Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA Great Illuminated 85 MOA

Description

The Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA is the precision reticle version of Leupold flagship 3-18×44 hunting scope. TMOA is a tree style grid marked in minutes of angle, and it is the reason to choose this one over its two identical siblings. Until now the store title read simply Rifle Scope, which told you nothing at all.

The Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA Reticle

TMOA gives you a grid of elevation and windage references spaced in minutes of angle below and either side of centre. Because the marks are in MOA rather than in yards, they work with any cartridge and any load once you have shot your dope and written the numbers down. That is the opposite philosophy to a calibre specific ballistic reticle.

It also means the Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA can do something the other two cannot: hold for wind and elevation simultaneously on a target that will not wait for you to dial. For a shooter who spends time at distance on steel as well as on game, that grid is worth more than a clean duplex.

The reticle sits in the second focal plane, so the subtensions are only correct at one magnification, printed on the card in the box. Set it there and leave it there if you intend to use the grid.

A grid reticle is busier than a duplex, and that is the honest trade. In thick cover at low magnification the extra lines are clutter you do not need, and a plain duplex is faster. The Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA is the choice for a rifle that spends more time on a bipod than in a saddle.

The Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA and Its Two Siblings

This store carries three VX-6HD Generation 2 scopes in 3-18×44, and until now all three had titles that told you nothing: one said 30mm CDS-SZL2, one said 30mm CDS-SZL2 Illuminated, and one said Rifle Scope. All three of those descriptions are equally true of all three products.

They are the same scope optically and mechanically. Every published figure is identical: 3-18x, 44mm objective, 30mm tube, second focal plane, illuminated with eight daylight bright settings on a CR2032, 22.1 ounces, 13.5 inches, quarter MOA clicks, 85 MOA of travel each way, precision side focus down to 50 yards, CDS-SZL2 elevation with Zero-Lock windage.

The only thing that differs is the reticle. Item 184423 has an illuminated FireDot Duplex. Item 184425 has the illuminated FireDot Boone and Crockett. Item 184424 has the illuminated TMOA. We have retitled all three so you can tell them apart from the shop page.

Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA Optics and Illumination

Three to eighteen power is a six times zoom, which is what the VX-6HD name refers to. Field of view at 100 yards is 38.3 feet at 3x and 6.4 feet at 18x, and eye relief runs 3.7 inches low to 3.8 high. Precision side focus lets you dial parallax out from 50 yards to infinity, which matters on a scope that reaches 18x.

Illumination is daylight bright across eight settings on a CR2032, giving roughly 1600 hours on low, 1000 on medium and 300 on high. Daylight bright is a real distinction: many illuminated reticles wash out in sun and are only useful at dusk. This one stays visible at midday against a dark treeline.

Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA 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, then range, turn and hold centre. The dial locks at your zero so it cannot creep past it, a revolution indicator tells you which turn you are on, and rezero uses Leupold SpeedSet. Windage is a Zero-Lock turret rather than a plain finger click.

Quarter MOA clicks, 20 MOA per revolution, 85 MOA of total travel in elevation and windage, with a 38 MOA dial travel limit. The Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA weighs 22.1 ounces and measures 13.5 inches. The 30mm tube means one inch rings will not fit, so check what mounts you own before ordering.

One thing worth knowing about the photography: Leupold own page for this item also displays thumbnails of the other two reticle versions in a series picker. We have used only the image whose filename carries this item number, 184424, so the picture on this listing is the scope you are actually buying.

Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA Specifications

Buying from Mag5 Firearms

Mag5 Firearms is a family owned FFL dealer in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Optics need no transfer, so the Leupold VX-6HD 3-18×44 TMOA ships straight to your door. Full manufacturer detail is published on the Leupold product page. Leupold do not publish a finish colour or a lens coating name for this model, so we have not listed either as a manufacturer figure.

The other two reticle options sit alongside this one in our optics selection. Call us and tell us how you hunt and we will tell you which reticle suits it, because that is the only decision to make here.