nikko at one time was made in ***an buy nikko's own factory and was supposed to be on par with mid priced scopes of the time. later they switched to the hakko plant, and then else where (probably prc). theyave always sold decently well in countries that really embrace FT and FTR airguns as they have some solid offerings purpose built for those competitions. supposedly they still use ***anease glass but i doubt it. they are pretty much on par with any of the better chinease scopes, when they work they can be great, when they poop the bed, they put a taco bells restroom to shame.