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.
but one thing to point out. Delaware is not the lowest high point state (as you point out in Day 37). Florida has a lower high point (see Day 90). I have known that Delaware has the SECOND lowest high point for a long time, since i am from there (lived about  mile from Ebright Road.