Quality of Repro scopes for NO4 T

[Roger Payne]

I have no experience of owning any of the repro's - I suppose some of them must be ok...........but from what I have heard & seen there is a huge quality gulf between the originals & the copies. Maybe we shouldn't be too surprised about this. The real ones were made under wartime military contracts when the UK was fighting for its very existence, whereas the repro's are made by enterprising Pacific Rim companies who have seen an opening in the market in which they can make some money. And the cheaper they can produce the scopes the more profit they make......

I suppose what I am trying to say is that the originals were made up to a standard & the copies (I suspect) are made down to a price. I always bore this old axiom in mind when I was getting my No32 brackets made.....

Out of curiosity, I wonder what the retailers are like in replacing scopes which have been purchased & then found to be defective??

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[Strangely Brown]

The real ones were made under wartime military contracts when the UK was fighting for its very existence, whereas the repro's are made by enterprising Pacific Rim companies who have seen an opening in the market in which they can make some money. And the cheaper they can produce the scopes the more profit they make......

This is probably a convenient time to mention that any replica scopes would not be eligible in NRA (GB) competitions at Bisley; whilst they would be allowed to enter an NRA sniping competition their scores would be for "honours" only and not qualify for the competition.