Schmidt & Bender Schmidt & Bender ( often abbreviated as S & B ) is a German company specialized in producing high end telescopic sight s for hunting , sports , law enforcement and military arms . The company was founded in 1957 by instrument maker Helmut Schmidt and master instrument maker Helmut Bender . The company started with producing telescopic sights for large German ( mail order ) hunting equipment sales chains under various brand names and gradually started to produce telescopic sights under their own brand name . Currently ( 2008 ) the company is still a family enterprise . Much of the assembly process is done by hand , which is why the company can only turn out a limited number of scopes annually . Schmidt & Bender is an ISO 9001 certified company . This implies all research , development , production and assembly is monitored by an independent agency . Schmidt & Bender Hungaria Optik . In 1992 Schmidt & Bender Hungaria Optik GmbH in Budapest , Hungary was founded as an independent company by Schmidt & Bender GmbH & Co . KG , Biebertal , Germany . The process of privatisation in Hungary made it possible for Schmidt & Bender to buy the production of precision optics and fibre optics from the government - owned enterprise of the Hungarian Opticai Works ( MOM ) . Schmidt & Bender bought Hungarian Opticai Works since this company produced and still produces the optical components Schmidt & Bender uses in their rifle scopes . In 2008 Schmidt & Bender Hungaria Optik employed 80 people . The fixed magnification models of the Schmidt & Bender Classic product line can be either " Made in Germany " or " Made in Hungary " . The Hungarian made scopes are normally not offered to US and Western European customers and tend to be somewhat less expensive . The outsourcing of component production or external purchasing of specialized components to or from countries like Japan , Hungary , etc . is quite normal for high end telescopic sights producers . Stating a country of origin often does not guarantee that a product was completely made and assembled in that country . Some competitors of Schmidt & Bender however refuse to provide information to consumers regarding relevant ( optical ) components sources . Products . Schmidt & Bender offers telescopic sights in the : For some models the option exists to have mounting rails underneath the riflescope to provide for mounting solutions that do not use scope rings . These rails are an integral part of the scope body and can not be removed . The most recent rail mounting system of Schmidt & Bender is their propriety " Convex rail " . The Convex rail uses matching slide - in mount fasteners to connect the riflescope to the gun and offers the possibility to tilt the scope up to 1° to the left or right . Sniper rifle manufacturers promoting the PM II / MILITARY MK II product line . The British high end factory sniper rifle manufacturer Accuracy International actively promotes fitting the Schmidt & Bender PM II / MILITARY MK II product line as sighting components on their Arctic Warfare family of sniper rifles and sells these products as accessories , which is rare for a rifle manufacturer . The Swiss fire arms manufacturer Brügger & Thomet ( B & T ) uses specially made Schmidt & Bender 3 - 12x50 PM II LP product line scopes with a B & T designed TRS reticle pattern for their APR bolt action sniper rifles . The German fire arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch ( H & K ) uses Schmidt & Bender 3 - 12x50 PM II telescopic sights as standard aiming optics for their PSG1A1 semi - automatic sniper rifles .