Gary Reeder
I heard that anything made by man can be
Saturday, February 11, 2023, 15:39

destroyed by man, and in this business I sure believe that. We got a high dollar Swarovski scope in on a gun trade in a while back that had a $2000 Swarovski scope on it. We didn't know it was bad until we checked it out after the trade was finished and the owner had left. .In most cases if the scope is a high dollar scope I don't worry about checking it out. If the gun shoots and functions fine that is all we worry about.

After finding out the scope was bad we sent it back to the company and at first they gave us a bunch of crap trying to get out of fixing it. I think I heard Colleen talking to them on the phone in the last day or two and I guess they are going to fix it. But they sure wanted to get out of standing behind the scope.

A few years back when the big box stores started selling package gun/scope deals we had a LOT of bad Vortex scopes. In fact we quit carrying them completely. I assume the bad ones were limited to being on the package deals in the big box stores, but to this day I am very hesitant to take a Vortex scope in on a trade. If we get a gun in on a trade or we buy a used gun with a Vortex scope on it I really check it out before we go thru the deal. And we still don't carry the Vortex scopes in the gun shop.