black powder
CGN Regular
- Location
- Saint Hippolyte
Before I bought my WCE I used a 3200. While the WCE glass is far better then the 3200, on a wet rainy day I would rather have the 3200 with it's Rainguard.
It's part of shooting industry history! David Bushnell was a leader in the industry, not by making the product, but by seeing the market and then finding the products. He also started the "have someone else make it and put your name on it" which is so common today in sports optics. On a trip abroad after WWII he picked up a pair of binos which were scarce to consumers in the US and in demand. He ordered like 400 from Japan and sold them in minutes and that is how Bushnell got started in sports optics.
What is weird Bushnell's primary supplier in the early years was the Asahi Optical Co.. The wife of the owner made the comment that in the early years after WWII, what was on the table for dinner depended on orders from their now good friend David Bushnell ( for a jap to call an american a friend after WWII was next to knighthood). In the 60s Asahi Optical Co. renamed itself Pentax.
Bausch and Lomb history is also interesting considering their ties with Zeiss in the years before WWI. At one time Zeiss owned 20% of B&L which gave B&L access to all of Zeiss's technical knowledge of the time. B&L was the only supplier of high-end optics (the old term was "scientific glass") in the western hemisphere till the last of the 20th century. B&L was considered so important to national defense that Navy personnel were assigned to the plants from WWI till the end of WWII.
It's part of shooting industry history! David Bushnell was a leader in the industry, not by making the product, but by seeing the market and then finding the products. He also started the "have someone else make it and put your name on it" which is so common today in sports optics. On a trip abroad after WWII he picked up a pair of binos which were scarce to consumers in the US and in demand. He ordered like 400 from Japan and sold them in minutes and that is how Bushnell got started in sports optics.
What is weird Bushnell's primary supplier in the early years was the Asahi Optical Co.. The wife of the owner made the comment that in the early years after WWII, what was on the table for dinner depended on orders from their now good friend David Bushnell ( for a jap to call an american a friend after WWII was next to knighthood). In the 60s Asahi Optical Co. renamed itself Pentax.
Bausch and Lomb history is also interesting considering their ties with Zeiss in the years before WWI. At one time Zeiss owned 20% of B&L which gave B&L access to all of Zeiss's technical knowledge of the time. B&L was the only supplier of high-end optics (the old term was "scientific glass") in the western hemisphere till the last of the 20th century. B&L was considered so important to national defense that Navy personnel were assigned to the plants from WWI till the end of WWII.
