what a gorgeous morning hey guys todd helms out here with eastman's hunting journals
to bring you a rifle scope review on the leica amplis 6. while i've got you here make sure you
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time we release great content here at eastmans all right so i'm here today to review the leica
amplis 6 that's leica's brand new scope for 2021 and I gotta say
just at first blush i'm impressed i wish that i could take this thing hunting this fall on this
particular rifle but i've got it mounted up we've got it boresighted and we're going to walk you
through all of the features that this scope boasts as well as sight it in because i think
it's great to sit down and talk features on an optic but until you see how it performs
even in the field even at the range it's tough to make up your mind on it at first blush the amplis
6 just screams quality this scope is everything you would expect from a high-end
european optic the amplis 6 gets its name from that that six at the end is for six power zoom
this is a meat and potatoes hunting scope this is a scope that's designed to perform
just flat out perform every day in the field it's got some really interesting features that i
i'm kind of in love with this version is the 3 to 18 by 44 and they got an i on the end that stands
for illuminated it has an illuminated reticle in there now leica is claiming that this reticle this
illuminated reticle is extremely precise and just from playing around with it i'm going to
get to know more about that in a minute when i start shooting but just playing around with it
after i got it mounted on the gun it's sharp it is sharp and it is precise it's not a great big
giant illuminated reticle that can drown your eye with light this thing is small it you can tell it
is designed to make precision shots on game in the field and i i don't know i've kind of gotten
attached to illuminated reticles in the past few years low light situations morning evening
just phenomenal to be able to just turn a little bit of illumination on and i can just
pinpoint that reticle on my target so much more easily another thing that i noticed as
soon as i mounted up the amplis 6 is the extremely generous field of view they're claiming 38 meters
so you americans do your math and but one of the things that i noticed right away this is a 3 to 18
by 44 objective scope and usually with a 3 power scope when you mount them up you can't see your
rifle barrel you can in the amplis six it's almost like an old a one and a half or even a two power
scope in that on its lowest setting three in this case i can see my rifle barrel what that equates
to in a hunting situation when i have when i'm presented with an extremely close shot in cover or
god forbid a charging grizzly bear i've got the biggest field of view possible and i'm still going
to be able to find that animal in the scope and make a shot all at the same time a smaller field
of view shrinks down what you can see makes it much much more difficult to acquire your target
in the optic not so with the amplis six i was blown away like i said three power mounted it
up looked through it and went whoa i could see my barrel that's uh that's a first for me i've
never been able to do that in a three power on three power before lower yes but not three power
it's also got very generous eye relief which is really nice in a hunting rifle because let's face
it guys we're not always shooting off a bench we're shooting off backpacks tree limbs sticks
prone whatever the case may be i was on an elk hunt last year with a friend from the office and
we had he had to take an incredibly challenging shot on a bull elk that the angle was really weird
it was uphill and we had to do some we had to do some kind of wonky aiming to get it squared away
if he hadn't had the right setup and the right optics he would have struggled so the point of
all of that is generous eye relief is a benefit for the hunter granted shooting fundamentals are
key to accuracy in the field but let's face it we live in the real world and this scope is designed
for real world hunting scenarios along with the generous eye relief of about 90 millimeters you're
looking at 12 millimeter exit pupils on the scope just one more thing that like i thought through
and put into this design on the amplis 6 maybe saying okay todd that's great those are awesome
features but is it tough if it's being built as a hunting scope man it's got to perform i got to be
able to pound nails with this thing well i'm going to tell you this at first blush like i said this
scope is robust that's directly from the leica's terminology there but i'm going to agree with
them there's no real frills on this thing it's a modern hunting scope with an elevation turret
a capped windage turret a side parallax adjustment and your illumination dial here on the side
and there's other than that there's there's no throw lever here they have a little bit of a
raised bump that you can get a hold of this this is very tactile i could easily maneuver my power
dial with gloves on if it was cold or wet it's just a simply designed robust workhorse of a scope
one i look through in through the scope and down into the reticle it's got a very simple
and standard moa style reticle it's going to give me lots of aiming points if i don't have time to
dial or i don't want to use my dial so you combine all of those features in what we would expect from
leica high quality high quality european optics this glass is crisp it's clear it's color neutral
the picture through it the sight picture is ridiculously sharp it is everything
that you could ask for in this now okay you're thinking european glass leica that's great this
thing's got to cost me my firstborn right wrong leica is building these scopes to be
they're calling it their entry level into premium european optics and so your retail on the amplis
six three to 18 by 44i is right at fourteen hundred dollars it's got an msrp for $1,399
you get all those features wrapped up in european glass at that price point this thing's a winner
but i'm not done leica just sweetened the deal this year with their new warranty they're
calling it the passport protection warranty your cast iron best in class protection plan
for this optic for all of leica's optics really what they're building with this new warranty
program is that when you buy a leica optic or a leica product like optics we'll stick to the glass
here you're looking at a 30 year manufacturer defect plan you're looking at a 10 year accidental
basically accident coverage you drop this thing off of a i don't know off of a cliff
and it falls down the mountain if it's within 10 years of the purchase date guess what no
questions asked they're going to repair well in that case probably replace it but that's that's
a big deal because when you when you start looking at high-end european glass it's nice to have the
peace of mind of a warranty like the passport protection warranty now for the 30-year portion
if something happens maybe you have a lifter inside the scope maybe your reticle falls
something happens in the scope it's it's a manufacturer's flaw or a manufacturer's defect
you got 30 years 30 years i'm not even sure i've got 30 years of hunting left let me see to do the
math yeah pretty close pretty close if i'm lucky i'll still be god willing i'll still be hunting
in 30 years that means this scope the warranty on this scope for manufacturers defects is going to
probably outlast my the rest of my hunting career so you go okay great that's a that's
a cool warranty todd but say i buy that i buy the scope and i give it as a gift great no problem the
passport protection warranty is fully transferable no questions asked you buy it it doesn't matter
who sends it in with this warranty there is no warranty card no receipt needed something happens
like i said you have an accident with the optic send it back they're going to replace they're
going to repair or replace it the 30-year part there again no warranty card no nothing needed
nothing necessary something happens to this scope and it's not an accident it's manufacturer flaw
leica's got your back you're covered you're set just put it on slide it in go hunt
that said i've got it put on and it's time to shoot which is always the fun part of
these reviews and i'm going to show you once i get this scope dialed i'm going to show you a
little trick with this amplis 6 that i thought was ingenious on how to return my turret to zero so
pay attention be looking for that it's coming but i'm going to put some shots down range let's do it
all right so i promised that i was going to show you a cool feature about this about this amplis 6.
i was a little mind blown when i saw this actually and i i may be just a simple layman when it comes
to this stuff but this particular feature i really liked how do you get your turret back to zero
on the amplis six well yeah there's no set screws you don't unscrew anything with an
allen wrench or anything like that and take it off and turn it back to zero put it back
tighten the ball back down uh-uh this is simple i hold here on the on the dial there's two knurled
rings the top and the bottom hold the bottom knurled ring and unscrew the top knurled ring
and that comes off if you look down in here okay now what i've got how do i do this
well it's easy you just lift it off like that lift it off now i can make more adjustments
if i need to i can totally make adjustments on this dial
sight the scope in drop the dial back in on zero tighten down the top cap and you're done there's
no allen wrenches involved i love this feature about the amplis 6 that's a big selling point
for me easy peasy lemon squeezy leave it to the germans to think up something like that
all right so as you can see i tore the turret apart straight simple i mean
ridiculous i have fired a total of 10 rounds from boresighted to exactly sighted in at 100 yards
let's get the caps back on it windage cap first again that's a capped windage elevation
boom it's done that cap is extremely robust it's not going to bend it's not flimsy
it's everything about the amp 6 is robust including that warranty plan that they have
now here's the really cool part like i said before this is as simple as it gets that cap comes off
it's going to go right back in place i'm going to line up my zero hash
slide it back on and then this threaded little post on this cap threads in to the bushing the
brass bushing here and it's done no allen screws no muss no fuss we're ready to rock
look at that
oh that's so cool just finger tight it's all i need and now we can play she sighted in
make sure my zero's on at 200 on that steel plate and then we'll walk this is gonna be fun let's go
frickin dead center absolutely dead center three 1.75 come up
there's one .75 that should be simple see what we do
dead center
i'm digging this scope let's walk out to four and see where we're at
smoked perfect
that is not a lot of shooting to get a scope sighted in go from mounted i boresighted it
here this morning at the range shot it at 25 got it three shots got it where i wanted it
got it on at 100 walked it in got it within three shots had it exactly where it needed to be
walked it out to 400 smacked the plate super impressed i tell you what if you're looking
you're looking to enter the european market guys this amplis 6 from leica you need to check it out
the price points attractive the features are phenomenal and it performs and you need
to be looking at them thanks for watching until next time we'll see you in the field