Tasco Varmint/Target Scopes?

Anybody using the target turret style mil-dot scopes from Tasco? Got my brand new mail order cataloque and see they are very reasonable priced. Thought one might be fun to get and put on my .223 Rem 7. I know this goes against my axiom of no honkin' big scopes on compact rifles, but I thought it might be a good combo........thoughts??

Regards, Marcus.

Rob1 wrote: NL - Have one of us Yankees buy it and ship it up to you. You guys can't order thru these companys?

Rob - I've thought of that one, too. Only trouble is once it lands here our Federal Customs apply their $$ duties plus the Federal 7% Goods & Services Tax [GST] and we're pretty much back to square one again...

Regards, Marcus.

mr mom wrote: sir north: they go threw your mail to see what you are getting????? so if 1 of us sent you something in a plain brown box they will x-ray it or open it??? then charge you taxes???

General mail, in envelopes, gets thru easy. On parcels there has to be a sticker attached declaring the contents. If it's new merchandise being shipped up it is subject to duties & taxes. Yes, sometimes, and especially since 9/11, parcels get opened. The best way to get stuff home from the USA is to buy it when travelling and then carry it across.

Sometimes a private customs broker, who has a contract with the govt, will take charge of it then also charge a brokerage fee. I ordered a package of 1911 barrel links from Wilson's gunshop in the USA once and by the time I got them in my hand they cost me double. I had bought them over the phone, put on my Visa and also prepaid the shipping. They got stopped at the border, redirected to a private broker, then once cleared came to me, COD for the duties, taxes, broker's fee and shipping from the brokerage house to mine. [That is after I had already prepaid the shipping from Wilson's to me!].

My wife recently ordered a book out of the USA. It came in the mail, with a note that it had been processed by a private broker. They also sent a bill for another $15 for the broker's fee.

Such is life in a federal liberal dictatorship!

Regards, Marcus.

Rob1 wrote:  Can't you jump in a boat and meet bear hunter half way and exhange goods

Now there's a thought... get a mail drop across the pond in Port Angeles, WA go over for the day as a foot passenger on the ferry and walk back over loaded down with scopes & such!

Seriously, I am lucky enough to get at least one trip a year down to the USA, so I save up and do a little shoppin' when I'm there... better too if there happens to be a gunshow near where I'm at to. You Amercian's do know how to put on a right fine gunshow!

Marcus.

[QUOTE=bkcorris]So what if someone buys it, ships it and labels it used or partially defective with a false sales slip for $30 plus shipping or something? Maybe fraud, but could they find out? Just change the packaging.[/QUOTE]

I'm sure that kinda thing is done quite often to foil our federal authorities who keep the country safe from new scopes and collect the $$ duties & taxes for the govt to waste. It's just that it's certainly not worth it to me or my livelihood to participate in it...

Regards, Marcus.