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.
The lower parts of the state, 500 feet and less above sea level, are found along the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the St. Francis Rivers. The lowest point in Missouri is 230 above sea level at the St. Francis River (Dunklin County), a tributary of the Mississippi River in the southeastern part of the state.