Rifle Scopes : Need help with Leupold, please!

Welcome to the hunting world. What I would do is contact Leupold customer service.  The guys at Leupold I have talked to are all hunters and really want to reach out and help their customers. They know their product and can get any problems worked out.  They have the best customer service department I have ever dealt with.  Example - I had a 30 year old Vari-X II, 3 -9 x 50 that wasn't holding zero.   I had hunted all over Nevada, The Sierra's and Northern California with this mounted on a 30-06. It had been dropped and banged around pretty good.  I called them and they had me send it in.  Leupold completely rebuilt the turrets, installed new gas seals and got the specs back to original like it was new from the factory.  The cost? NO CHARGE.  The only thing I had to pay was the shipping cost to get it there. It took 14 days from the time I sent it in to the time it came back to me.  If you tell them you are a new hunter they will probably be even more helpful.  Good luck