Bushnell
I notice on your webpage that you say, "One change we will make in 2000 will be to start selling our top-of-the-line Elite® riflescopes under the Bushnell® name. Exhaustive research has shown that the Bushnell® name is more associated with high-end hunting optics as opposed to just high end optics."
I have been informed that the actual reason for this decision is that Bausch & Lomb have refused to continue letting you use their name on your riflescopes because B&L doesn't want their name on products used to kill things. Is this true?
I am a hunter and damned proud of it. I am an ethical hunter. I am a sport hunter, to include trophy hunting, and I spend a fair amount of money on my sport, probably more than most. If your hypocritical stance is the truth, then none of it will contribute to your profits. If I am mistakenly maligning your positon, enlighten me, please.
Unless I hear from you to the contrary, I will henceforth advise those who ask me for advice to avoid both B&L and Bushnell products. B&L for the obvious reason, and Bushnell because you are aiding and abetting such an attitude with your hypocrisy -- if you''d told B&L to bugger off, B&L would have gotten the big hint.
I sent essentially the same message to Cabela's. I see no reason not to put Cabela's on the hot seat if they continue to carry products from companies that hypocritically aid and abet anti-hunters.