Thread: P.L.A don't even use Chinese Scopes

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

so...if Mr. Chinaman takes said kahles scope and reverse engineers it...copies it ALMOST completely perfectly but say changes the turret caps and puts hexagonal ones on for sake of being different so copywrite doesn't apply....IF build quality and glass clarity is up there.sells them as Chinabrand for $399...who is the looser again???
if the glass is nearly as good and the ruggedness is better.....doesnt someone make scopes you can use as a hammer without killing them??? again who is looser???
once upon a time folks bagged Japanese built items.....then they were considered up there with the best quality wise...now some of the brands once considered reliable are chinese /korean made and quality is dropping.....one of these days we will get a 1.5-12x scope with good glass that wont die and hunters will be happy...BUT manufacturers wont sell many as it wont die so last a lifetime.

Yes, I remember the smirk when people referred to "Made in Japan", not so any more. I do wonder if that derision was deserved considering the build quality of my 1932 Arisaka. Some of it surely was racism, in a time period when Japanese were caricatured as slant eyed, short sighted, little people with bucked teeth. Such erroneous thinking lead to spectacular mistakes, cf. the ends of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the cruiser HMS Repulse.

"Made in Hong Kong" later took over the derision niche, since then "Made in HK" has become "Made in China". The quality is the entire spectrum.