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It is nice to see that they are moving more of the manufacturing over here to the USA and perhaps they’ll continue the trend with some of their existing models as well as their new models. The tube on the NXS scopes are marked “Made in Japan” on the bottom but that takes nothing away from the quality of the scopes. There are some excellent optical companies in Japan and Nightforce uses the best they can get. The tubes and glass for the rest of the scopes, NXS and Benchrest, are manufactured in Japan and then assembled in the USA by hand in the Nightforce facility in Idaho. The new Nightforce Compact as well as NXS F1 scopes are manufactured and assembled in the USA, though I believe the glass is sourced from Japan. But, there is some clarification to be made as to where the scopes are made. When you get into this price point the competition is stiff and we do tend to pay more attention to the little things, so do not be alarmed if we are a bit more nit-picky in this review than with a lower priced scope, it does not mean that we do not like the scope.įirst, I will state that it is wonderful to be reviewing another scope from a USA based company following the very nice Premier Reticle scope. The Nightforce scopes are in the upper price range of scopes with this model coming in at over $1800 (2010 US dollars) retail price. To see how they stack up, we tested a Nightforce NXS 5.5-22x56mm with NP-R2 reticle and zerostop. Nightforce is relatively new in terms of the established high quality scope manufacturers, they were established in 1992 and according to their web page have had the goal of making the finest rifle scopes in the world. This was written in 2010) That seemed, and still seems odd! Once noticed I realized we had better change that since Nightforce is such a large player in the tactical scope world now. Have we really never done a review on a Nightforce scope? (Ed.
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