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Yup.... must be brand new...

http://www.opticsplanet.com/tasco-elite-4500-4-16x40mm-riflescope.html

Bushnell?

Bushnell owns the Tasco Name plate in the USA...

figure they are trying to give the name a leg up, both in the quality and marketability departments....

they've been selling the same old tired products ( which still work well in many applications)

They also have some new products that are upscaled over the 6500 series stuff, which look pretty darn sweet...

If I wanted to give a scope a "leg up" the last thing I'd do is label it TASCO!

BIG MISTAKE. Chevy once bought Toyota Corollas and put the Malibu name plate on them, hoping Toyota quality and reliability would give the whole Chevy line a boost.

No one bought them. Why should they? Chevy has no resale value and a crappy reputation for quality control.

Bushnell is making the same mistake with Tasco.

How many are you going to buy?

A $600 Tasco!

I don't care who you are, now, that right there is FUNNY!!!

Thinking it is a mistake by opticsplanet. Tascos website shows no such scope. Bushnell does. Product number optics lists for the tasco matches the number bushnell shows. Also several retailers I checked list the same product number but as a bushnell not tasco. Price listed for the busnells are the same as what optics is listing the tasco for.

I may be wrong but I believe that Hawke bought the Tasco brand name recently.

Just to digress a little. I was in a gunsmith school in Denver when they first came out. If I remember right, their price for a four power was $12. Guys bought them up like crazy. Our school held a sight-in day just before Deer season at the range where we helped guys sight in their rifles for $1. They kept bringing in rifles with these scopes mounted all different ways. After we mounted the scope right they went to shooting. We could not adjust them to change impact point. Then a guy came up with the solution. You would adjust them for windage and elevation then hit them with a rubber mallet. Worked perfect after that.

Sounds like someone is out sourcing overseas once again, don't it?

Like Pete E, I thought if you want to sell a product at $600, I would use another name besides Tasco....

kinda like way back in the 60s, Chevy tried to sell NOVAs in Mexico, but gave them some name, that was slang in Spanish, for Won't Go....

Something just didn't look right, so I thought I'd share it with you guys and see what you thought....

and how many am I buying? half a dozen or so, when the prices drop from $600, down to the usual $29.95....

I guess I'll take one for Tasco. Earlier in my life when I was not nearly as affluent as I am today I used a number of Tascos . I will say most were in the Japan days and most were 4x but I will have to say they gave me good service. Actually I only know of one that failed as most were in use 2-3 years then lost in a trade . The one failure was one I sold to a co worker on a 243 for his kid. It fogged probably 5 years after I sold it. But for the $20 or so I spent on them they did a good job. Were they as clear as the nicer scopes I have today ? No but they were not bad and all I had would dial in and hold their zero just fine. I can't remember the last time I touched the 4x on my 22 and it must be 20 years old.
So I guess it's a bit silly to me to read someone that swears they can't compare to their Leupold costing 5-10 times as much, but to each their own. I can't howvever remember seeing a post where someone posted that a similar priced product was that much better. Maybe the old Bushnell sportviews made in Japan but that's about it in my experience. Having said that I am not in the market for a $600 tasco either though the SWFA are the old Titans if I recall. They aren't cheap either and seem fairly popular.

It wasn't that long ago you would have said the same about Bushnell...

I thump every scope I own after adjusting, just a bit, and its worked fine.

I did have a bushnell, that would not take the adjustment correctly until you had fired an actual shot or two.

I just wanna know if they are blister packed....

Yes, I could buy two USA made Leupold VX2's for that. Or 3 VX1's.

I dont care what name is on the box. If its a good scope and good value I will buy it.

Ive got US and Jap and Euro made scopes but also a couple Chinese made and a Phillipines made one as well.

If they let me down I pursue the warranty and where thats not valid just chuck them away.

Tasco & $600 in the same sentence ??

Didn't you read the "ELITE" script on the objective? Clearly this model will come with both a real box AND see-thru covers.

TASCO's (and Nikko Sterling) fairly dominate the mass scope market here in the UK and have done for years.

The trouble started when they began switching production around the Pacific Rim and eventually ended up with China. You could have two scopes sperated by a couple of years production and one would be ok, while the other would be junk..
When I started shooting I had a Tasco World Class on a .22 air rifle, which got moved to a .22LR and then a .223Rem..That scope must have been back and to the company three or four times in about 18 months and never would hold zero more than three or four shots..

On the other hand, I had a TASCO 4x32mm that lived on an air rifle for years and it was bombproof. The inside of the tube was a really flat black, and the reticule was a nice bold plex..The scope killed a lot of rabbits in a friends orchard….