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<blockquote data-quote="Bang4theBuck" data-source="post: 3045556" data-attributes="member: 73596"><p>I am in no way agreeing with anyone that is scamming, nor do I like seeing any of our products come from far away places at the scale that it has become. However, my approach is a little different. I am not a rich man by any stretch, but I love acquiring different rifles and tinkering with things, and improving them, developing great loads for different purposes and such. I feel like that is probably true for quite a few people on this forum. The problem with putting $2000 scopes on every rifle or even $1000 scopes on every rifle is it limits the number of rifles that can be had, and made ready for fun.</p><p></p><p>As is the case with a lot of subjects like this, everyone has their perspective, everyone has their budget. I choose to have more rifles to have more fun and if a particular rifle proves to be exceptionally deserving of a premium optic (north of $1000), or will be pressed into service where equipment failures have catastrophic affects, I probably wont push my luck with a cheap optic. However, whem I'm out shooting steel with my buddies on any (every) given Saturday, the $400 Arken out-performs a $400 Leupold all day. Dont twist my words or misinterpret what I said....Arken is not better than Leupold, they are better 'for the money', and allow more people to enjoy more features on more rifles for less money.</p><p></p><p>If someome is going to get their skivvies in a wad, they should also consider in my scenario, as an example, when I decide to embark on a new build or buy a new factory rifle, usually american companies and american workers made the steel, made the barrel blank, chambered the barrel, manufactured the action, manufactured the trigger, manufactured the stock and manufactured all the accessories that go with the rifle (brass, bullets, rings, mounts, bipod, arca rail, etc). It seems to me that feeding the economy by doing this numerous times could have just as much if not more positive economic effects than spending a bunch more on a single optic for a single rifle. Just sayin'.....be considerate of others and their individual perspectives and budgets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bang4theBuck, post: 3045556, member: 73596"] I am in no way agreeing with anyone that is scamming, nor do I like seeing any of our products come from far away places at the scale that it has become. However, my approach is a little different. I am not a rich man by any stretch, but I love acquiring different rifles and tinkering with things, and improving them, developing great loads for different purposes and such. I feel like that is probably true for quite a few people on this forum. The problem with putting $2000 scopes on every rifle or even $1000 scopes on every rifle is it limits the number of rifles that can be had, and made ready for fun. As is the case with a lot of subjects like this, everyone has their perspective, everyone has their budget. I choose to have more rifles to have more fun and if a particular rifle proves to be exceptionally deserving of a premium optic (north of $1000), or will be pressed into service where equipment failures have catastrophic affects, I probably wont push my luck with a cheap optic. However, whem I'm out shooting steel with my buddies on any (every) given Saturday, the $400 Arken out-performs a $400 Leupold all day. Dont twist my words or misinterpret what I said....Arken is not better than Leupold, they are better 'for the money', and allow more people to enjoy more features on more rifles for less money. If someome is going to get their skivvies in a wad, they should also consider in my scenario, as an example, when I decide to embark on a new build or buy a new factory rifle, usually american companies and american workers made the steel, made the barrel blank, chambered the barrel, manufactured the action, manufactured the trigger, manufactured the stock and manufactured all the accessories that go with the rifle (brass, bullets, rings, mounts, bipod, arca rail, etc). It seems to me that feeding the economy by doing this numerous times could have just as much if not more positive economic effects than spending a bunch more on a single optic for a single rifle. Just sayin'.....be considerate of others and their individual perspectives and budgets. [/QUOTE]
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