Re: Any good firearms/optics sellers that ship cross-border?

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:47:30 +0000 (UTC), misanthropic_curmudgeon
<misanthropiccurmudgeon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|I'm looking at upgrading my optics, but local retailers (while being
|great for firearms and ammo) can gouge on optics.
|
|So I'm looking for advice on decent companys that will ship
|internationally. (It's quite annoying that every US-based company I
|have checked so far wont ship outside the US border!) I've found some
|Brits and Europeans who will ship outside their borders, but have no
|idea about their reliabilty.
|
|All ears.

Hi there Misanthropic Curmudgeon!!
Getting optics shipped from the US is, as others have pointed out, not easy.
However, may I point out to you that when WWII ended, the Soviets shipped the
entire Zeiss (or some such similar) factory and personnel to Russia where they
have been busily making very dern fine optics for the Soviets, and now for the
Russians. Their optics are equal to the best available from Japan, China, or
Europe, and their high-end spotting scopes and astronomical scopes are very very
fine.
I offer you a contact enterprise, located in the US, that might be able and
willing to point you toward a source outside the US that might ship to you at
your current location (wherever that happens to be). Go here:
http://www.kalinkaoptics.com/
and look around, then send them an email. I have examined their 6x rifle scope
and it is excellent.
Good luck in your efforts, and if you succeed through this advise, I'd like to
hear of your success and your opinion of the optics.
Best regards
John


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