System. This system matches light transmission enhancing each lens’ coating in rifle scopes, based on the index refraction and glass type. The Xtended Twilight System goes further to enhance visibility by using Leupold Rifle Scopes index matched glass with wavelength specific lens coatings. Most scope Manufactures quote percentage of light transmission they usually mean 550nM, the green wavelength. This is where the human eye is most sensitive. the challenge in twilight conditions is that the green light disappears and the blue/violet light takes over. The human eye is handicapped to seeing blue/violet spectrum. If your scope is cutting too much out of it, soon you will not be able to see. The Xtended Twilight System places extra emphasis on matching coatings of glass indices to achieve the transmission of the blue/violet spectrum, without sacrificing the light transmission across the visual spectrum. The Leupold Vx-3 Rifle Scopes are scopes with The Xtended Twilight System. With The Xtended Twilight Lens System you can make those low light shots with confidence.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Leupold Tactical Mark 4 Scope Warning
Sunday, June 14th, 2009Leupold and Stevens has sent out an consumer alert warning that some of the Leupold Rifle Scopes finding there way to market are counterfeit. There seems to be an influx of counterfeit rifle scopes making there way into the US from the Peoples Republic of China according to the company. These scopes that look like Leupold Rifle Scopes and who may be outfitted with the trademarks of the company make them very hard to spot in the open market. In particular counterfeited Leupold Mark 4 riflescopes have arrived in the US with increasing frequency and have even been showing up at the company’s Beaver ton Oregon headquarters for service. Of course these products are not manufactured by Leupold and are not covered by the company’s Leupold Full Lifetime Guarantee.
Leupold employs serial number to track their rifle scopes during the lifetime of the product so if you suspect that you may have purchased on of the counterfeit Leupold Scopes please call the company so they can run the serial number for your, 1-800-Leupold.
Most of the scopes have been traced back to Hong Kong and have the Leupold Mark 4 Rifle Scope engraved on the bottom of the adjustment turret. The scopes do not appear to have the Leupold Medallion and according to the company all of their products will have this symbol. The company advises all Leupold riflescope buyers to only buy from authorized Leupold Scope dealers. A listing of those dealers can be found on there home site.