They are about the second best, The Leupold is the best, Redfield being right up there, just my opinion of course, I have tried a lot of scopes, and nothing, Bushnell, Bausch, Simmons, etc, even comes close. Nikon isn’t bad, Both Nikon and Redfield are made in Japan, Leupold is made in The US, There are other scopes available, But most are unaffordable for most people. Most people shoot once a year, the scope does fine, take it out every day and see what happens to it. The ACOG is a great scope, fairly priced too, but not a conventional scope. Mainly long eye relief, rail mount, assault type rifle.
Leupold now makes the Redfield scopes, according to a local sporting good store owner, there are a couple of models of Redfield scopes that are the exact copies of the Leupold scope at a much cheaper price. I can only assume he knows what he is talking about.
Redfields are indeed quality scopes at reasonable prices. Nikons are excellent, too. I would say they’re neck-in-neck as far as overall value (bang for your buck). I’ve owned Simmons, Burris, Bushnell, Leupold, and Nikon, and of them all, the Nikon has been the best. I have it on top of my Savage Model 10 in . 308, and despite using that gun heavily, it has yet to lose zero. My Leupold I put on top of my M1A, and perhaps it’s just the mount, but I’ve been less satisfied with that one than I have with my Nikon.
Redfield, Leupold = 1 in the same.
Redfield had the lead yrs ago against ALL scopes until they swapped hands to a foriegn manufacturer and quality fell off the table (literally).
Leupold has copied everything Redfield had to offer from the Jr. mounts to the Illuminator scopes and has taken it as far as saying they invented what Redfield did 25 ys ago and pushed their name past em by buying the Redfield name out. I hope a Leupold manager/spokes person is reading this also. 2nd place is not as good as first is it?
Own 4 Redfield scopes in the 4×12x40 Obj and 2 are 30+ yrs old and still work flawlessy.
They are about the second best, The Leupold is the best, Redfield being right up there, just my opinion of course, I have tried a lot of scopes, and nothing, Bushnell, Bausch, Simmons, etc, even comes close. Nikon isn’t bad, Both Nikon and Redfield are made in Japan, Leupold is made in The US, There are other scopes available, But most are unaffordable for most people. Most people shoot once a year, the scope does fine, take it out every day and see what happens to it. The ACOG is a great scope, fairly priced too, but not a conventional scope. Mainly long eye relief, rail mount, assault type rifle.
Redfield is just the economy line of Leupold now. Take that for what it’s worth. Sounds like a good scope though and I’d love to have one.
Leupold now makes the Redfield scopes, according to a local sporting good store owner, there are a couple of models of Redfield scopes that are the exact copies of the Leupold scope at a much cheaper price. I can only assume he knows what he is talking about.
Redfields are indeed quality scopes at reasonable prices. Nikons are excellent, too. I would say they’re neck-in-neck as far as overall value (bang for your buck). I’ve owned Simmons, Burris, Bushnell, Leupold, and Nikon, and of them all, the Nikon has been the best. I have it on top of my Savage Model 10 in . 308, and despite using that gun heavily, it has yet to lose zero. My Leupold I put on top of my M1A, and perhaps it’s just the mount, but I’ve been less satisfied with that one than I have with my Nikon.
Redfield, Leupold = 1 in the same.
Redfield had the lead yrs ago against ALL scopes until they swapped hands to a foriegn manufacturer and quality fell off the table (literally).
Leupold has copied everything Redfield had to offer from the Jr. mounts to the Illuminator scopes and has taken it as far as saying they invented what Redfield did 25 ys ago and pushed their name past em by buying the Redfield name out. I hope a Leupold manager/spokes person is reading this also. 2nd place is not as good as first is it?
Own 4 Redfield scopes in the 4×12x40 Obj and 2 are 30+ yrs old and still work flawlessy.