Re: Redfield Revolution
I think that the important thing to understand these days is that whatever the name on the label may be, very few scopes are actually made anymore by the folks whose names they bear, and that the actual work is parcelled out somewhere across the Chinese continent.
If you're still looking down your noses at optical products because they're made in China, you're using logic similar to Chicken Little's.
Are non-Chinese products superior? Largely so, but it's equally true that reasonable quality can be had for a reasonable price tag, and the term 'Made In China" is not the spoiler it once was.
Features are the new criterion, and prices are as much a matter of marketing as they are of quality.
For the demanding, the usual suspects are without peer. They are worth their price tags.
But for many like me, whose wallets run rather more to beer than champagne; the remainder of the market holds good and better choices, if one cannot afford the best.
If anything, the more average shooter is well off these days.
My experiences with the less expensive newer Tascos, and perhaps those of others with these new Redfields, seems to bear out such a philosophy.
Time will tell; and so far, time's been a friend...
Greg
