Leupold Dot Size

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JNW
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Leupold Dot Size

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I have a Leupold VXII 6-18x40 AO with a fine duplex reticle. I like shooting offhand and get to shoot casual cowboy silhouette a couple times a year. No sanctioned silhouette in Minnesota, so no real silhouette scopes to look through. I want to have Leupold put a dot with the tapered crosshairs in my scope. I called Leupold today and they said that the only dot size is 0.6 MOA. Is that true? They have 2 dot sizes in their fixed power silhouette scopes. Is the 0.6 dot a good size? What do you silhouette folks like in your scopes?
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I think they have a 3/8 and 1/2 dot choices currently. Of course they have the 1/8 dot for other applications, and I think the 1/4 dot is not available for some reason.
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Dot size is a personal preference. Leupold makes a .68 dot but you have to get through to the techs to get this done. For some reason most of the service phone staff is not aware of this.
I would go as large as you can.

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For sil, either the 3/8 or 1/2 is just fine. Any smaller than 3/8 is too much eye strain. You spend way too much time looking for the dot.
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