Bear Creek Arsenel Upper

[Sixoeight]

I have two Monstrum scopes.

They are so close to other manufacturers. its my opinion these are made but another source & re labeled for Monstrum and other makers.

I have a 1x4 and a 1x6 30MM FFP ACSS Reticule scope. They track VERY accurate and glass is excessively clear and brite. I haven't had them out in extremes of weather or light. They are on Range toys and very serviceable in that role.



I had it ion this Howa to test it as I know the rifle shoots. Now its on a AR.

CW

Almost all of today's budget friendly scopes and even some of the pricey ones are made in China by a handful of companies. A monstrum may be made right next to a high end vortex. BUT they are also spec'd to a price by the company the puts their label on it. Those companies will also decide whether they just take the box of scopes and fill orders or if they will open them up and actually do quality control. The low end of the budget scopes are not magically the same but cheaper, they just spec cheaper parts, and don't care as much about quality control. It's very much like the BCA situation. Also like BCA they are not necessarily bad for the price you pay but they certainly are not quality manufactured products. They were never designed to be. The only companies that build high dollar parts and sell them for bottom budget prices are companies that fail.

The one exception here (and it isn't really an exception if you consider why) is if you give up features. The SWFA $300 fixed power scopes are, by almost all accounts, comparable in quality to $1000+ scopes. That's because they don't require near the complexity of a variable power mechanism, putting more of that money into glass, materials, and QC.

It is really just simple economics.