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Review Leupold Mark 4HD 4.5-18×52 rifle scope
Last updated: 12 Dec, 2024 | Author: Mick Matheson
The Leupold Mark 4HD 4.5-18×52 is one of those rifle scopes that exceeds expectations once you start using it. It’s a high-end scope for long-range competition and varmint shooting that you know should be good but it turns on a performance you’d give a standing ovation.
This version has the M5C3 turret system with PR2 reticle graduated in milliradians (MIL) and mounted in the first focal plane — but more about those in a moment.
Leupold Mark 4HD 45-18x52 PR2-MIL rifle scope review
The Leupold Mark 4HD is a top pick as a competition scope on a rimfire or centrefire rifle
The optics are from what Leupold calls its Professional-Grade system, that is, it’s the high-end stuff and it is excellent as well as robust.
The clarity is outstanding. I could count the wires on a fence 1300m away and see where the chicken mesh started. Such clarity relies on good contrast, which is another strong point of the Mark 4HD. Colour, too, is well defined in the scope, and it all points to the top results Leupold is getting from the lens coatings it puts on its HD glass.
Leupold boasts that it has gone to lengths to reduce glare inside the Mark 4HD and they’ve succeeded. Looking as close as possible towards a setting sun without having it shine straight down the lens, this scope is as good as the best I’ve tied this with; there are very few that can handle it while letting you see your target well.
Leupold doesn’t quote light transmission figures or the like as most European makers do, but after comparing this one against a few other scopes it’d have be about 90 percent or better, though I admit it’s a very difficult thing to judge by eye, which is the only measure I had.
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