That's straight from the page that I linked. Leupold does buy individual components from overseas, but the finished product is assembled in the US.All Leupold Golden Ring® Riflescopes are designed, machined, assembled, and tested in Leupold’s state of the art manufacturing facility in Beaverton, Oregon, USA.
Yeah, I was actually quite irritated and I really have not been happy with it. It has difficulty picking up distances not even near the maximum for a deer that my inexpensive Bushnell will pick up. I have heard similar experiences from other owners on forums. If the target has a high reflectivity it seems to work fine, but on low reflectivity targets it is challenging. If I had known it was made in China I would have found one made in a non-communist country. Being that it was a Leupold I assumed it was made in America.My Leupold range-finder was made in China.
My sentiments exactly. I have not looked at my Leupold rifle scopes lately. The most recently one was purchased about 2 years ago. I cannot recall whether it said made in USA or not. Do their rifle scopes not say made in USA on them? If that is what you are saying, that is too bad.Leupold does source their glass from Japan. (The Japanese make fantastic glass, so no worries.) They also get minor parts like small screws from China, because they simply cannot manufacture or source anything in-house or Stateside when they need 5 million screws at a time. It just makes sense. The scopes are all made at the factory, however. There was some contention a while back about how Leupold removed "Made in US" from their products, and many speculated that Leupold was outsourcing much of their components. In reality, Leupold removed "Made in US" for liability reasons. Leatherman got sued by some jackwagon over marking their products that way, so Leupold decided to CY6 and stop putting it on. Rest assured that the scopes come from Beaverton, Oregon.
Yep, their scopes and products no longer say it. It's too bad that it's all because of fear of litigation. Even worse that litigation would be a real possibility. Says a lot for our country these days...dho3 said:My sentiments exactly. I have not looked at my Leupold rifle scopes lately. The most recently one was purchased about 2 years ago. I cannot recall whether it said made in USA or not. Do their rifle scopes not say made in USA on them? If that is what you are saying, that is too bad.