Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm Rifle Scope: Precision, Agility, and Unyielding Performance

For the discerning shooter who demands uncompromising performance without being weighed down, the Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm rifle scope stands as a pinnacle of optical engineering. Whether you're a competitive long-range shooter vying for every point, a tactical professional requiring rapid and precise adjustments in dynamic environments, or a dedicated hunter seeking to make ethical shots across vast distances, this scope is meticulously crafted to elevate your capabilities. It addresses critical challenges faced in the field: the need for a lightweight yet robust optical solution, the demand for repeatable and intuitive adjustments, and the absolute necessity of crystal-clear vision in varying conditions.

How do you achieve pinpoint accuracy at extended ranges while maintaining agility? What if your equipment could significantly reduce fatigue during long hours in the field or at the range? The Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm answers these questions with its groundbreaking design and advanced features, setting a new standard for high-performance rifle optics. This isn't just a scope; it's a strategic advantage, engineered to help you put accurate fire downrange faster and with greater confidence.

Unrivaled Lightweight Design: The Agility Advantage

One of the most revolutionary aspects of the Leupold Mark 5HD is its astonishingly low weight. Weighing in at up to 20 ounces less than comparable riflescopes in its class, the Mark 5HD significantly lightens your load without sacrificing an ounce of performance or durability. But why is this critical? Imagine carrying your rifle system over challenging terrain during a hunt, or maintaining a stable shooting position for extended periods in a long-range competition. Every ounce counts. A lighter scope means:

• Reduced Shooter Fatigue: Less weight translates to less strain on your arms, shoulders, and back, allowing you to maintain focus and stability for longer durations. This is particularly crucial in multi-stage competitions or extended hunting trips.
• Enhanced Maneuverability: A lighter rifle system is easier to carry, quicker to bring to bear, and more agile in dynamic shooting scenarios. This can be the difference between a missed opportunity and a successful shot.
• Improved Balance: By reducing top-heavy weight, the Mark 5HD helps maintain the natural balance of your rifle, leading to a more stable shooting platform and more consistent shot placement.
• Optimized Rig Configuration: The weight savings allow shooters to allocate more weight to other essential components, like suppressors or heavier barrels, without exceeding overall weight limits for certain disciplines.

This commitment to a lightweight, high-performance design ensures that you're always operating at your peak, unhindered by excessive gear. It’s an advantage you’ll feel with every step and every shot.

Professional-Grade Optical System: Clarity in Every Condition

At the core of the Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm lies Leupold’s Professional-Grade Optical System, a testament to their century-long heritage of optical excellence. This system is designed to deliver unparalleled light transmission, superior glare reduction, and industry-leading resolution, ensuring a bright, clear, and sharp image from dawn till dusk. Key benefits include:

• Unmatched Clarity and Resolution: See targets with exceptional detail, identify nuances in the landscape, and pick out small details even at extreme distances. This is crucial for precise shot placement.
• Superior Light Transmission: The 56mm objective lens, combined with Leupold's proprietary lens coatings, gathers maximum light, providing brilliant images in low-light conditions. This extends your effective shooting window during early morning or late evening hunts, or in overcast tactical scenarios.
• Fidelity in Color and Contrast: The optical system faithfully reproduces colors and contrasts, helping you distinguish targets from their backgrounds with ease. This visual fidelity reduces eye strain and enhances target recognition.

The Mark 5HD's optical performance ensures that when you look through this scope, you're not just seeing a target; you're seeing every detail necessary for a confident and accurate shot.

First Focal Plane (FFP) Reticle: Consistent Performance Across Magnifications

The Mark 5HD features a First Focal Plane (FFP) reticle, an essential characteristic for precision shooters. With an FFP reticle, the reticle itself magnifies and shrinks proportionally with the image as you change the scope’s magnification. This offers several distinct advantages:

• Accurate Holdovers and Ranging: All reticle subtensions (e.g., hash marks, dots) remain accurate at any magnification setting. This means your holdovers for bullet drop compensation or windage corrections are always true, regardless of whether you're at 5x or 25x magnification.
• Consistent Ranging: If your reticle has ranging capabilities, these will also remain accurate at all magnifications, simplifying target estimation.
• Simplified Communication: When communicating shot corrections or target locations with a spotter, the FFP ensures that your calls based on reticle units (e.g., MILs or MOAs) are universally consistent, improving team coordination.

This FFP design removes a common variable in precision shooting, allowing you to focus purely on the shot, confident that your reticle adjustments are always precise.

M5C3 Zero Lock Adjustments and Zero Stop: Rapid, Repeatable Control

Precision shooting demands turrets that are not only precise but also intuitive and reliable. The Leupold Mark 5HD incorporates the innovative M5C3 Zero Lock adjustments, coupled with a Zero Lock dial and Zero Stop. These features are game-changers for fast, accurate shooting:

• Tactile and Audible Clicks: Each adjustment click is crisp, positive, and distinctly audible, providing immediate feedback so you can count your adjustments without looking away from the target. The larger, more distinct numbers on the turrets further enhance visibility and ease of use.
• M5C3 Turrets: The M5C3 turrets offer a significant amount of elevation travel per revolution, allowing for fewer turns to dial in long-range shots. This speed is critical when seconds count.
• Zero Lock Dial: This feature physically locks the elevation and windage turrets, preventing any accidental adjustments while you're moving or handling the rifle. Once locked, you can trust your zero will remain exactly where you set it.
• Zero Stop: The integrated Zero Stop provides a positive, hard stop at your established zero point. This means you can confidently dial down your elevation for close-range shots or during windage adjustments, and always return precisely to your zero without over-rotating the turrets. It eliminates the need to visually confirm your zero, especially in low light or high-stress situations.

These adjustment mechanisms collectively empower shooters to make rapid, precise, and repeatable corrections with absolute confidence, ensuring every shot is optimized for success.

Side Focus Parallax Adjustment: Refined Clarity at Any Distance

The inclusion of a side focus parallax adjustment on the Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm scope is vital for achieving optimal image clarity and eliminating parallax error, especially at high magnifications and varying distances. Parallax occurs when the target and the reticle appear to be on different focal planes, leading to apparent reticle shift if your eye position isn't perfectly centered. The side focus mechanism allows you to:

• Eliminate Parallax Error: By rotating the side focus knob, you can adjust the optical system to bring the target and reticle into the same focal plane, ensuring the reticle appears stationary on the target regardless of minor head movements.
• Crisp Image Focus: Beyond parallax correction, the side focus also allows you to fine-tune the sharpness of your target image, providing the clearest possible view.

This feature is adjustable down to 50 yards, making the Mark 5HD versatile enough for both extreme long-range engagements and closer precision work, always delivering a parallax-free and focused sight picture.

Built for the Toughest Conditions: Fogproof, Shockproof, Waterproof Reliability

Leupold scopes are legendary for their rugged durability, and the Mark 5HD is no exception. Constructed from aerospace-grade aluminum and subjected to Leupold’s rigorous "Punisher" testing, this scope is engineered to withstand the harshest environments and the most severe recoil. Its robust design incorporates:

• Fogproof Performance: Internally purged with an advanced gas blend and sealed, the Mark 5HD is guaranteed to remain fog-free in any temperature or humidity extreme, ensuring a clear view when you need it most.
• Shockproof Construction: Designed to absorb and dissipate the recoil from even the heaviest calibers, the scope maintains its zero and structural integrity shot after shot, season after season.
• Waterproof Integrity: Tested to be fully submersible, the Mark 5HD is impervious to rain, snow, and accidental submersion, making it a reliable partner in any weather condition.

This unwavering commitment to durability ensures that the Leupold Mark 5HD will perform flawlessly when you're facing challenging weather, rough terrain, or intense shooting scenarios.

Ergonomic Excellence: Designed for the Shooter

Beyond its optical and mechanical prowess, the Mark 5HD is designed with the shooter in mind. Every ergonomic detail is optimized for ease of use and rapid manipulation:

• High-Speed Throw Lever: An integrated throw lever on the magnification ring allows for incredibly fast and smooth changes in magnification, enabling quick target acquisition and situational awareness shifts without taking your eye off the target.
• Intuitive Controls: All adjustments are placed for natural access and intuitive operation, minimizing the learning curve and maximizing efficiency in high-pressure situations.
• Matte Black Finish: The non-reflective matte black finish prevents glare that could spook game or reveal your position in tactical settings, maintaining a discreet profile.

These thoughtful design elements contribute to an overall shooting experience that is efficient, comfortable, and highly effective.

Why Choose the Leupold Mark 5HD? A Legacy of Trust

Choosing a Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm rifle scope means investing in a piece of equipment backed by over a century of American manufacturing excellence and a reputation for unmatched quality. Leupold’s commitment to innovation and craftsmanship is evident in every detail of the Mark 5HD. Furthermore, every Leupold product is backed by the legendary Leupold Gold Ring Lifetime Guarantee, offering peace of mind and demonstrating the company's absolute confidence in its products. This warranty ensures that your investment is protected for life, regardless of who owns it.

The Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm (UPC 030317012960, MPN 171774) is more than just a riflescope; it is an instrument of precision that empowers shooters to push their limits and achieve results previously thought impossible. Its blend of lightweight design, superior optics, and advanced, user-friendly features makes it the preferred choice for those who demand the absolute best in their pursuit of accuracy. This scope doesn't just meet expectations; it consistently exceeds them, delivering reliable, high-performance optical solutions for the most demanding applications.

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Detailed Specifications for the Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25x56mm (UPC: 030317012960)

Feature	Specification	Benefit
Brand	Leupold	Trusted American manufacturer with a century of optical excellence.
Model	Mark 5HD	Flagship series for high-performance long-range and tactical applications.
MPN	171774	Unique Manufacturer Part Number for product identification.
Magnification	5-25x	Versatile range suitable for close-quarters to extreme long-range shooting.
Objective Lens Diameter	56mm	Large objective lens for maximum light gathering and bright images.
Tube Diameter	35mm	Provides greater internal adjustment range for extreme distances.
Material	Aerospace-Grade Aluminum	Durable and lightweight construction for rugged field use.
Finish	Matte Black	Non-reflective surface for reduced glare and tactical advantage.
Firearm Type	Rifle	Specifically designed and engineered for rifle applications.
Field of View (at 100 yds)	4.20 ft (25x) - 20.50 ft (5x)	Wide field of view for situational awareness and target tracking.
Adjustment Size	0.10 Mil	Fine, precise adjustments for dialing in exact shot corrections.
Focal Plane	First (FFP)	Reticle subtensions remain accurate at all magnification levels.
Eye Relief	3.80" - 3.60"	Comfortable and safe eye relief, especially with high-recoil calibers.
Windage Adjustment	60 MOA	Ample windage adjustment range for varying conditions.
Elevation Adjustment	120 MOA	Extensive elevation travel for extreme long-range engagements.
Length	15.67"	Optimized length for balance and mounting versatility.
Focus Type	Side	Convenient and precise parallax adjustment for clear image focus.
Parallax Adjustment	50 yds - ∞	Adjustable down to 50 yards for parallax-free viewing at various distances.
Weight	30 oz	Significantly lighter than competing models, reducing fatigue.
Exit Pupil Diameter	2.20mm	Provides sufficient light for clear viewing at max magnification.
Windage/Elevation	Adjustable (M5C3 Zero Lock)	Tactile, audible, and lockable turrets for confident, repeatable adjustments.
Waterproof / Fogproof / Shockproof	Yes	Guaranteed performance in all weather conditions and under heavy recoil.
UPC	030317012960	Universal Product Code for easy identification and tracking.