Ruger-Redhawk

I received this from a buddy of mine who owns a gun shop back home.


Counterfeit Leupold Riflescope Warning
Leupold® is issuing a customer alert to purchasers of products, particularly via Internet sales, in regards to bogus Leupold products that are apparently being illegally imported from the People’s Republic of China. These products bear many of the marks and trade dress of current Leupold & Stevens riflescopes making them very hard to distinguish externally from authentic Leupold products.
In recent months, counterfeited Leupold Mark 4® riflescopes have begun to arrive with increasing regularity at the firm’s Beaverton, Oregon, headquarters for service. These products are not manufactured by Leupold and are not covered by the Leupold Full Lifetime Guarantee.
Leupold employs serial number tracking for all its riflescopes, so if a customer finds a scope that is suspect, he or she can simply write down the serial number and call 1-800-LEUPOLD to confirm if it is indeed authentic.
In general, most of the scopes appear to originate from Hong Kong (People’s Republic of China), and have “Leupold Mark 4” laser engraved on the bottom of the turret in a silver etch, while the black ring on the objective is etched in white and does not include the name “Leupold.” The scopes also do not bear the Leupold medallion, a mark all Leupold scopes will always possess. An authentic Mark 4 riflescope will always be engraved black on black and have the name “Leupold” engraved on the black ring.
Identifying Marks
· Adjustments
· Objective
· Bottom of Turret


Ruger Redhawk

SwampCollie

Good post.

Pictures from the website, showing the aforementioned indicators of a bogus scope.


http://www.leupold.com/_images/counterfeit-warning3.jpg

http://www.leupold.com/_images/counterfeit-warning2.jpg

http://www.leupold.com/_images/counterfeit-warning1.jpg

doubleA

The warning has been out for several month's now and can be seen on Leupold's web site.

That's a good reason why I buy all my Mark 4's from a reputable source and not off an auction site such as ebay. If you think you can get a $1200 scopefor $400 you are usually getting a knock off such as the ones described above. As far as I understand it's only with the Mark 4's and notthe vari x's.

falcon

More cheap knock-off crap from communist China. When will folks ever learn?

younggun308

Good post, Ruger, it's good to know the crap from the keepers.

Yeah, nothing good comes from Red China, sure, lots of plastic, but we are the ones who make it good, we manufacture and assemble the product.

bigcountry

When will folks ever learn what? I guess you have learned it all, and get it right?

The Rifleman

The Vari X's are copied just as much as the other ones, just that you have not noticed what they are selling in Wal Mart these days.

It might say Leupold, but is it really?

Friction adjustment my butt, it's just a chineese piece of crap that they put their name on and sold it as their own.

MinnFinn

There is so much bull whooy, both goods, ingredients and food, coming from China to the rest of the world, including the U.S., it's getting to be alarming. Not just the poisonous wheat germ that made it into so much pet food, but ingredients to things like toothpaste that turns out to contain the equivalent to anti-freeze instead of glycerin that got into some Central Am. countries.
More and more I'm looking to buy things made as far away from China, as possible. Unfortunately, that's getting harder and harder.

doubleA

Hold on just a minute, I think I found a phoney.....................

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