Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Redfield, to a lesser extent zeiss, fading in retail

The Redfield Revolution was essentially a Leupold Rifleman when it was introduced and sold at about the same price. The Rifleman, and Revolution were nothing more than VX-1's, but since they didn't offer a ton of options, they were able to keep prices down. If you wanted different reticles, or something other than 3-9X40 or 2-7X32 then you had to pay a bit more for either the VX-1 or VX-2.

When introduced the Redfield Revolution was a lot of scope for the money. But since that time Leupold has upgraded the VX 1, 2, and 3 line of scopes several times without a price increase. The Revolution remains unchanged and Leupold has dropped the VX1 and VX2 replacing them with the VX Freedom. It's not that the Redfield is a bad scope, it is just that for about the same money in 2019 you can do better, or for just a little more money, a lot better.