Leupold custom shop seemingly open in Australia?

[juha_teuvonnen]

It seems that Leupold Custom Shop is open for business in Australia. At least that's what https://www.leupold.com.au/ seems to imply.

I have a couple of Mark IV scopes (3.5-10x40 and 8.5-25x50) and with TMR mil reticles and M3 Turrets (MOA). They are good scopes and I like them except for the "MIL reticle combined with MOA turrets" part. They are SFP scopes, but I can live with that. I was going to send them to Leupold to swap turrets for M5, but the custom shop in the US us closed and nobody knows if or when it will open. I am wondering how much it would be to send the scopes to Australia to have the turrets swapped and whether it would be cheaper to simply sell the Leupold and buy another scope instead. It's ironic that I bought a Leupold in part because I was expecting support to be available, should I ever need it. Now that I actually need it, it's not available.

I know that there are vendors that repair other brand scopes, for example Vortex. Are there scope repair vendors that can swap the turrets on a Leupold other than Leupold custom shop? I am wondering whether it is worth the trouble, or should I just sell the Leupolds and move on to Nightforce or Schmidt and Bender.

 

[juha_teuvonnen]

Update: Leupold Custom Shop Australia is not authorized to service US customers. Even if they were to get permission from Leupold as an exception, they still can't ship scopes out of Australia due to the local laws that control export of firearm parts. I think I am done with Leupold at this point. There are not the only game in town.

 

[McMillan]

Update: Leupold Custom Shop Australia is not authorized to service US customers. Even if they were to get permission from Leupold as an exception, they still can't ship scopes out of Australia due to the local laws that control export of firearm parts. I think I am done with Leupold at this point. There are not the only game in town.

That must be Leopold for I don't want to. There is nothing in Australia stopping you sending scopes overseas. Personally I don't think it would be worth the money. They were a reasonable scope 15 years ago. Technology has moved on and by a long way. Even China is producing better scopes these days

 

[Cascade Hemi]

That must be Leopold for I don't want to. There is nothing in Australia stopping you sending scopes overseas. Personally I don't think it would be worth the money. They were a reasonable scope 15 years ago. Technology has moved on and by a long way. Even China is producing better scopes these days

I have a MK4 3.5-10 that I had converted to M5 knobs a few years ago. I think I paid $200 for the conversion and had maybe $700 in the scope originally when I bought it in the mid 2000's. The $200 was well spent and made the scope functional instead of an odd relic of the 80's. Technology has moved on and there are better scopes today but it's still a good scope and I'm not in any hurry to get rid of it. There's some modern features I think would be nice to have on it but in a way it was ahead of its time as the scope industry struggles to get back to lightweight lower magnification options.

 

[iceng]

NIOA has the Leupold centre on site I thought ? Been this way for a few years ?
They are just advertising it differently. Happy to be wrong, just the last I had dealings with them, this was the setup.

As for people whinging about Leupold not sending out of Australia,. Get a grip. AU, NZ and others have been dealing with retarded US "export" controls for years. Yes they can export, it just takes time and money.