How Rifle Scopes are made | Integrix
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Polenar Tactical crew flew all the way to Taiwan to do a factory tour and see how Integrix optics are designed, produced and tested. We were impressed by the level of precision and quality that goes into producing a rifle scope but were most impressed by the amount of skilled labour that makes it happen.
Big thanks to Margaret, David and the whole Integrix team for hosting us at their factory.
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I dont know why, after all these years, i still get surprised by how good the polenar content can be.
Margaret was also exceptionally knowledgeable.
Very cool.
Thank you, that means a lot to us ♥
@@PolenarTactical It is my pleasure. You're welcome
Also cool with how down to earth they are. Most big channels don’t even respond to comments, and if they do it’s with short/prewritten comments if it’s anything outside of “thanks”. These reluctantly Serbian fucks (Slovenija je Srbija ) have responded to my shit posting comments several times over the years though.
@@TheAsheybabe89 we dont delete comments but now i banned that guy because he was annoying as f
He made some previous comments on this video and i tried to explain that TH-cam is moderating content without our influence and if he writes curse words or posts links, it will get removed.
Also i linked him a video about this issue that i know at YT for at least a year.
But i guess he's some thinking-challenged individual and i dont need that stuff here
@@PolenarTactical what are you talking about? I was complimenting y’all for actually interacting with comments at times in a way most bigger channels don’t.
The next time somebody criticizes optics made in Taiwan, I'm showing them this video. This was seriously extremely impressive. As someone that works in automating all kinds of manufacturing processes, those facilities are state of the art and at the absolute peak of manufacturing technology.
These guys basically hired (or most likely already are) wafer and semi fab experts. Taiwan quality is NOT China quality
I hope they give scopes to the Taiwanese military
Made in China is different to Made in occupied China. No surprises there
Most likely the employees don't show up for work baked on weed.
Yeah, there is a *HUGE* difference between Taiwan and "China"
Margaret is a badass! Seems like she really enjoys what she does. Taiwan #1
She's amazing!
I was blown away by how much she knows about their products, production line, firearms and gun industry in general
Taiwan makes great stuff, it’s also where spyderco manufacturs their high end stuff, my sage 5 is amazing
@@lukefarris556 I've got a Fieldpiece multimeter from Taiwan that's worked flawlessly for 16 years being carried and used daily. I couldn't be happier with it, especially for the price I paid.
Nah china #1!!
@@PolenarTactical What I want to know: Is Margaret THAT tall or are you guys that short??? 😁👌
1:29
Ladies and gentlemen
Let me introduce the magic snack -乖乖(the green bag on the machine)
乖乖”kuai kuai”means being obedient in Chinese ,in Taiwan we believe a bag of kuai kuai can make equipment work smoothly,so you can see the green package are all over the factory.And not only in the manufacturing but you can also see the snack in police station,school,hospital for luck.
Fun fact:only the one with green package and before expired date is effective.
If the equipment fails despite the Kuai Kuai, do you spank the machine and give it time out before fixing? 😅
@@themastermason1no, we usually spank the engineer for not replacing the kuai kuai on time😂
i loved this and we bought a couple of bags to take home with us 😄
thers are three kind of flavour and each of them are packaged in green, yellow and red. If you use the yellow one, the machine will start having errors, and using the red ones, the machine will malfunction soon
You just know that the expiry date part was made up by the manufacturer to sell more snacks lol
That was really incredible to see. I was ignorant at the reasoning behind the pricing of scopes, but now after seeing the tooling, process, complexity, and how many hands it gets passed off to I understand
I knew nothing about the production of optics and i was surprised by how much quality control is at every step - and how many parts get rejected 😮
Me too. There is a lot of money in the machinery and facilities they had there. And even with all the automation, there still a lot of human touch to make things happening. Considering that the market for scopes is a fart in the wind compared to, say, smartphones, there is no mass production to keep costs down.
Ya those Fanuc robodrill's are not cheap machines. Add on the fact they are using robo arms for automation and have live tooling on there lates. very cutting edge machining for firearm accessories.
That said Vortex there on the left hand side of the screen ladies and gentlemen 😂
@@pittwm Yeah, saw that too, ouch
I met the owner David Ding at a local shooting competiton in Michigan this past weekend. He was standing by his products with a friendly smile and I went up to see what they had to offer, not knowing how good Integrix optics actually were. I didn't know David was the owner of the company at first and he stood there speaking with me for a good 15 minutes about his company and ambition to be the best. I wasn't with a crowd nor had any camera with me, but he still took the time to humbly talk about his products. I was very impressed with the optics I looked through to the point I'm here looking for additional reviews on one before I buy one! Great guy and solid company.
Margaret is beyond a very effective communicator. I'm tempted to postulate that she even has some kind of a hand in the production process - it's clear she has technical knowledge and that she's not just a marketing person hired for this job. She can talk about these things really fluidly, and with some kind of enthusiasm.
And in English too, even despite being in a non-english-speaking country. I'm Singaporean ethnic chinese myself, and I'm impressed.
I would love to see a general episode on Taiwanese hospitality, especially the food and alcohol. The Polenar/Slovenian take would be great to see.
we have something in the works 😅
@@PolenarTacticalIf it doesn't involve Kavalan you wasted their money.
@@danielhenderson8316 we drank 3 bottles on the good stuff on the first dinner.
Also smuggled a couple of bottles back to Slovenia :)
I spent a year in Taiwan in the 70's and met many amazing people, to see the society that they have built makes me incredibly happy for them, they earned it.
I love how they truly embrace their ancient history and still keep it around in museums and such
@@RT-qd8ylancient history of the indigenous people on Formosa that KMT exterminated
Let’s hope they can keep it. Because Biden is serving that place up on a poo poo platter
And they did it with free trade and hard work. Shame that friggin commie Chinese want to annex all that. I hope we protect them.
So cool! I hope you guys do more "How It's Made" videos like this. Great work (bag tag).
Later this year we can go to Sellier&Bellot and do a "how its made" video about ammo :)
@@PolenarTactical Hell yeah! That's exciting, Thanks for responding. My buddy just got back from hiking in Slovenia and I asked him to visit you guys but he's a loser so he didn't and I am sad.
@@PolenarTactical oh yes please 🙏🏼
Here in Germany the S&B is very common affordable ammo
🇵🇭 MABUHAY!! Thank you Polenar and crew for this amazing content.🤙🏾🙏🏾
Thank you too!
It nice to see a company that actually manufactures their own scopes
You guys are hilarious. The humor you are able to inject into any situation is remarkable. Love from Texas to our brothers/sisters in Slovenia AND Taiwan!
Thank you!
Some people hate the jokes but we feel that a serious video needs a couple of comedic brakes like these :)
Cheers from Slovenia!
What incredible professionalism, technology, and processes. Taiwan lives in the future.
This is absolutely amazing. Great video guys!
Thank you, that's good to hear!
This was quite a big project and a challenge to condense so much footage and information in a watchable format
Extremely impressive!
State of the art manufacturing, commitment to quality and Margaret really knows her product.
Hiring someone from the biggest gun market, great job, Integrix. Very smart.
(Magaret has the typical American/Asian American accent.)
This is super cool, modern optics manufacturing is a fascinating mix of old and new tech
her English is really really well! I love UTG's products and I'll be looking into the Integrix optics too!
It's nice to see Samo finally maturing. Just a gift that keeps on giving. Also, this was a huge surprise and from my POV, a big step forward for the channel. Everyone speaks perfect English at Integrix! And for a public rep to be so knowledgeable is a rarity. Great vid!
Men are just kids with a bigger budget for toys...
I would say they added a lot of value to their product by showing what goes into it. Very impressed. I will consider them for one of my next scope purchases
WOW, This is next level. I imagine this was one hell of a tour. Love it.
This is pretty awesome since I'm from Michigan. Looking forward to getting one of these Scopes to test out.
Margaret has action.
I've worked in semiconductor and medical device manufacturing for over 10 years and this video was great to watch. I'm surprised how good the equipment and facilities are at UTG/Integrex and how amazing Margaret and the team were. I'll for sure check out their range of products during my next scope hunt. I'll second the request for more videos like this, looking forward to the Sellier and Bellot tour!
Great tour! I love the info they've shared. In other tours you don't hear what glass manufacturers scope manufacturers use (as an example). Also, not dull and dry! Good job and thank you :).
I could listen to Margaret talking all day. Wow!
Very cool and interesting content. I was sometimes wondering about the prizes for scopes - not that I thought they were not justified, but I wondered how. The production environment alone shows it.
100 points to Integrix for having the taste to invite the Polenar lads!
Very impressive! Just finished reading an article on David, Margaret, and two of the Leapers team's safari in South Africa. They brought three of their scopes, which were fitted to some of the outfitter's rifles. Zebra, Kudu, Gemsbuck, Waterbuck, Eland and Impala were taken.
First time watching your channel. Very funny crew. Thanks for the great video.
Both Polenar and Integrix seem like a company of the lads doing business lads.
Every machine shop i've worked at is like that.
Po moje vsi slovenski TH-cam kanali skupaj nimajo toliko naročnikov kot Polenar! :-)
Honestly impressive to see someone this enthusiastic and knowledgeable in their job, considering she probably doesn't get to enjoy the fruits of their work much
Margaret is wife material.😀 i could just listen to all the technical info she knows and be hanging on every word. jealous of the machines they have there. My limited experience making metal parts between running cnc and qc was more manual than what they are using. Mix of dod to aerospace to heavy construction parts. If i did a tour id be wondering if i could just start working for free for the experience. The shadow graph we had was a 70s military auction piece. 😂
Yikes boomer
Used to work in Taiwan, great people and work ethic loved my time there.
I was ignorant and didnt really know what to expect but we were blown away by the amazing culture and respectful people. To me it felt more like Japan then China.
We loved it there and i hope we can visit again soon :)
Woah, that's some nice machining work, impressive attention to detail
Live in Taiwan though I’m not from here, love seeing you guys enjoying this beautiful country!
Taiwan was amazing, we loved it there :)
I have to say, I am impressed by the knowledge of their marketing director and their factory.
Ok. Im buying some of these optics.
Great video. Awesome information
That’s an amazing facility. Hopefully they will have some great products at affordable prices for the masses.
I'm just happy that you enjoyed your time here and our country didn't bore you 😂
Can't wait to see the full review on the scope!
First time I’ve heard of this brand, went on their website due to the association with UTG, I was expecting Arken prices, but saw Nightforce prices. After completing the video, it seems that these are really affordable for what you get
This is sooooooooooooo interestinng, i'm really glad you guys made a video about the whole process !
Thank you for the feedback
It seems that a lot of people like this format so we're looking into making more of these videos
That was a great video, which is probably why I hadn't got the notification.
Thanks for the post in the feed (or whatever it's called), that's where I came from.
Thanks for the comment!
Yeah, youtube shenanigans as always :(
Polenar humor with high tech production. Goes so well.
Very entertaining video. Polenar Tactical die a great job of explaining and showing us how those beautiful pieces of engineering are made. Also how serious and passionate this company is about what they produce👏👏👏
Everyone working at this company seems to be having a blast. Happy to see it.
That's one thing we weren't able to show in this video, people working at the factory were all in a good mood and highly motivated. They accepted us like we were family and showed us the whole production. The only condition was that we exclude certain proprietary manufacturing techniques from the video
You guys should do a Taiwan vid, seems like you guys really enjoyed the trip!
The trip was amazing!
We're working on something 😉
Amazing tour ! Great video, always nice to see how product are made
Taiwan make really good products .
Their iron sights and cantilever scope mounts are very nice. It'd be really cool if they could offer more options/accessories for their cantilever mounts. Red dot piggyback rings, removable 45 degree offset mount, 1.7 and 1.93 centerline height, etc... I'm guessing that their margins on the mounts are so low (because they really are very well made) that there isn't enough incentive to offer more modularity.
This is my speculation but i think they made some changes in the company because they are coming up with some great products. If the whole company is so down to earth and understanding there is a chance they might actually value your feedback.
Not sure what would be the right channel to contact them about it, but if you have any feedback, ideas or suggestion for future products, you should let them know
Am Taiwanese, didn't even know they're based in Taiwan before you posted about it. Great Video!
Awesome video, very very cool.
thanks!
I want one of their scopes now. Nice video.
murica might have lots of hell yeah channels, but us european have the one and only hell yeah channel that rules them all
This was awesome! Way to go Leapers/UTG/Integrix. Can't wait to try one.
Solid! Very impressive facility and quality control standards
I'll take one of those rejected optics thank you very much
Very impressive manufacturing processes. Incredible as to what all goes into making quality scopes. Margaret knows her stuff!
Very impressed! That is dedication! Thank you! 🤙🏼
Cool video. Thanks
Amazing video and factory ! ❤
My grandpa had scope with crosshairs with 4x
Meanwhile we have telescopes with mf coordinate gridlines and i love it 😍
I’ve literally done what happened at the beginning. Lol
Yeah, me too. I drop myself twice a day at least.
I worked in a class 100 clean room in Florida, we sputtered of SiO2 and Nichrome on the diaphragms used in pressure transducers.
Thanks! Was interesting to watch 👍
That integrix scope😊awesome👌👍
Great tour and good info for viewers the explaination and interactions seems much interesting ❤
Margaret is just amazing❤
I’m going to buy one now. Much respect.
❤❤Amazing !im sold ,ill buy and try them for sure ,nice to see how there made and great to see the amount of work that goes into them !!
40+ years ago I bought the best rifle scope I could afford. It would be about 3000$ in today’s money. That scope has got years of hard use. I hunted in the Subartic at -35°C, and every temperature in between, and the scope is nearing the end of life.
I’m shopping for a new scope, and I know that you need to spend money to get good scopes. This looks like quality stuff.
UTG is a solid company! UTG pro branding is made in the USA. The scope market is flush with low-mid range optics. high end optics not so much so there is a market for higher end scopes for sure.
Super interesting video. Really cool to see the process of manufacturing
Well done, she answered well on which is the "best scope"
What a great video! Thanks for all the insights to the production of the scopes. Both Informative and entertaining.
Im using some UTG mounts and a RDS and I'm pretty happy with them. So it's good to see they can make great scopes as well. It's always good to know alternatives if I need a new one.
15:48 With all that clean rooms and super precise tools and measuring it's card board and gaffa which makes it work at last :D
I understand business-wise, this was a good investment to bring the PT boyz on campus, but it was making me nervous. Regardless, I'm really impressed with their strict adherence to detail, but the QA they've implemented for their products is amazing.
Incredible. UTG / Integrex Taiwan 👍🏽
I love the seriousness of the UTG lady and the utter tomfoolery of the Polenar Tactical guys.
There needs to be a nice balance to entertain our viewers :D
If this is a shill video for UTG/Integrix, then it’s working. Bravo, amazing video!
I'll take your comment as a compliment :)
super cool! i learned alot
very cool factory tour
Beautiful scope and durable 👍
2:30 ahh yes Kirby face on window. Very scientific🧐
this was seriously a fun and cool video! Laughed and learned! Enjoyed the whole video.
Thank you!
I know that some people hate it but we like to insert some jokes and shenanigans through the video, just to make it more interesting :)
thats insane, never would I have known that Taiwan produces firearm parts, extremely high quality ones too
Great video and totally not a vortex in the collimator comparaison and totally not a Schmidt & Bender being compared side to side hahaha
Thanks!
I wanted to show it in the video because that blew my mind but Integrix asked us to not directly show any other brands, they were very professional and respectful about everything.
But i left small hints in the video so people that know, will know 😉
Good one guys.
Love this kind of content keep it up
Thanks for the feedback!
Hopefully we can make a similar video with Sellier&Bellot later this year
Prague just installed new Covid-19 testing stations.
They named them Czech points.
Every machine shop I've worked in still has manual machines because sometimes you just need a single part or need to modify an existing prototype and its as simple as "I need a groove cut right here" and in situations like that it isn't worth the time and effort to create a CAM program for CNC and do an entire setup in the cnc machine.
Those machines aren't really old school either, they all feature a digital read out which tells the machinist where the spindle is at relative to his established zero. It's as simple as putting your part in the vice(assuming said vice is already indicated), use an edge finder and call it zero. As an apprentice in the trade the first thing you will learn is how to operate manual machines. It's important but you really can't make super complicated parts with the type of manual machines shown in this video--lathe excluded. A good lathe operator can make a lot of cool things. Just the other day I used a bridgeport to cut an old chunk of 4140 into something that would let me setup my notebook inside my CNC machine without it getting wet.
-Random machinist who makes a lot of prototypes
Damn. Them tools ❤
Dam UTG has come a long way , everything sucked back in the day but today’s products are pretty bad ass …especially their 34mm pro rings . I’d like to check out these scopes & give um a chance .
Never heard of this brand before! Might give it a try one day!
Scopes is the best and precisient,new my friends 🙏🙏
Nice work!
Thanks!
Very interesting, thanks a lot !
This is a very interesting video, well done! It's like Nasa building scopes, crazy.
Love the small funny stuff, that is just how you all are. 😁
I talked to the guys about the process and they said that QC and lens quality are the two main factors (besides design) that make a top tier scope.
They can produce a much cheaper scope with lower quality lenses and by not checking and double checking everything and they are planning to do that under UTG brand.
Im actually quite interested to see how that goes because from my limited experience with gun optics, the difference between a high end scope and mid tier optic is barely noticeable in the picture and performance, but the price difference is huge
I would not have even consider purchasing glass from China/Taiwan, had it not been for this video. I may actually purchase from this company, given the display of quality control.
In Finland it was at least -40c on most of the country...at my place -43c and some places -48c
Very nice video, very interesting
Thank you
2:10 Love oldschool machines in 2024!
16:10 Wow that cool!
Never heard about that.
20:30 Ah!!Thats cool!!
Can be easy army optics.
Pls show us video how you test that scope!!!
Damn near every machine shop still has and uses manual machines. Those aren't old school, they're modern versions as you can see by the digital read out. Pretty sure that knee mill has auto feed too which is nice.
They're usually used for situations where you just need a single part made a certain way and it isn't worth doing an entire CAM program and setup in CNC. Sometimes its just "I need a groove cut here" and you just use a manual machine for that because its faster. Manual machines(i.e. bridgeport style knee mills) are limited in their capabilities, they cannot machine 3d surfaces or complex geometry.