Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 FireDot Great 120 MOA Illuminated

Description

The Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 is Leupold flagship hunting scope in the second generation of the VX-6HD line: a six times zoom range, a daylight bright illuminated FireDot reticle, and a locking custom dial on a 30mm tube. Mag5 Firearms is a family owned FFL dealer in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and optics ship direct to your door with no transfer.

The Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 Six Times Zoom

Two to twelve power is a wider span than most hunting scopes offer, and it is the reason this scope suits more rifles than a 3-9x does. At 2x the field of view is 56.5 feet at 100 yards, which is genuinely usable on a driven boar or a dog running a hedge. At 12x you have enough magnification for a deliberate shot well past 300.

That range comes from a 30mm tube rather than a one inch, which is also what makes room for 120 MOA of adjustment in both elevation and windage. The Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 gives you more travel than almost any hunting scope needs, which matters if you mount on a rail with built in elevation.

The Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 FireDot Reticle

FireDot is a plain duplex with an illuminated centre dot. Eight brightness settings, daylight bright at the top so the dot is still visible against snow or a bright field, and a push button switch rather than a rotary dial. Battery is a CR2032 giving roughly 1600 hours on low, 1000 on medium and 300 on high.

Illumination on a hunting scope earns its keep in one specific situation: an animal in deep shadow at last light, where a black crosshair disappears against a black body. That is the shot the Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 is built to let you take. In daylight you leave it off and it is a normal duplex.

The reticle is in the second focal plane, so it holds the same apparent size right through the zoom range. There are no holdover marks to be calibrated at a particular power, which is deliberate: elevation is what the dial is for.

Leupold rate the Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 illumination as daylight bright, which is a real distinction rather than a marketing one. A lot of illuminated reticles wash out completely in sun and are only useful at dusk. This one stays visible in bright conditions, which is what makes it worth switching on at midday against a dark treeline.

Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 Turrets

Elevation is a CDS-SZL2 dial: Custom Dial System, side focus generation, with Zero Lock 2. Order a dial engraved in yards for your load and you range, turn and hold centre. The dial locks at your zero so it cannot creep back past it, and a revolution indicator tells you which turn you are on. Rezero uses Leupold SpeedSet, and windage is a Zero-Lock turret rather than a plain finger click.

Adjustment is a quarter MOA per click with 20 MOA per revolution and a 38 MOA dial travel limit. The Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 weighs 21 ounces and measures 12.5 inches, so it is a substantial scope. That weight is the price of the 30mm tube, the six times erector and the illumination module.

Worth being honest about that weight. At twenty one ounces the Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 is roughly eight ounces heavier than a VX-Freedom in the same magnification class. On a truck gun or a blind rifle that is nothing. On a rifle you carry up a mountain it is the difference you feel by the afternoon.

One Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 Spec We Are Not Printing

Leupold own specification table for this model contradicts itself on parallax. It carries a row saying the parallax is adjustable by side focus with a 50 yard minimum, and another saying precision side focus is not fitted and the parallax is fixed at 150 yards. The product name contains no reference to side focus.

We are not going to pick one and print it as though it were manufacturer data. If parallax adjustment matters to your decision on the Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42, call us and we will confirm it with Leupold before you order rather than guess on your behalf.

Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 Specifications

Buying from Mag5 Firearms

Optics need no FFL transfer, so the Leupold VX-6HD 2-12×42 ships straight to your door. Full manufacturer detail is published on the Leupold product page.

If twenty one ounces is more than your rifle wants to carry, the VX-3HD and VX-Freedom lines in our optics selection are lighter. Call us and tell us the rifle and how far you actually shoot.