Leupold has a new full-sized red dot on the market, and it’s aimed squarely at shooters who wear their optics out. The LCO Pro F2 arrives with a redesigned aluminum housing, a reworked lens system and battery life measured in years rather than months, positioning it as the company’s answer for competition, duty and defensive use.
The optical system centers on a premium aspheric lens, which Leupold recessed into the housing to cut glare and shield it from impact. Magnification holds at a true 1X with unlimited eye relief, so the sight picture reads the same whether a shooter’s cheek weld is textbook or improvised. Four reticle options ship on the LCO Pro F2: a 1-MOA dot, a 65-MOA circle and versions of each with compass points added for faster orientation. Windage and elevation adjust in half-MOA clicks.
Brightness runs across 20 daylight settings and 10 dedicated to night vision use, controlled through a rotary dial that does double duty. A quick half-turn cycles through the full illumination range in either direction, useful for jumping from a dim indoor bay to bright sun without hunting for the right setting one click at a time, while slower turns allow finer adjustment once a shooter has settled on a brightness level. Leupold calls the feature a Rapid Illumination Dial.
Battery life is the number likely to catch the most attention: 30,000 hours off a single CR123A. Leupold gets there through motion-sensing technology that puts the unit to sleep after five minutes without movement and wakes it the instant the rifle moves again. A separate lockout mode disables that sensor entirely, which keeps a shooter's chosen settings from changing by accident during storage or transport.
The housing itself is machined from a single piece of aluminum in Leupold’s Beaverton, Oregon, factory, and the sight ships waterproof and fogproof in either matte black or flat dark earth.
“This is an all-new product design that’s a leap forward in every way,” said Nic Kytlica, Leupold’s product line manager. “It provides the construction, the technology and the confidence that elite shooters and professionals depend on.”
Leupold backs it with the company's lifetime guarantee. The LCO Pro F2 carries an MSRP of $899 and is built to sit on rifles, shotguns or pistol-caliber carbines alike. Go to leupold.com.
