Leupold Factory Tour Video — Plus Counterfeit Scope Warning
Leupold & Stevens, producer of riflescopes, spotting scopes, and laser rangefinders, offer an interesting two-part video showing the production process at Leupold’s Beaverton, Oregon manufacturing facility. Leupold is one of the world’s largest scope-makers. Each year, the Leupold factory machines over two million pounds of aluminum. Laid end to end, as extruded, this aluminum would stretch over 400 miles. That’s a lot of scopes. To see how Leupold produces its riflescopes, using high-tech machinery (as well as old-fashioned human craftsmen), watch the videos below.
Leupold Tour Part One
Leupold Tour Part Two
Leupold Issues Warning About Counterfeit MK4 Scopes
In related news, Leupold has issued a “customer alert” regarding counterfeit Leupold scopes illegally imported from the People’s Republic of China. These products bear many of the marks and trade dress of current Leupold riflescopes making them very hard to distinguish from authentic Leupold products.
Counterfeited Leupold Mark 4® riflescopes have begun to arrive with increasing regularity at Leupold’s headquarters for service. These products are not manufactured by Leupold and are not covered by the Leupold Full Lifetime Guarantee. Leupold employs serial number tracking for all its riflescopes, so if you have a suspect scope, call 1-800-LEUPOLD with the SN, and Leupold can immediately confirm whether the optic is genuine or not.
Most of the counterfeit scopes appear to originate from the People’s Republic of China, and have “Leupold Mark 4” laser engraved on the bottom of the turret in a silver etch, while the black ring on the objective is etched in white and does not include the name “Leupold.” The scopes also do not bear the Leupold medallion, a mark all Leupold scopes will always possess. An authentic Mark 4 riflescope will always be engraved black on black and have the name “Leupold” engraved on the black ring.
Identifying Marks (Click for photos): Turrets | Objective | Bottom Label
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GD Chinese are like the BORG
What $**^>Stupid<$$#&@SOB, opened free trade with them?
The LAST Democrat President we suffered… the one whose wife wanted to foist health care reform on us when he first took office. Now look where we’re at, 16+ down the road.
Can you say “One World” without thinking “poor” in between?
If we ever get out of the current recession (I’m not so sure they won’t just call it something else once the public at large has lost interest) what’s left won’t look anything like what we had before 2007.
Thanks for the video.
A dream job for me. In your area, and would love an entry level job.
Tim Brittain
I swear this vid has been posted here at least once before. neat tour though. I own a couple Leupold, one being a big $$ 8-25 LRT with a seriously canted reticule….
That was not a very informative video at all. Instead of trying to show us all the important people, why not just show us how a simple scope is made from start to finish? All i saw were a bunch of parts and nothing about how the process works. I still don’t have a clue how these things are made.