We regret to inform everyone that Falcon Optics has canceled all 4-14×44mm scope orders. Here is the official release from Falcon:
“We have been studying and testing them for faults since they got to us on Tuesday. We are now satisfied that the optical standard of these new models is consistently poorer than that of previous models. We estimate that around 95% of these units are not up to the standard of the previous models. Some are significantly poorer, most are slightly below average.
At the moment we are exploring the possibility of a major defect in the optical glass, or simply that the incorrect grade was used.
As of now we don’t have an ETA on when replacements will be ready, hopefully we should have some details by the start of next week.
We understand that you have pre-orders for this model, we are truly sorry for the inconvenience this is going to cause. In that sense it wasn’t an easy decision for us to make in stopping this batch from going on sale. Having said that, we would prefer to miss delivery dates than supply product that we know to be below our best quality. We simply cant supply equipment knowing that its not 100%.”
Yes, this is going to be an inconvenience to us, but I fully support Falcon’s decision in this matter as I would much rather they reject these scopes than to let an inferior quality product make it on to the market.
So what does this mean if you preordered a scope from us? First, we will be notifying all preorder customers via email of both this announcement as well as give them the option of receiving a refund of the preorder deposit or they can leave the deposit and wait until the proper quality scopes are finally released. Further more, we received the this information as well:
“We are really devastated, we cant meet any of our orders for this model.
I can tell you that any units that we can salvage will go to RWSnyder in Iowa. He was first to get his order in and he also pre-paid, we feel awful. So if you hear of some getting through then that’s why. Other than that nobody will get any at all, the numbers simply are not there.”
We also agree with this decision as well, since RWSnyder was not only first to place the order on this batch but they prepaid for all of their scopes, they certainly should get any of the available scopes, and if you are needing one of these scopes asap, we would recommend that you contact them and see if they have any available.
This is most unfortunate news as many people have been waiting for these scopes to be released again for several months now. I am just personally grateful Falcon was willing to swallow the pill and make the very difficult decision not to release this batch of scopes.
MEL