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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sancho" data-source="post: 3365137" data-attributes="member: 27039"><p>In 2012, I visited the Beijing store that had previously sold 8x30 green rubber-armoured habichts. Basically an office in the corridor of a regular office-building, kitted out inside with display cases. (Anyone who's been to Beijing and searched out the more unusual stores that aren't aimed at foreigners will know the kind of place I'm referring to).  He had a bewildering array of optics, mostly alphas but a very unusual selection of models. He showed me IF green 7x42 habichts, but had no 8x30 in stock. He said he could get them. He made a phone call and I heard his end of the conversation. It would take three days to get me a pair. Unfortunately I was leaving next day. I don't know who he was speaking to, but put it this way...the conversation was in Chinese, not German, so it wasn't Absam...</p></blockquote><p></p>