Just to clarify, don't want to get any rumors going and start crap around here.

From SWFA:

"I think you may have misunderstood what I said. We didn't refurbish anything.

Upon our purchase, we obtained our own factory. We reengineered the scope from the ground up and started building these with the new design and offering them to consumers.

The scope that you have, based on the photo is an SWFA SS"

And from before:

"All of the SWFA SS, will have a recessed objective lens. There were several other upgrades internally. However the easiest way to know if you have an SWFA SS vs. Tasco Super Sniper is the objective lens."