RE: New re-designed Simmons and Redfield scopes
I found an article about these scopes in SHOOTING TIMES this month.........
Simmons line of scopes will now be made in China BUT, in a brand new facility built by Americans specifically for the production of Simmons scopes, managed by Americans, and owned by Americans.
The Redfield scopes will be assembles in the States at Meades manufacturing facility and will include components made in the US as well as in its China Operation.
The NEW Redfield scopes will have a 5X magnification range. Which means that a typical 3-9X scope has a 3X magnification range. Redfields variable will be a 3-15x52 scope and will also feature a constant eye relief of 4 inches.
Another very nice feature of both lines will be a 100% one piece tube construction. This not only includes the main tube and objective end typical of all other one piece tubes but also the eyepiece as well all the way to the rubber eye guard.
For anyone interested in these new scopes the article is definetly worth reading.