Leupold's New Mark 4HD (and another Northern Shrike)
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
After four decades of U.S. sniper history Leupold's legendary Mark 4 scope has been completely overhauled. The new Mark 4HD has state-of-the-art glass and cutting-edge features, and is undoubtedly the best crossover precision/tactical/hunting scope now on the market. Weight is reasonable, as is cost: $999 to $1,599.
This episode takes a deep dive into the new Mark 4HD line with optical experts John Snodgrass and Shawn Skipper. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | It's an exciting time to be a hunter and shooter. |
| 0:03.2 | Economic conditions through 2023 |
| 0:06.2 | and certainly going into 2024 have slowed the purchasing frenzy of the COVID years and manufacturers are rolling out a ton of really cool |
| 0:16.5 | and innovative new products in order to drive sales through the year. |
| 0:21.4 | There's no region of manufacturing where this is having a more |
| 0:24.7 | profound effect than in optics. I've seen more truly innovative new rifle |
| 0:30.6 | scopes in the past month than I did in the previous three years. From Burris and Revix |
| 0:36.6 | new smartscopes to cutting edge new thermal optics from several companies not previously |
| 0:42.2 | building in that space, there are just a ton of great new cutting edge optical gun sites. |
| 0:50.0 | Today we're going to take a deep dive into Leopold's new Mark 4 HD line of precision scopes. |
| 0:56.7 | Word amongst scope disciples is that this is the most significant introduction in quite a while. a line of precision-oriented optics that provides |
| 1:06.2 | top-shelf features and optical quality without breaking the bank. |
| 1:10.8 | First though, I've got a time time sensitive alert for you regarding the upcoming run of limited |
| 1:16.4 | addition Northern Shrike backcountry hunting knives by Sembita Custom Knives. |
| 1:21.1 | Let's take a minute and listen in on a conversation I |
| 1:24.4 | recently recorded with Evan Simbita. |
| 1:28.8 | Okay. Okay folks this may have come sooner than you anticipated just a week since the |
| 1:39.1 | teaser we are going to go ahead and launch our spring run of the limited edition Northern Shrike Knives made |
| 1:46.7 | by Simbaita Custom Knives. |
| 1:48.1 | I've got Evan on the line here for the listeners who didn't catch that teaser, Evan, hit the high points of what this special knife's going to be. |
| 1:57.8 | Yeah, so it's going to be using CPM Magna Cut stainless steel, the same stuff that we use in the last couple runs. |
| 2:03.8 | It's fantastic stuff and you can go back |
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