@Bill Norris I do agree that the Arken scopes with the Japanese glass are decent. Are they the best? Nah, I don't think so, but for the cost they surely are. I fully agree with your assertion that the "made in China" is the most annoying. In my case my wife is Japanese so I try to support Japan, but I have a love hate relationship wtih Japan also and lived there for 5 years, so think I understand it pretty well. Still, the made in China makes me queazy thinking about them f#@$ing us like they are.
RE: Chinese. The EP-5 is listed as having Japanese ED Glass.
So, instead of the nasty Chinese, I guess my money went to the nice folks who gave us Pearl Harbor and
the Bataan Death March. Irony Intended.
And then I saw this and laughed...I can honestly say that my wife is one of the few Japanese people I truly trust. She has been the most amazing mother to our children also. There is a side of the Japanese that followed the Nazis also, they were fighting with the Germans in WWII. The uniforms in the education system are reminicent of Germany.
I don't plan to buy a lot of Arken scopes, but I do have one other Chinese scope, it's a Primary Arms 4-14x44 FFP. Not a bad scope, I use it on my 308, it has a 308 BDC reticle.
I have 2 other Vortex scopes I like. Both are Gen 1 Viper PSTs, made in the Philipines.
My Arken is an EP-8 1-8x28 LPVO, and I plan to use this for hunting.
One day I will buy a Trijicon, Steiner, Nightforce or other decent scope, but I'm not flush with cash at the moment. I have way more than I really need. Or maybe Arken will do like Apple did and bring their manufacturing back onshore. If the owner is truly a Vet, you would think he would want to bring it back onshore. Or do we need to get in a war with Taiwan to make him see that??? The box my scope came in was the quality of an Apple box, the opening experience was very good. The box on my Primary Arms scope looks and feels like what I would imagine Chinese toilet paper to feel like.
I hope the pigs don't mind that I'm hunting them with a Chinese scope.
