valdada scope

[chuck1]

I'm thinking of purchasing a Valdada fixed power 36x42 30mm scope to put on a newly acquired Cooper 6.5 CRDMR. The rifle will be used for informal target shooting and the occcasional Prairie Dog. I'm only experienced with Leupold scopes but have been told that the Valdada is a superior product. Can anyone advise me?

chuck

 

[BoydAllen]

Fixed power 36s make very poor field scopes. According to James Mock their quality is excellent. For the quality that you seem to be looking for some friends seem to like the Nightforce BR scopes.

 

[RJinTexas]

About 5yrs back my brother-in-law and I each purchased a 6-24x56, 35mm tubes, mp8 reticals. The side focus adjustment kept going completely quit fuctioning on both scopes. I sent mine back to them 3 times, and it didn't make a full day shooting before having the exact same failure accured. Mine actually spent more time in Colorado at the repair facility then on top of one of p-dog rifles. I'll never own another one.

RJ

 

[buckbrush]

I think IOR/Valdada has come a long way in the past few years regarding reliability. Glass has always been superior to Leupold. I have three IOR's and they have performed flawlessly...but they have all been built in the past three years. There is just no substitute for the Schott glass that they use. I would give the 3.5-18x50 a hard look. It's a new design and even thought it's only an 18x scope, I can see prairie dogs through it better than any Leupold I've owned...and I've owned a lot of them.

In short, the new IOR's are not the old IOR's.

 

[Mark S in NM]

Here is one of 2 Gen 3's that didn't make it past 30 rounds each. Can't comment on gen 4 because I will never own another.

 

[Ing. Michael W. Mayerl]

I think IOR/Valdada has come a long way in the past few years regarding reliability. Glass has always been superior to Leupold. I have three IOR's and they have performed flawlessly...but they have all been built in the past three years. There is just no substitute for the Schott glass that they use. I would give the 3.5-18x50 a hard look. It's a new design and even thought it's only an 18x scope, I can see prairie dogs through it better than any Leupold I've owned...and I've owned a lot of them.

In short, the new IOR's are not the old IOR's.

I sale IOR since two years in Austria, Germany and Swiss and 75% of my custom rifles are fitted with IORs.
I also changed nearly every scope on my private rifles from Leupold Mark 4 to IOR 3-18x and I`m very happy with it.
Since two years I only get 2x trouble and it was fixed within 3 weeks by the manufacturer. Much less trouble than I have in the past with the other european scopesmiths.

But it could be possible that they also have an evolution because each new product line must be tested at the customer