First of all I would like to say that I would not have paid the new price for this scope, I found it used and paid half price for it on Ebay.
It is a Leupold VXIII 4.5x14x40 Long Range 30 MM SF. It also has the Holland reticle. Daryl Holland is a riflesmith of some renown here in Oregon. I had met Daryl Holland above my house in the bottom of a dark, cold and snowy canyon one morning while we we were both hunting elk, we talked for a while and parted ways and I was amased at how small the world was.
When I found the Leupold on EBAY, I only had 18 minutes to make up my mind to purchase it. I waited until there was 45 seconds remaining and put in a bid and got it for half the price of the $1300. that he sells it for new. Leupold installs his reticles which are his registered intellectual property and Holland sells them thru his shop.
The reticle has mils on the top and side legs of the reticle for range finding and on the bottom leg has MOA numbered marks that give you the MOA holdover.
I eventually put the scope on my 25 LBT rifle to take advantage of the long range features, I sighted it in for 50 yards and then shot at my steel painted target and just recorded the drop on the MOA reticle out to 150 yards. Then I used Handloads.com's ballistic computer to see where my drop would be at 280 yard, I dialed in the setting and found I was at POI for 280 yards, it was that easy.
This is the 30 MOA reticle, mine is a 24 MOA reticle.
What I really like about the scope is that it has 106 MOA of adjustment, which allows me to get on my 280 yard target with my 25 LBT shooting a 56 grain cast bullet at 930 FPS.
I have since added a side wheel and M1 Leupold turrents.
It was with this scope that I fired the best air gun group in my life. 3 shots into 1.5 inches at 280 yards.
The scope altho a 30 MM only weighs slightly less than one lb and is around 12 inches long.
For me it is the perfect long range air gun scope.
