I was wondering around a local Gunshow checking out all the new fancy tacticool crap I could find this weekend. I had walked past this particular booth with these scopes in it a couple times. I have seen these scopes at the shows for some time now.
So I decided to stop in and have a look. Neither one of the people really knew anything about them. Kinda comical when I asked some questions and niether one of them had any answers and they kinda just looked at each other shrugging there shoulders. So I picked up the most expensive one they had on the table in 10-20x50,which I think was like 500 bucks or some thing close to it.Oh,and it had illumination on the reticle,red,blue and green.
This is where it gets good. The only thing this Kid had was this tidbit of info when I looked though it.
"Its the same glass Leupold has in there Mark 4 Scopes,no difference". It also had some horrible mill-dot holdover crappy multi reticle.The eye focus knob did nothing,as well as parallax knob did nothing either.
I look up with a puzzled look and tell him I can get my Leupold to focus,this one will not. He explain's its because we are inside and the wall is to close,I would say about 50 yards out is the wall. Flip the scope over,"made in china" was on the bottom. I asked just for curiousity since it was all 1/8th inch MOA,what the max elevation and windage adjustment was. Kid didnt know,so He made a phone call,next thing I know Im talking to some guy on the phone who knew way more than I did.
So I ask the question again, what was the max elevation adjustment?
Guy on the phone said 40 is the max. And that he just had some guys back from Afghanistan that used these scopes on deployment for shooting up to a mile.
Then he went into the whole warranty splurge blah blah blah. I kindly set the scope back down and handed the phone back and walked away.
This scope reminded me of the whole countersniper ordeal,kinda comical but kinda not since people buy this stuff and spend good hard earned money on it.
So I decided to stop in and have a look. Neither one of the people really knew anything about them. Kinda comical when I asked some questions and niether one of them had any answers and they kinda just looked at each other shrugging there shoulders. So I picked up the most expensive one they had on the table in 10-20x50,which I think was like 500 bucks or some thing close to it.Oh,and it had illumination on the reticle,red,blue and green.
This is where it gets good. The only thing this Kid had was this tidbit of info when I looked though it.
"Its the same glass Leupold has in there Mark 4 Scopes,no difference". It also had some horrible mill-dot holdover crappy multi reticle.The eye focus knob did nothing,as well as parallax knob did nothing either.
I look up with a puzzled look and tell him I can get my Leupold to focus,this one will not. He explain's its because we are inside and the wall is to close,I would say about 50 yards out is the wall. Flip the scope over,"made in china" was on the bottom. I asked just for curiousity since it was all 1/8th inch MOA,what the max elevation and windage adjustment was. Kid didnt know,so He made a phone call,next thing I know Im talking to some guy on the phone who knew way more than I did.
So I ask the question again, what was the max elevation adjustment?
Guy on the phone said 40 is the max. And that he just had some guys back from Afghanistan that used these scopes on deployment for shooting up to a mile.
Then he went into the whole warranty splurge blah blah blah. I kindly set the scope back down and handed the phone back and walked away.
This scope reminded me of the whole countersniper ordeal,kinda comical but kinda not since people buy this stuff and spend good hard earned money on it.
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