I see it in photography too; buy an expensive camera body, then attach the cheapest zoom lens available.breacher wrote:True - looks are no real indication of what you are actually going to get.Oddbod wrote:I've examples of both Harris & the Chines knock-off's & to look at, they're near identical.
It's only once they're being used as intended that the quality of the Harris shines through, with the tilt lock on the copies not locking up & the leg on one knock-off actually fracturing through a notch.
Buy quality & buy once, whilst at the same time avoiding failure at a critical moment.
A £20 car tyre made by the Tang Wang Corp in China might look as shiny and nice as a GoodYear but there will be no comparison in performance.
Never ceases to amaze me the number of people who understand this principle when it comes to rifles and buy a decent rifle. Then they seem to forget it when buying a scope or bipod.
My serious bipods are Harris & I happily shelled out for a mix of Leupold, Zeiss & S&B scopes (OK so I'll admit to having a Sharps Innova wearing a Tasco Pronghorn for rat killing in my back yard...).