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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Oldtrader3 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November/22/2009 at 18:02
Double posted.

Edited by Oldtrader3 - December/02/2009 at 19:41
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These look liked they are less expensive than the Leupold Rifleman. 
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ATK should have bought the Redfield brand.I have to say that ATK has been very good with warranty issues with Weaver products.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Oldtrader3 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November/26/2009 at 10:55
I know that brands are not animate objects but Redfield deserves better than to be some Chinese parts, bottom-end brand.  Does Leupold realize how many people in my generation had a Redfield scope as their first high quality scope?  I scrimped and saved for months to buy a 2-7 Redfield Accurange scope that cost about $100 at that time (3X what a Weaver cost).
 
I still have an Illuminator 3-9x40 Wide Field and am sick because I sold another one that I also had for 25 years.  The Illuminator was one of the first US scopes to have modern multicoatings and glass that approached Zeiss and Swarovski.  It is still a sentimental favorite with me.  I will keep my Illuminator until I die.  Now, that is brand loyalty.  something Leupold should not take for granted.  Especially given that I also had a early Leupold 3-9x36 which failed eventually and was exchanged.  The Illuminator is still going strong!
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I still have my Redfield ultimate illuminator,it was the best scopeI had back in the late 80's.It was made in Denver USA.Leupold is the WWE of the optics industry. 
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I'm just a young pup and i have a widefield on my rem mt rifle that my grandfather bought me about 10 years ago. My dad, grandfather, and uncles all have a bunch of redfields too so i think redfield should get more respect than anybody. If they still made them i would have one on every gun i own.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote trigger29 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November/30/2009 at 17:41
Got a widefield on a 25-06, and a .270, and an accutrack, or accurange, or something on a .300 win. They are still fair optics. These were purchased right before Redfield went under.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote tahqua Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November/30/2009 at 18:03
Originally posted by HOLLOWPOINT HOLLOWPOINT wrote:

Quote I don't think any lenses are made in the USA period. 
 
What a bummer! Really Sad
 


The last American made scope lenses I remember were made for Burris by Plummer in PA. I have a couple of these older Burris' and they are great.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3197/is_n7_v34/ai_7859089/pg_2/?tag=artBody;col1

Plummer Precsion Optics were acquired by Edmund Optics around 2001. http://www.edmundoptics.com/onlinecatalog/browse.cfm?categoryid=11
Who knows what's up now?




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