Redfield has just been a name since production ceased in Denver.
I thought that Leupold resurrected the Redfield name to have a lower cost line of scopes to take up additional catalog and shelf space. I expected Leupold to drop the Rifleman line of lower cost scopes, but they didn't. The Rifleman line always confused me, as the wholesale prices for the Rifleman and comparable VX-1 scopes were always within a few dollars of each other, so there was hardly any financial benefit for a dealer to buy the Rifleman line instead of the VX-1 line.
I don't know where the Redfield lines were intended to integrate with the existing Leupold lines, but the Revolution line seemed to have about the same optical quality as the Vx1 Leupolds.
I have 4 Redfield Revolutions and they seem to be decent scopes.
