It's not an anti Chinese manufacturing thing. You're right about many things but you're just plain wrong about the knock off rings. You can't tell the difference in a picture. Most people can't tell the difference in quality machining and materials in person. Just thread a screw in a Chinese knock off. They're so roughly cut it almost feels like sand in three threads. The threads are cut loose and the material of the rings and screws are soft they won't hold much torque. Try torquing a their dovetail clamps to Sportsmatch's 55inlbs. I GUARANTEE the knockoff strips the body or snaps the screw before reaching 55. If it does, it won't do it twice. I have the same sportsmatch rings on scopes for years that have been moved around alot and they hold 55 repeatedly with no signs of softening.I’ve got many sets of Sportsmatch and BKL mounts as well as their Chinese knock offs and you’d be hard pressed to detect any difference. Do you somehow think that the Chinese can make $1000 scopes, $5000 drones and airguns like the Hubens but that they can’t produce a simple piece of aluminum properly? In all likelihood the scope you have mounted on your rifle is Chinese.
These are a few of the mounts I have lying around.
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Don't take my information as an attack on you. Most people can't tell the difference. As a retired high end automotive technician and railroad machinist I can. The knock offs can work but they wont be centered in the the dovetail. They're are often tilted and the dovetail angles are usually cut wrong. The scope bores are sometimes offset kinking the scope tubes even at proper torque.
Between my own guns and the others I work on, I've been down this road too many times to let this go. Again it's not personal but there's factual reasons I posted these differences. I don't want people wasting their money or damaging their guns and scopes because they heard they could save twenty dollars.
Be well
Ron
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