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Kahles Scopes

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  • 30-04-2010 12:01pm
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    leupold90
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭


    Anyone have any experience of Kahles scopes?

    I'm looking at maybe getting a 3-10x50 for a .223.

    Any body know of any dealers and any price advice would be appreciated also.


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    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Tikkamark has one, I looked at a couple of foxes through it. Never got the opportunity to shoot either of them but it's a good scope indeed. Irish Shooters Digest will have a list of dealers, their adverts may say they have Kahles scopes, if not, you can ring around. Not sure on price, eurooptics is a good site for scopes.


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    No6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭No6


    A friend of mine has on on his 243, its excellent a fantastic scope!! I have never missed with it!!:D


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    Grizzly 45
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    Next to Zeiss,one of the BEST scopes out there.Buy it and save your change for your rifle purchase.:D

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



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    ronboy
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭ronboy


    Excellent scope. Up there with best of em..;)


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    jwshooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭jwshooter


    kahles ,zeiss, S/B , swro and at a push nightforce .

    the rest are made in a shed in china .


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    gunhappy_ie
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    jwshooter wrote: »
    kahles ,zeiss, S/B , swro and at a push nightforce .

    the rest are made in a shed in china .


    Not a leupold fan so :P ???


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    SpringerF
    Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭SpringerF


    gunhappy_ie wrote: »
    Not a leupold fan so :P ???


    Commercial Leupolds are made in an American enclave in the Philippines from components made in the far east.
    The military versions have a military specified reticle made in USA.
    Thats the only differance.

    Zeiss conquest range of products are assembled in the same factory from the same components as Leupold.

    Zeiss Victory range................dont know

    Nightforce..............Japanese, maybe thats why their so good.

    There is a rumour out there that Zeiss, S/B and Swaro are assembled in Europe from components made in the far east using Schott glass.

    Kahles.................dont know.

    Night vision scopes..........a company in the UK use tubes destined to be Gen3 but fail to meet the standard and get re-badged as Gen2+ capable in the US. The UK company sell them as per the original design specification.

    All these Rumours, Lies and Innuendo are already in the public domain.

    Caveat Emptor


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    jwshooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭jwshooter


    kahles are made just up the road from styer in austria


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    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 15,024 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    And if you win the lottery somtime.Either Hendersolt or Unertel is very good too.

    Commercial Leupolds are made in an American enclave in the Philippines from components made in the far east.
    The military versions have a military specified reticle made in USA.
    Thats the only differance.

    Thats why it's better getting the European version of either Leupold or S&B.They wont have been assembled by somone making a dollar a day in a factory somwhere in the jungle.


    There is a rumour out there that Zeiss, S/B and Swaro are assembled in Europe from components made in the far east using Schott glass.

    Wouldnt be surprised anymore .Source your materials in the cheapest of the cheap country,seems to be the way to go with exclusive brands.BUT still keep that exclusive price too.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



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    SpringerF
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    Somebody paid $7000 for a genuine Unertel ex Marine scope the other day at a show in the US.

    The US Military are rumoured to have sent back all their S/B scopes to Premier reticle because of sticking turrets.

    S/B and premier reticle are since no longer bedfellows. evidently someone farted in the bed.

    I used US optics for years only recently changing to a S/B.
    I didn't have to pay for my scopes until recently either.:mad:


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    Pkiernan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    Used a Kahles in the States.
    Definetly brighter than my Leupold (which is still a great scope).

    My opinion is that they are as good as S&B and Zeiss for mots purposes, and in the states at least they were a bargain compared to the big two pricewise.


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    ormondprop
    Registered Users Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭ormondprop


    how about some of the less popular european scopes like docter, kaps, seeadler and meopta, how do they rate against the big names


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    ejg
    Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭ejg


    ormondprop wrote: »
    how about some of the less popular european scopes like docter, kaps, seeadler and meopta, how do they rate against the big names

    I would not put seeadler in the same group as the others.
    Kaps are into surgical microscopes and are very close to S&B. The owners hunt and started with scopes as a second leg. They are of very high quality. Doctor, Kaps, Meopta produce good scopes and binos. Just a tad behind in coatings compared to Swaro/S&B/Zeiss.

    edi


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