Curious which tactical scope models are still USA or German made. Not interested in USO or Leupold.
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Rifle Scopes Which tactical scope models are currently made in the USA or Germany?
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German- Schmidt, Zeiss (at least some of them), Minox. Kahles is made in Austria. I'm sure I'm missing some.
U.S.- Maybe U.S. Optics. I know Leupold puts together foreign parts for some scopes in the U.S. Seems like there's one more but I can't remember.
U.S.- Maybe U.S. Optics. I know Leupold puts together foreign parts for some scopes in the U.S. Seems like there's one more but I can't remember.
Leupold, US Optics, some Nightforce and the Vortex AMG are made in the USA.
Looking for specific models
Vortex Razor HD AMG is US Made and assembled
http://www.vortexoptics.com/category/razor_hd_amg_riflescope
http://www.vortexoptics.com/category/razor_hd_amg_riflescope
Which models of s&b? I didn’t know Zeiss Leica and meopta had tactical scope lines. I’ll have to check them out.
The majority of S&B are still made in Germany, just not the Klassik series.
Zeiss has their Victory V8 Series, Leica tries with the Visus series and Meopta has their MeoStars and ZD series
Zeiss has their Victory V8 Series, Leica tries with the Visus series and Meopta has their MeoStars and ZD series
Meopta was who I couldn't remember! I didn't really consider Leica a tactical scope but I guess it qualifies.
For Steiner, I believe only their Military series of riflescopes are German made. The rest seem to be American made.
The Kahles scopes are not made in Germany. They're made in Austria.
Various Nightforce ATACR models are made in the US, Vortex's Razor AMG is mainly made here in the US, Steiner's T series and Zero Compromise will be built here stateside as well 
Minox's ZP line is made in Germany also some S&B's and Steiner's Military models.
Minox's ZP line is made in Germany also some S&B's and Steiner's Military models.
That's correct. The T series and P Series as well as our hunting scopes (H series and GS3) are made in USA. The M Series are made in Germany.
Fun fact: we make scopes in Greeley Colorado that are sold in Germany.
Sig is setting up to start building some scopes in the US.
Meopta assembles some scopes here out of European parts.
Tangent Theta is made in Canada
Trijicon TARS is built in the US (ACOGs are assembled here).
Elcan is made in Canada.
Browe is made in the US
Minox ZE and ZP are made in Germany. Not sure about others.
Leupold scopes are made in the US and I would not discard the Mark 5 all too easily.
ILya
Meopta assembles some scopes here out of European parts.
Tangent Theta is made in Canada
Trijicon TARS is built in the US (ACOGs are assembled here).
Elcan is made in Canada.
Browe is made in the US
Minox ZE and ZP are made in Germany. Not sure about others.
Leupold scopes are made in the US and I would not discard the Mark 5 all too easily.
ILya
Did you leave Leupold out on purpose?
Seeing how the list you quoted was a list of the ones made in Germany, then yes, he left them off the list on purpose
Whats your definition of "made in US/Germany"?
Are we talking soup to nuts in terms of making glass blanks and grinding/polishing into lenses and then assembled in one house/country?
or are we talking about receiving lenses produced to a spec from somewhere else, but assembled in a particular country?
There are a lot of steps to manufacturing an optic, and I would guess that there are few (if any) that produce a complete scope from scratch.
Are we talking soup to nuts in terms of making glass blanks and grinding/polishing into lenses and then assembled in one house/country?
or are we talking about receiving lenses produced to a spec from somewhere else, but assembled in a particular country?
There are a lot of steps to manufacturing an optic, and I would guess that there are few (if any) that produce a complete scope from scratch.
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