Unleash Precision: The Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm M1C3 FFP PR2-MOA Rifle Scope

Are you a dedicated long-range shooter, a competitive marksman, or a tactical professional who demands nothing less than absolute precision and unwavering reliability from your optics? Do you constantly seek to extend your effective range, maintain crystal-clear visibility in challenging light, and make rapid, accurate adjustments under pressure? If so, the Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm M1C3 FFP PR2-MOA Rifle Scope is engineered to meet and exceed those formidable demands.

This isn't just another riflescope; it's a meticulously crafted instrument designed to give you a decisive edge, whether you're dominating a competitive shooting stage, executing a critical long-distance shot on a hunt, or engaged in high-stakes tactical operations. What sets the Mark 5HD apart is its unique blend of advanced optical performance, significant weight reduction, and ergonomic superiority, all built to withstand the harshest conditions imaginable.

Why Choose the Mark 5HD for Your Long-Range System?

When evaluating the best optics for long-range shooting, several critical factors come into play: optical clarity, adjustability, durability, and weight. The Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm addresses each of these with professional-grade solutions.

• Superior Light Transmission for Challenging Conditions: Often, success hinges on target identification and clarity during dawn, dusk, or under heavy canopy. The Mark 5HD's Professional-Grade Optical System, featuring Leupold's acclaimed Twilight Max HD Light Management System, ensures maximum light transmission. This innovative system is designed to extend your shooting window by gathering ambient light more efficiently, providing unparalleled brightness and resolution. Furthermore, it excels in glare reduction, minimizing image washout caused by direct sunlight or reflective surfaces, which is a common frustration for shooters. You'll experience vivid color fidelity, incredible contrast, and edge-to-edge sharpness, allowing you to discern fine details even at extreme distances.
• Remarkable Weight Savings Without Compromise: In the world of long-range shooting and tactical engagements, every ounce matters. The Mark 5HD is engineered to be up to 20 ounces lighter than comparable riflescopes in its class. This significant weight reduction translates into less fatigue during extended carry, improved rifle balance, and easier maneuverability, offering a distinct advantage whether you're navigating rugged terrain or transitioning between targets on a stage. You get the robust performance of a heavy-duty scope in a surprisingly agile package.
• Versatile Magnification for Any Scenario: The 5-25x magnification range provides exceptional versatility. At its lower 5x setting, you benefit from a wide field of view, ideal for tracking moving targets, close-to-midrange engagements, or quickly acquiring targets. As you dial up to 25x, you gain the power needed to identify targets at extreme distances, make precise shot placements, and observe impacts. This broad 5:1 zoom ratio ensures that one scope can adapt to a multitude of shooting situations, from midrange precision to truly reaching out to long distances.

Core Features and Their Impact on Performance

Let's delve deeper into the specific features that elevate the Mark 5HD to a class of its own and address common questions shooters have about their optics.

Professional-Grade Optical System with Twilight Max HD

How does the Mark 5HD provide such a clear and bright image? It's powered by the Twilight Max HD Light Management System. This advanced optical architecture offers three key benefits:

1. Best Light Transmission: It maximizes the amount of usable light reaching your eye, allowing for extended visibility in low-light environments like dawn, dusk, or heavily shadowed areas. This is crucial for hunters whose prime shooting times often fall within these challenging periods.
2. Best Glare Management: Through advanced lens coatings and internal baffling, it significantly reduces glare and stray light, preventing image washout and ensuring a crisp, clear sight picture even when shooting into direct sun or over reflective surfaces like water or sand.
3. Best Contrast & Resolution: Utilizing premium high-definition (HD) lens prescriptions and additional HD lens coatings, the system delivers the clearest possible image with outstanding contrast and resolution from edge to edge. This allows for superior target identification and precise aiming, critical for pinpoint accuracy.

Intuitive M1C3 Adjustments for Rapid Precision

Precision adjustments are the bedrock of long-range accuracy. The Mark 5HD features M1C3 adjustments, renowned for their tactile and audible feedback, larger numbers for easy reading, and a high-speed throw lever for quick magnification changes.

• Tactile and Audible Clicks: Each 1/4 MOA click is distinct, allowing for precise adjustments by feel, even in low light or while wearing gloves. This reduces the need to visually confirm every click, speeding up your adjustment process.
• Three Revolutions of Elevation: The M1C3 system provides up to 71.5 MOA of adjustment over three full revolutions. This extensive elevation travel ensures you have more than enough adjustment range to compensate for bullet drop at extreme distances, even with cartridges known for significant trajectory.
• Visual and Tactile Revolution Indicators: Gone are the days of getting lost in your dial's travel. The Mark 5HD incorporates clear revolution indicators, visually and tangibly informing you which revolution you're on, preventing accidental over-rotation and ensuring you return to your correct zero.
• ZeroLock® System: This critical feature eliminates accidental dial movement by physically locking your elevation turret in place. Once you've set your zero or a specific elevation, it stays there until you intentionally release the lock. This provides immense confidence, especially in dynamic shooting environments or when traversing rugged terrain.
• ZeroStop System: A true game-changer for rapid return to zero, the ZeroStop system creates a positive mechanical stop when you dial back to your zero setting. This means you can quickly and confidently spin your dial back to zero without having to look, preventing you from accidentally turning a full revolution past your intended mark.

First Focal Plane (FFP) PR2-MOA Reticle: Consistency at All Magnifications

The Leupold Mark 5HD features a First Focal Plane (FFP) reticle, specifically the PR2-MOA pattern. But what does "First Focal Plane" mean for a shooter?

• Scalability with Magnification: In an FFP scope, the reticle physically grows and shrinks in proportion to the target as you adjust the magnification. This means that your holdovers, windage corrections, and ranging subtensions (the distance between reticle marks) remain accurate and consistent at all magnification settings. Whether you're at 5x or 25x, a 1 MOA mark on the reticle always represents 1 MOA at the target, simplifying complex ballistic calculations and ensuring reliable corrections across the entire magnification range.
• PR2-MOA Reticle: The PR2-MOA reticle is designed for precision and speed. Its clean, open design offers excellent target visibility while providing ample holdover and windage reference points. The MOA-based subtensions perfectly complement the scope's MOA adjustments, making calculations intuitive and straightforward for shooters familiar with the MOA system. This synergy ensures that "dialing" or "holding" for a correction is seamless and highly effective.

Side Focus for Parallax Control and Enhanced Clarity

The side focus knob on the Mark 5HD allows for precise adjustment of the scope's parallax.

• Eliminating Parallax Error: Parallax is an apparent shift in the reticle's position relative to the target when your eye isn't perfectly centered behind the eyepiece. By precisely adjusting the side focus, you eliminate this optical phenomenon, ensuring the reticle and target are on the same focal plane. This means the reticle appears clearer, and there is no perceived movement of the reticle over the target, leading to tighter groups and increased confidence, especially at varying distances.
• Crisp Reticle Focus: In addition to correcting parallax, the side focus also allows you to fine-tune the sharpness of the reticle itself, ensuring it is always perfectly crisp for your eye, regardless of the target distance.

Motion Sensor Technology (MST) for Extended Battery Life

For models that might include illumination (though this specific model 180291 is non-illuminated as per the specifications, it's a general feature of the Mark 5HD line), Leupold's Motion Sensor Technology (MST) is a smart power-saving feature. MST automatically deactivates the illuminated reticle after five minutes of inactivity, conserving battery life. The moment movement is detected, the reticle instantly reactivates, ensuring it's ready when you are.

Built to Endure: Waterproof, Fogproof, & Shockproof Construction

Leupold has been a pioneer in rugged optical design, setting the industry standard for durability. The Mark 5HD is no exception.

• 100% Waterproof and Fogproof: Utilizing advanced internal gasses and proprietary sealing methods, the Mark 5HD is impervious to water and fog. This ensures the internal optics remain moisture-free and crystal clear, even in the most extreme temperatures, sudden elevation changes, or heavy precipitation. This reliability is vital for hunters and professionals operating in unpredictable environments.
• Shockproof: Engineered to withstand the relentless recoil of heavy calibers and the inevitable knocks and bumps of field use, the Mark 5HD maintains its zero and optical integrity through rigorous testing. Its robust construction ensures it can handle any challenge you throw at it, making it a dependable companion for life.

Designed, Machined, and Assembled in the USA

Like all Leupold riflescopes, the Mark 5HD is proudly designed, machined, and assembled in the USA. This commitment to domestic manufacturing ensures stringent quality control standards and supports American craftsmanship. Leupold's unwavering confidence in its products is backed by its legendary Lifetime Guarantee, promising performance for life.

Who Benefits from the Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm M1C3 FFP PR2-MOA?

This scope is tailored for individuals and professionals who cannot compromise on performance.

• Long-Range Precision Shooters: For PRS (Precision Rifle Series) competitors, ELR (Extreme Long Range) enthusiasts, or anyone pushing the limits of their rifle and ammunition, the Mark 5HD provides the consistent FFP reticle, extensive adjustment range, and crystal-clear optics needed to connect at incredible distances.
• Tactical Operators & Law Enforcement: The rapid adjustment features, robust construction, and clear optical performance make it an ideal choice for designated marksmen, SWAT teams, and military personnel who rely on their equipment in critical, high-stress situations.
• Serious Hunters: While known for its tactical prowess, the Mark 5HD's optical superiority in low light, its ability to quickly adjust for varying ranges, and its lightweight design make it a formidable asset for ethical, long-range hunting, especially for big game.
• Varmint Hunters: The high magnification and fine FFP reticle allow for precise targeting of small, distant targets, making it an excellent choice for varmint and predator control.

The Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm with its M1C3 adjustments and PR2-MOA reticle isn't just a component of your rifle; it's an extension of your commitment to excellence. It solves the critical problems of optical limitations, weight burden, and adjustment complexity that often plague shooters attempting to achieve peak performance. With this scope, you're not just buying an optic; you're investing in a system designed for accuracy, speed, and endurance, guaranteed to perform for life.

Detailed Specifications and Dimensions

To further aid in understanding the precise capabilities of the Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm M1C3 FFP PR2-MOA Rifle Scope (UPC: 030317027568), please refer to the comprehensive tables below. These specifications are crucial for ensuring compatibility with your rifle system and understanding the scope's physical and optical characteristics.

Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm M1C3 FFP PR2-MOA Rifle Scope Specifications

Feature	Detail
Optical System	Professional-Grade
Light Management	Twilight Max HD
Reticle Focal Plane	First Focal Plane (FFP)
Reticle Type	FFP PR2-MOA
Magnification Range	5x - 25x (5:1 Zoom Ratio)
Objective Lens Diameter	56mm
Parallax Adjustment	Side Focus (Minimum 50 yd)
Elevation Adjustment Type	M1C3 (Tactile, Audible Clicks)
Elevation Adj. Value/Click	1/4 MOA
Elevation Adj. Range (MOA)	120 MOA
Elevation Adj. Per Revolution	25 MOA
Elevation Dial Travel Limit	71.5 MOA
Windage Adjustment Type	Capped
Windage Adj. Value/Click	1/4 MOA
Windage Adj. Range (MOA)	60 MOA
Windage Adj. Per Revolution	15 MOA
Locking Dial	Yes (ZeroLock®)
Zero Stop	Yes
Revolution Indicator	Yes
Rezero Type	Set Screw
Custom Dial Compatible	No (as per specific SKU)
Motion Sensor Technology (MST)	Yes (for illuminated models)
Waterproof Rating	100% Waterproof
Fogproof Rating	100% Fogproof
Shockproof Rating	100% Shockproof
Weight	30 oz
Manufacturing	Designed, Machined, Assembled in USA
SKU	180291
UPC	030317027568

Optical Performance Metrics

Metric	Low Magnification (5x)	High Magnification (25x)
Linear FOV (ft@100yds)	20.4 ft	4.2 ft
Angular FOV (Degrees)	3.9 degrees	0.8 degrees
Eye Relief (in)	3.6 inches	3.8 inches

Physical Dimensions

Dimension	Measurement
Total Length (A)	15.7 inches
Total Mounting Space (B)	6.2 inches
Front Mounting Space (C)	2.0 inches
Rear Mounting Space (D)	2.0 inches
Eyepiece Length (E)	3.3 inches
Objective Length (F)	6.2 inches
Objective Diameter (G)	2.5 inches
Eyepiece Diameter (H)	1.8 inches
Maintube Diameter (K)	35 mm