Well maybe I'm that 10% then. I have a few zcos sitting here and just ordered a $4400 march. Owned literally everything on the market from TT to Minox to Kahles to S&B down to Vortex and Leupold.
Glass is important but tracking and durability are way more important. Almost every one of those Chinese made scopes has significant issues when you run them. If all you do is look through the glass then fine. But when you are running them every week bouncing around in trucks and falling over racks and dropping off props you quickly figure out what holds up and what doesn't. Arken was the big push a few years ago and all the clowns were buying them. And they were all shitting the bed at matches. Or watching the instructor try to figure out why it wouldnt hold zero at a class. Seeing new shooters chase their tails is only funny for so long before it becomes a distraction to everyone else.
There are already PLENTY of decent options in the $1K market. Asian Burris, Quasi-Asian Leupolds, Japp OEM and whatever the hell steiner usa ultimately is. too numerous to name. All well established brands. I own a bunch of those "cheaper" optics on hunting guns, plinking shit, ARs ect. Not everything gets a $4-5K optic. Too many guns and not enough sugar momma. Why would I buy chinese or no name anything for $1K when there are alrerady a bunch of good options for pretty much every shooting niche out there?
It seems every month some new name is poping up trying to get a segment of the market. Its a saturated market and there must be a shit load of money in branding and reselling OEM shit becuase people keep doing.
Now I could go on a whole spiel how transfering knowledge and technolgy to advance chinese elcectro optical industry (which is what western companies do in almost every industry to get a foothold there) is tanamount to treason by helping to arm and advance our enemy but we can save that for another day. How industrial and technological espionage is the biggest threat to national security and takes up an astronomical part of our national intellegence budget. How so much of the price we all pay is baked in to combat these chicom cucksuckers and their fellow travelers. Any semi patriot American (and I get you were not born here) should stop and think about what the implications of their purchases are. Where their money is going and who is ultimatley benefiting.
Ignore all that and its still dumb to buy inferior chinese shit when you can buy american and semi american products for the same money that are much higher quality.
