A lot of scopes don’t dial 100% throughout the range and as long as it’s consistent an error of .1 isn’t that big of a deal. If you want totally flawless tracking then go spend $5K on a TT.
I don't agree with this.
TBH IDK how many guys even have the range to even find out if their scopes are off when just shooting casually... and unless they buy a tracking-test target and hang it at 100 yards with a level, they really can't even check. I don't have that problem and am maybe a little spoiled since my club goes out to 1250 yards with known distance targets at 100, 200, 300, 500, 600, 750, 1000, and 1250, so I can honestly see it, and verify it (and until now, have never had a reason to mess with a tracking-test target).
My first scope that went past 6x magnification was a ~$300 Vortex Diamondback 6-24x50, and while its turrets weren't great, it worked fine, if you dialed 8.0mils, the cap/turret lined up at 8.0mils, and you got 8.0mils downrange.
Same with my next long-range scope: a $350 Arken SH-4, cap/turret lined up, tracked fine.
My next scope was a Razor Gen2... and since then I've had/tried a Kahles, a NF ATACR, and a couple of other Razors (Gen2 and Gen3), and with all of them (while some had more play/slop than others), all the caps/turrets lined up, and they all tracked well enough to have never given me a reason to bother hanging a tracking-test target when verified by walking them out to 1250 yards.
This Leupold is the first scope that has me questioning WTF is going on..? And TBH it's the fact that the cap/turret doesn't line up and "gets out of whack" as much as it is me questioning its tracking. This is actually my second one, my first one had a gritty parallax knob and really weak turret clicks but at least its cap/turrets lined up better (I didn't have it long enough to see if it got out of whack when dialing). The one I have now is my second unit, and its parallax knob feels better and its clicks are more pronounced (still pussy as fuck when compared to a Razor G3's), but its cap/turret doesn't line up and it gets progressively more off and out of whack as more elevation is dialed. In a match setting it seemed to be at least a tenth or two off by 8.0mils/1000 yards and none of us has time to count 80 clicks when we're engaging 10 or more targets at various distances in 90 seconds.
IMO, from the scopes I've bought and the several Mark5HDs I've played with, Leupold's QC and craftmanship sucks, full stop (and there are maybe too many Leupold fanboys/apologists out there who give them a pass).
I know the Mark4HD isn't their flagship model, but its build quality should be at least as good as a ~$300 scope.
As a collective knowledge base, this forum is known far and wide, and if this was a Vortex thread one of their reps would have already chimed in by now in an attempt to make things right... so I find it impossible to believe that no one associated with Leupold has heard of these complaints by now, and the fact that they haven't said anything speaks volumes, truthfully, their silence is deafening.
I'm going to email them and send it in to be made right... and if they blow me off and/or don't make it right my working plan is to take it out of their ass by flaming them every chance I get on the internet and at every single match at K&M and within driving distance of TN (and some I might fly to) as often as I possibly can for the rest of time.