Posted by 3 days ago. I see it all day with people who consider the Glock high end. You see I had with me a hunting style Unertl scope that had fogged on me. Mr. Redfield designed a series of dovetail based mounts that were used during WWI, which furthered the reputation of the company. Damn. Cook with confidence. But it is a common gunworld myth for some reason, Sadly, John R Unertl, grandson of the founder, passed away on Monday April 27th in Dallas TX. Don’t do any varminting any longer and now both scopes and the old rifle now reside in my Treadlok gunsafe. (2)  You can check at the Ironsight facility I previously mentioned. I promise that there will be  a longer upcoming article about it. Most CNC machines have spindled hearings that are no better than the bearings on most manual – 0.0002″ TIR. If you mean who currently owns Redfield scopes, the answer is Leupold & Stevens (as of 2020). If the Meade name sounds familiar to you, it’s because they are/were a major player in the telescope business. Most CNC machines can repeat positioning to no better than 0.0002″. 0 All the A-list gossip and social pics. All of the personalities involved here were strong personalities in their own right. Doesn’t matter the product – 1911’s, Pythons, revolvers in general, double guns, you name it, match rifles. Sep 20, 2013 #3 fdkay said: Millet contracted with a factory in China to produce the scope (before they were bought by Bushnell). But even the perception of quality is warped and gone; American gun buyers have been completely dumbed-down by gun rags and marketing hucksters to the point where they think piece-of-crap guns are worth their money (as long as they’re black and tacti-kewl) and quality’s price is “outrageous.”. Some years ago I got in touch with a fellow who did work at the original Unertl and had bought out the rest of the bases and accessories  that were on hand when the real Unertl closed its doors. Through out the entire time Dark Ops has sold these optics, it was always represented by Pyramont North America that it was the owner of Counter Sniper Optics, that it was the manufacturer, these scopes were made with the finest German glass and assembled in Rochester, New York. (4)  Warranty on the 3rd generation, Leupold owned Redfield scopes: At the date of this writing (2020), Leupold was offering a limited lifetime warranty on any of the Redfield scopes that were manufactured by Leupold (meaning any Redfield scope manufactured after 2008). I've had "notify me when available" on for 4 different factory loads and 30cal 180gr Nosler Accubond bullets since February and haven't received a single email for any of them yet. People can get angry at me for this but Ruger has a hand in that as well. Below is a Fecker advertisement and you can see the resemblance. As is common for CS games, many weapons are mirrored in right-handed first person view (a few exceptions exist however). Overview and Reviews of Different Rifle Scope Models. Not his exact words but as close as I can recollect. I saved Unertl’s only post on the matter and the rest of the posts were nonesense. cheaper because a whole lot easier to make. To provide additional context: (1) Warranty on the original, 1st generation Redfield scopes that were produced at the Denver Colorado facility: These scopes came with a limited lifetime warranty, which Redfield serviced until they went out of business i… I have the authority to discuss the intimate details of this since I AM the last John Unertl that worked at the company you are referring to. CoD:BO4 CS:GO GoW 4 Overwatch League of Legends LoL Academy Content. Yeah I don’t think it was used on the A5 but if I hadn’t said that some one would have come to the comments telling me how I don’t know anything because they saw a picture one time of an Unertl 10X on a n A5 or some other BS. SWFA sent examples of the QC issues to Tasko with solutions and also implemented a double inspection process. However, their warranty only covers the Redfield scopes they manufactured. The company that would eventually become Redfield was founded by John Hill Redfield. If I remember right my 6x was the one a dealer called a junk scope on a rifle he had for sale. I also recall visiting Flaig’s Gun Shop and admiring the customized guns produced by their gunsmiths. I felt he was tring to get a nice scope cheap so he could resell it. 1st Generation, original Redfield scopes – These were manufactured in the Denver Colorado Redfield facility, and were discontinued when Redfield went out of business is 1998. Our product experts are available from 7am to 3:30pm Pacific Standard Time to answer your questions. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. A model was also made for use on the M82, 50BMG sniper rifle. bottom row from left to right is, Joe Rich, Manly Butts and Sam Clark Jr. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. There is a older Savage-Anschutz 22 that a local dealer has for sale, it is topped by a 12 power Unertl that is clear and sharp with very fine crosshairs. One as a liason to an initial group of buyers. RE: My 2″ Front Objective Tube will not rotate…Isn’t it supposed to do so to correct for parallax and other issues? Legend has it, that Redfield had a great love of the outdoors, and spent much of his youth outdoors hunting and fishing. they dont realise either that all that junk forces good companies to keep making their stuff cheaper and cheaper to stay in business. Thanks for posting it. years later, after both Unertyl Optics and Flaig’s Gun Shop both closed, when I walked into a Pittsburgh gun shop and there on the used gun rack was a 1934 Production Flaig’s Custom Mauser Action 257 W/Magnum bull barrel bench gun fitted with a Unertyl 12X scope. It is the one that that has the markings of 0-9. Or is it best to get new scope blocks and leave the Unertl mounts alone? During the build process, I reached out to support again and they promptly answered my question and kept me in the loop as to the progress of the build. During my time answering rifle scope questions at my day job, hardly a week goes by without a customer asking a question pertaining to Redfield scopes. I have rifles with Lyman style bases and several Unertl scopes with Posa-mounts. Hot New Top Rising. There it is from the man himself. I had a chunk of deployment money set aside in the hopes of finding one of the few (legal) Unertl 10x’s floating around the market to set atop a TBA M40A1 build. The Redfield line languished in obscurity with Meade until the middle of 2008, when Meade decided to sell off all of its sports optics brands. 4 4 & 10 More. I only wish he would have written a book or an article about the company in some form for posterity. (2)  Any records from the original Redfield facility in Denver Colorado have been lost, misplaced, or destroyed when the company was disbanded in bankruptcy. which accounted for several thousand chucks and crows back in the Seventies and Eighties. haha. News from up north: They’re holding a ‘going out of business sale’ in the Arctic Dec. 4, 2020 at 5:00 pm A view of the Brooks Range in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Posts: 374. i think the tall fellow w/ the suspenders is john nosler, pretty “certain” of it. It doesn’t budge at all. Many gunsmiths/gunmakers blame this on Glocks and AR-15’s. Without a serial number, there isn’t really a reference point in time to help determine age. My dad always laughed when he would tell the story of Mr. Unertyl visiting the shop one day, and asked my dad to sandblast a piece of thick glass. "Companies don't go out of business, they run out of money." He even told of using the scope to pound a tent stake into frozen ground one day and the scope  was unfazed. A few years ago I saw a post on TFB where one of their worthies ran into a guy who had a Unertl optic and he was shocked as he had never seen nor heard of one. He said John Unertl was a sniper in world war one for the Germans and killed many enemy soldiers including american soldiers. They were pretty meh if  you are a real 1911 guy. How high quality? No, they are not. The USMC sniper 10X was a fixed power scope but it had some pretty trick features, especially for its time. Campfire Regular. I bought an A1 mount from him about the same time too. Please let me know if I am missing something or if there is a trick to getting that end lens objective to rotate. While there is a fair amount of information available dealing with Redfield’s company history, not much seems to be available in terms of the history of specific Redfield scope models. card. Nope. Hand fit parts meticulously assembled by true artisans. Apr 25, 2017 13,431 17,805. I was schooled as a mechanical engineer because that was what was expected. Did ammo companies go out of business? He seemed a decent enough guy and in the short non-business interactions I had with him I can’t say a bad word about him for what that’s worth. you know how it is. I'm 6' 4" tall and have long arms. Some models are and some aren’t. labor of love because that’s how the company started. CP Scott: "Comment is free, but facts are sacred" The nice fellow allowed me to try several increasing eyepieces as he said sometimes folks preferred one over another but they all seemed to be the same to me. Well that would be all fine and good except they have no ammo available and now with everything going on it would cost me 2.5 times more than when I ordered 6 months ago. I met Rocky one time when he came to visit me with the 1911’s. John told me I was correct in doing so. However, Leupold has reduced the Redfield scope offering down to only one Redfield line, which is the Revolution rifle scope series. The rear ocular lens rotates for parallax adjustment for the individual user. Among current companies those shadey shysters at PSA are doing more damage to the industry and causing larger older firms to keep making cheaper and cheaper crap to compete so as to stay in business in the face of palmetto state armory churning out garbage. Many rifle scope competitor brands were starting to use parts (including lenses) from outside the USA in order to reduce production costs to stay competitive. A very tough optic that was the first to use the Mil-dot crosshairs. I wished Unertl could’ve made a go of it as a renewed company even if it was in name only. When I declined he then offered to buy my scope. Finger a Wincheshter Model 12 (preferable pre 1960 model) verse the 870 as example of quality verse crap. I really cant advise you without seeing the scope. The Unertl employees were true atrisans that made these rifle scopes. When Mr. Unertyl told him it was a $100k military weapon lens my dad said, I’m glad you waited to tell me until I was done otherwise I would have been too nervous. He gave people a high-quality product at an affordable price. Varminter, which accounted for countless chucks and crows on the farms of Eastern PA. Then they keep telling me to replace my order. 1.6k. 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