Re: 5X25 Schmidt & Bender
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SurgeonPredator</div><div class="ubbcode-body">But the same time you post your own opinion which is biased by your occupation, ...</div></div>
Yes, of course I'm biased. Almost everyone here is biased, either because they are a dealer, sponsored team shooter, rely on advertisement money to run the site, because they only own one brand of gear and tell everybody it's "the best" or worse yet, they give advice based on the most common hearsay. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as the reader is aware of it so he can judge the information accordingly. That's why I was talking about <span style="font-weight: bold">hidden</span> agendas. Let's just say I'm contributing technical information here and getting the chance to talk about our scopes in return. If that's not OK for Frank, it only takes as much as a PM to make me stop.
I realize though that people are especially sensitive towards my comments here because I work for a certain manufacturer, and I'm going to try to adjust my contributions accordingly.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rob01</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...erroneous connection...</div></div>
With all due respect, I seriously doubt that anyone here has more information on that matter than the journalist who wrote the article (or the German federal police, for that matter) and can decide for the reader which information is "erroneous" and protect him from having to evaluate it for himself. While I agree that the guy was most probably more after taking a stab at a certain manufacturer or simply pissing off people on this board, it still doesn't change the facts, and I can't remember anyone else receiving this kind of protection from inconvenient information.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: deadly0311</div><div class="ubbcode-body">David was I wrong that you left out key details about the usmc contract? Also being a marine I'm completely clueless about what hardware is on our guns.</div></div>
Come on, I "left out" <span style="font-weight: bold">all</span> details of "the contract" except for the fact that our scope got accepted. You still can't seem to imagine that the Corps is ordering a large number of scopes although they are of course <span style="font-weight: bold">not</span> replacing all operable scopes. I don't even know who started that rumor in the first place, it is quite a strange conception that a government agency of any kind would just dump such a large number of functional equipment just because something improved has appeared on the market. Maybe it's because so many people who do this as a hobby like to get the leatest and greatest and can afford it, too, so they tend to replace their equipment as soon as something "better" hits the market. Good for them, but it doesn't seem to work like that for the military.
You know what I consider "leaving out key details"? Putting up a big ass poster of a scope at your booth at shot show, implying that you are the exclusive supplier to the USMC when that status has effectively ended about two years ago, and painstakingly painting over the "Premier Reticles"-writing on the pictured scope with a black sharpie. With stuff like that going on, you may find it easier to forgive me if I sometimes make a more snappy comment here than I probably should.
Regards,
David