Re: Totally disgusted with Leupold
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Forty-One</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I do not agree with the comments about the SHOT Show reps though, especially at the Tactical Booth. We must have visited on different days. When I was there I saw two old friends. One was a former Marine of some renown in my circles, and the other was retired Army, although he mainly served his time shooting rifles from little birds to protect his buddies, like when that black hawk went down over there in Africa somewhere. Tactical rifles are high and holy things to them.
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I meant no disrespect to anyone's friends or acquaintances, and next time I'll take down names instead of using a generalization. But my experience was pretty bad. The owner of a another tactical shooting forum reported a similar experience.
What's worse, I believe Leupold's brass dances around the issue with the public. I had the owner of a box store about get in my face when I told him Lupy scopes were substantially made in China. He thought I was plum crazy until I had him pull a Vari-X III off the shelf and challenged him to find where it was made on the box or the scope. you should have seen his face!
When he attended a dealer's only show recently, he confronted the "vice president" of Lupy, who told him "only the glass" is Chinese, and "everything else" was made right here. He was actually satisfied with that answer. I dropped the matter. No point in arguing, I can't "prove" anything.
Scott
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Forty-One</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I do not agree with the comments about the SHOT Show reps though, especially at the Tactical Booth. We must have visited on different days. When I was there I saw two old friends. One was a former Marine of some renown in my circles, and the other was retired Army, although he mainly served his time shooting rifles from little birds to protect his buddies, like when that black hawk went down over there in Africa somewhere. Tactical rifles are high and holy things to them.
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I meant no disrespect to anyone's friends or acquaintances, and next time I'll take down names instead of using a generalization. But my experience was pretty bad. The owner of a another tactical shooting forum reported a similar experience.
What's worse, I believe Leupold's brass dances around the issue with the public. I had the owner of a box store about get in my face when I told him Lupy scopes were substantially made in China. He thought I was plum crazy until I had him pull a Vari-X III off the shelf and challenged him to find where it was made on the box or the scope. you should have seen his face!
When he attended a dealer's only show recently, he confronted the "vice president" of Lupy, who told him "only the glass" is Chinese, and "everything else" was made right here. He was actually satisfied with that answer. I dropped the matter. No point in arguing, I can't "prove" anything.
Scott