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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Long Range Scopes and Other Optics
Schmidt & Bender Awarded the PSR Contract
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<blockquote data-quote="zupatun" data-source="post: 522505" data-attributes="member: 3533"><p>If you go to SCHOTTs website, call and ask to talk to a Sales person they will tell you they melt optical glass glass in Pennsylvania up near Scranton PA. And in Germany. If you are talking making high quality lenses with AR coatings you can go to Optimax, RPO, CVI Melles Griot, Research Electro Optics and probably several twenties of other shhops in the US for prototype to mid level quantities...the point is your lenses and coatings will cost you maybe as much as 2X or more here in the US or Germany than in Asia...these people build to a spec. The same spec in the US costs more because labor is more expensive and Asia is very agressive on price to secure the large consumer market...period. Our technology is good if not better...we just cost too much and have shiPped our volume overseas for the low med and a lot of the high end consumer markets. Military and prototypes are still made here...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zupatun, post: 522505, member: 3533"] If you go to SCHOTTs website, call and ask to talk to a Sales person they will tell you they melt optical glass glass in Pennsylvania up near Scranton PA. And in Germany. If you are talking making high quality lenses with AR coatings you can go to Optimax, RPO, CVI Melles Griot, Research Electro Optics and probably several twenties of other shhops in the US for prototype to mid level quantities...the point is your lenses and coatings will cost you maybe as much as 2X or more here in the US or Germany than in Asia...these people build to a spec. The same spec in the US costs more because labor is more expensive and Asia is very agressive on price to secure the large consumer market...period. Our technology is good if not better...we just cost too much and have shiPped our volume overseas for the low med and a lot of the high end consumer markets. Military and prototypes are still made here... [/QUOTE]
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