Cabella's doe not "make" anything, they are purely and simply a big box retailer that commissions manufacturers, like Whirlpool, to make things for them' like Sears does with appliances. Whirlpool is Out of Bidnizz I'm told so Sears is gonna have to "make a change " or go out the Appliance bidnizz....or use one of the off shore guys like LG from ummm? Brazil.
Dunno who was making the Pine Tree line of scopes for Cabellas but it sounds like they've had a change in the sourceing of that Private Label brand of product line.
Private labeling is really common in the food business. When I moved back home to Dallas from Chicago in '75, I worked for a refrigerated fresh dough manufacturer that had contracts with every large grocery chain in the US to supply thier private label store brand products from English Muffins & Toaster Pastry's to biscuits, pizza dough, sweet rolls and cookies - whatever Pillsbury made, so did we & at lots cheaper retail prices...and we were owned by the 3rd largest bread bakery manufacturer in the US that did the same thing for store brand bread prodcuts.
Ron
I doubt Whirlpool is out of business they may have quit or changed thier agreements with Sears which were long running and profitable back when.
Whirlpool owned several brands such as KitchenAid/ Maytag/ heck they may even own LG not sure who controls who these days but I do know I still get updates on my retirement and my credit union account from Whirlpool from my employeement there over 25 years ago.