
Since 1957, in a small town where Germany's legendary optics industry was founded hundreds of years ago, Schmidt & Bender has been devoted to one thing only: building the finest riflescope money can buy.
Scopes are all Schmidt and Bender make. They don't make binoculars, or cameras, or crystal, or "amateur" optics, or anything else that would distract them from their commitment to the hunter and shooter.
Some companies build as many scopes in a week as Schmidt and Bender build in a year. And that's OK. They have never been concerned about quantity only producing the best quality.
There is an old saying in hunting that "you can't hit it if you can't see it." And Schmidt and Benders job is to make sure you see it. Under conditions that other scopes simply are not built to handle.

Schmidt & Bender scopes were originally designed for hunting from a stand by moonlight in Germany, where night hunting is legal. That explains the exceptional light transmission and brilliance for which Schmidt & Bender scopes are known.