Just FYI, I just got a notification from Midway that it's available now, for in case anyone wanted to be the guinea pig.

I wonder who makes these for Leupold? Meopta made the last version for them. Just curious.

Has anyone heard when the new Leupold RF binos may hit the floors and any possible insite on how they may stack up with the Sig and Vortex models?

I've seen some videos on them but wondering if it's a lot of marketing hype. I did get to fondle them a bit at Shot Show earlier this year but they don't like you walking over to their competitors to compare side by side.

I have been watching a lot of the Sig vs. Vortex RF bino comparison threads here and will eventually be looking into one of these 3. I know all about the 3200. com's but I'm not spending that kind of coin in this department.

Just FYI, I just got a notification from Midway that it's available now, for in case anyone wanted to be the guinea pig.

https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/8856260/sig-kilo3000-bdx#Post8856260

Are you wanting good glass with excellent ranging capabilities? My Sig's get it done. See if you can find a similar review on the Leupold's. Accurate, fast and ese of acquiring the target were the most important factors to me. The link above is how I've put the range feature to use.

Sigs were at the top of my list, over the Vortex no doubt. There aren't hardly any reviews on the Leupolds since they just became available the other day. My Sig standalone rangefinder has done great for me but I'm needing some new binos and really wanting to get into a RF bino set up without the cost of the 3200.coms. This put me into the Sig, Vortex, then just recently the Leupolds price range. I'm tending to lead towards the Sig at the time being.

I played with the Lica Giovid and the Vortex side by side at Cabelas a few weeks ago. I hate to say it but I preferred the Vortex over the Leicas. (they didn't have a set of sigs or I would have played with it a bit as well). I ranged a mount on the opposite side of the store and between the two there was a 4 yard difference. I tried it multiple times and came up with the same results.

I haven't done a lot of research on a somewhat similar but different topic. I do know my standalone Sig shoots a different range than my buddy's standalone Leica. Enough so that I called a shot for my buddy and he straight up missed a doe at roughly 500 yards, which is a chip shot for him. He ranged a stump that was right next to where she was standing and said I called the distance wrong...long story short, at that distance his leica was roughly 15 yards different than my sig. Which one was correct? Who knows, but my rifles are "tuned", if you will, to my sig and his is "tuned" to his Leica. We quickly switched rangefinders to call shots for each other.

500 yards is a pretty fair poke. If they only differed by 15 yards, IMO he blew the shot. But it is odd they differed so much, almost like y'all didn't range the same target. Any chance there was a small limb, large piece of grass or something else one of them ranged off? I've tested my Sig against my Leupold and they're within a yard to 400 yards.

I just watched the video on the new Leupold RF binos and my impression is….. what are they thinking?
First off the ranging capabilities are mediocre compared to what’s available and then to suggest that they are great for competitors when their ballistics solution gives you”25” options of velocity and bullet weights. Wow! This is state of the art stuff …..15-20 years ago….
Come on Leupold you can do better than this.

if you dont need a ballistics app built in here is best deal and glass

Leica Geovid R

I just watched the video on the new Leupold RF binos and my impression is….. what are they thinking?
First off the ranging capabilities are mediocre compared to what’s available and then to suggest that they are great for competitors when their ballistics solution gives you”25” options of velocity and bullet weights. Wow! This is state of the art stuff …..15-20 years ago….
Come on Leupold you can do better than this.

The GPO 10x50 is the best combination of glass quality and kickasss RF that there is IMO, and yes, I've owned 3 different Geovids.

This is hearsay but I heard that when Sig came out with the 10K that at about that time frame Leupold had a couple optics engineers jump ship over to Sig.

better then redesigned Leica R’s?

I have not had those two side by side, but I did have the GPO side by side last hunting season with my 3200.coms and Vortex Fury AB. Leica is optically superior, but my particular samples (3) had inferior/defective RF functions so they were dead last in that category. The GPO's optics are excellent, superior to the Fury AB, and a small notch below the 3200's. At least that's the way my eyeballs saw it after about a month fiddling with them.

My question would be why would you want a 15x RF Bino versus a 10x when the 15x is way heavier harder to hold and range with unless you are on a tripod?
Just trying to visualize circumstances where the ranging in a spotter on the tripod is critical.
Last season I used a Swaro NL 12x on the tripod and had the Leica Pro RF in my harness for final stalking.