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Some years ago, I happened upon a for sale ad for a Leupold riflescope on a South African Internet forum. Leupold scopes are in widespread use just about everywhere where rifles and shooting are popular, and the company’s products are rightly highly regarded.
The advertised scope was hardly new. It was a Vari-X III (the forerunner of today’s VX-3 range) 4,5-14x40 Tactical scope. Since I had never heard of any Leupold Tactical scopes at the time (I had