Swift scopes are made in Keorea "That's south not north"

 

I stand corrected that's Korea! I don't know of any scopes made in Keorea! and yes that's still South...:bthumb:

 

American made scopes? Some Leupold, Redfield sort of (assembled here and some parts made here I think), Zeiss Conquest. I believe that is about it. Burris probably makes some parts here also. Someone else can tell for sure.
9 fingers

 

A little side trip, if you please:

Did y'all see the ABC news last week of the young Dallas family who thought they bought "Made in the USA"? They thought wrong, nothing in their house was made in the USA. Very interesting...

Back on topic, please.

 

Even the American made scope have lense made in Japan. The label might say made in USA but the glass was imported from japan even on the leopold scopes.

 

This is from Swift's site : USA Made, BaK7 Schott Glass.
http://pdf.thesportsmonkey.com/thesportsmonkey/catalog/hunting_catalog.pdf
Don't have mine in front of me to check where it was assembled, it was somewhere in the Asia's.

Rich

 

My 3 Swift Scopes have Made in Korea on them and the Sports Monkey, a distributor of Swift, has told me the same....all their scopes made in Korea. Swift Optics has been around since the late 1920s in the U.S.A., making optics products, microscopes, binoculors and etc. But Swift sold off the rifle scope part of company around 4 years ago.

 

Definition:
Made in USA = Assembled in USA where all significant parts are USA made parts.
Built in USA = Assembled in USA from USA and imported parts.

1. The higher end Burris scopes like Black Diamond, Euro, and Signature series are Made in USA.
2. US Optics are Made in USA.
3. Some Trijicon are Made in USA.

The following scopes as a minimum, are built in USA.
1. All Leupold goldring riflescopes and Redfield Revolution riflescopes are built in the USA.
2. Zeiss Conquest are built in the USA.
3. Counter Sniper optics are built in the USA, or so I have been told,
4. Nightforce are built in the USA.
5. Pentax Lightseeker are built in USA (by Burris).
6. Premier Reticle are built in USA

To complicate things, some of those companies are foriegn owned.
Burris is owned by Italian controlled Beretta Holding Company.
Zeiss is German owned
Pentax is Japanese owned

Things sometimes change so fast, it is hard to keep track. For example, Redfield scopes were made/built in the USA, until 1998, when USA manufacturing plant closed. From 1998 to about 2005, Redfield scopes were imported from Asia. In 2008, Leupold bought Redfield name from Meade, and now Redfields are built in USA.

The list is much larger on imports: Bushnell, Burris (lower end scopes like Timberline and Fullfield), Weaver, Sightron, Vortex, Mueller, Pentax (non-Lightseekers), Nikon, Zeiss (not Conquest series), Schmidt Bender, Meopta, Tasco, Simmons, Kahles, Barska, A1 optics, NCStar, BSA, Centerpoint, Clearidge, Yukon, Cabela brands, Swarovski, Falcon, Hawke, Super Sniper, Millet, .....

 

Thanks MGT, I don't know how we would get by without you! Seriously, your knowledge of optics and the industry is phenomenal.
9 fingers

 

Thanks for all the help guys !

 

http://swfa.com/Swift-Premier-Rifle-Scopes-C197.aspx this should help you especially whenyou get down toward the bottom. They do say made in the USA

 

MGT is the most knowledgeable person on optics on this site
His knowledge has helped me many times and countless others

Thankyou MGT for all you do for RFC

 

MGT is the most knowledgeable person on optics on this site
His knowledge has helped me many times and countless others

Thankyou MGT for all you do for RFC

+1, enthusiastically.

Most interesting that the Burris "Euro" scopes are "Made in USA".......

 

Swift's website info states the optics used in their scopes is "U.S.A made Bak7 schott glass"....do not interpret this to mean Swifts scopes are made in the U.S. The glass used in their scopes may be made in the U.S., but the scope itself is made/assembled in Korea.

By the way, I own several Swift scopes, all the same model 6-18x44 A.O., that I've bought over the last 2 years or so. All of them mounted on centerfire rifles that I target shoot with on a fairly regular basis. Glass is clear and bright in them; they track OK; and I've not had any problems with them. I'd not hesitate to buy another Swift scope.