by Jim in Houston » Sun Oct 28, 2018 2:29 pm
I have fired hundreds of 450 BM rounds and a hundreds more through my .30-06 with my VX-R 3-9x with the Firedot Ballistic Reticle with no problems related to reliability of the Firedot. I would call Leupold. They are very responsive and you may just have a defective scope.
One problem I have had is that if you leave the battery in the scope with the Firedot turned off, it tends to weaken the spring that pushes the battery against the contacts so that the dot will not reliably illuminate. I temporarily solved this problem by putting a paper spacer under the cap on the battery compartment, but the permanent solution was a new cap from Leupold and removing the battery, whenever the rifle was not in use.
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