I have never had one minutes trouble with any of the Elite series of scopes I have owned. I also live Leupold very much. I own a couple of Leupold VX3 scopes and they are even better (by a small margin) than the Elites. The VX1 is not the same as the VX3 scope.
A place on Little River in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, is the lowest elevation of the state, rising to only 298 feet above sea level.
Montana elevation map, Courtesy of Maps.com. The lowest point in Montana is located in the northwestern part of the state. The Kootenai River, which flows into Montana from Canada, through a portion of northern Idaho and back into Canada, reaches a state low point of 1,800 feet above sea level in Lincoln County.