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.
Minnesota base map, Courtesy of Maps.com. Minnesota elevation map, Courtesy of Maps.com. The lowest point in the state is at the shoreline of Lake Superior (602 feet above sea level). The highest point in Minnesota is Eagle Mountain, located in Cook County, in northeast Minnesota, about 20 miles northwest of Grand Marais. Just south of Mound Lake, Eagle Mountain reaches 2,301 feet above sea level.