allan wrote:Boy, looks like a lot of ground has been covered since I was here yesterday.
I'll just add that IMO, Asian optics in general have come a LONG way in recent times (And I'm old enough to remember when we thought anything coming out of Japan was rubbish!)
I have various brands here made in Japan, South Korea (Bushnell's Nitro) and Philippines.
The last Sightron I bought (STAC 4-20X50 SFP MOA-2 - Ideal for the OP's intended use but more than his budget) is made in The Philippines but it's certainly proving to be a decent scope from what I've seen so far.
Japanese optics have been excellent for many decades, Chinese optics were very poor for a long, long time, so finding "Made in Japan" on your Tasco, or Nikko-Stirling made them worth hanging on to. But now the Chinese probably make the equipment the "not made in China" manufacturers are using to produce their scopes, and their glass technology has really stepped up