Thread: Kahles issues?

Any issues with Kahles optics? I recently purchased some Kahles bino's and after only 9 months they had to be returned to the factory for new lenses, case and the hinge repaired....
I know, readers will prob think that I'm some rough as guts, knuckle dragging, window licking redneck, who destroyed a top quality pair of bino in under a year?
Well, while some of this may be true. I have owned a pair for over 15 years, take great care of them and treasure them as one of my better purchases. I then decided to buy a pair for my brother as a birthday gift last year. He is ultra fussy with his gear, but, in the first month the case fell apart, next trip out the hinge became as worn and slogged out as a whore's money-maker, and in no time the lenses on the eye end only were so scratched they were next to useless. The had only ever been wiped clean with the supplied cloth, not a brick. Kilwell sent them away, $400 later, new lenses, tightened hinge, equally crappy replacement, but now camo, case. They now owe me $1800 all up. These were the 6th and last Kahles optics I will be buying. Anybody else had any problems with late model Kahles gear??