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Hombre0321
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I have visited a few of these talk forums in the past. Mostly to do with Hot Rods and performance cars, as that is of a great deal of interest to me. For the main part I have found them ( Talk Forums ) to have the goal of exchanging information and ideas, and that goal very rarely ever being attained. The ones I have visited have 99% of the time being one huge argument, very little information that anyone could use and mostly just a pissing contest.
I brought that idea with me when I visited here some time back. My plan was to lurk, learn as much as I could, educate myself, and not get involved in the squabbles I expected to see. Man Did I have Benchrest Central wrong!!
I have found BC to be the exact opposite of what I expected. I have asked sevreal questions and in each and every case got answers that not only were useful but accrate as well. the folks have been friendly, extremely helpful and eager to help not just me but anyone with a question. Thanks Guys !!!
A couple or three weeks ago I was having a real bad day. I made a post about that day so I will not bore anyone with reposting it but it is here in this area and is titled " A Bad Day!! Or Is It ??
This post was more of a rant about myself, and was just to get some stuff off my chest. Little did I ever expect to outcome of that post. I got meassages from a lot of folks with invitations to shoot in different places. One of the moderators here has absolutly bent over backwards with trying to get me the equipment and transportation to the Match this coming weekend at Butner, Thanks Charles and I hope you guys knock em dead this weekend, sorry I couldn't make it but I will be there next match. And I want to extend a thank you to all for the private messages and e-mails and invitations. It is my most sincere hope to meet each of you at a shoot somewhere and have the privilage of shaking your hands.
But the reason for this Post is really about one guy. Every once in awhile and sometimes and for some of us only once in a lifetime do we meet a person who turns out to be a kindered spirit, someone you feel you should have known for many years but actually just met. I spent the best years of my life in the Marine Corps, and in that type of a lifestyle making friends at some point in time becomes the very last thing you ever want to do "Again". After you watch your very best friend laying in the sand on some far away place leaking his life blood into the dirt, and there not being one DAMN thing you can do about it, you just stop making friends. It simply hurts to bad to ever go through again. While I have been retired for years leaving that behind is very hard for some of us to do.
Well folks I am here to tell you I stopped making friends one friend to far!!!!!
One of the posters on here who responded to my Rant Post was Bob Pastor. Bob owns a company "Viper Rests" he makes Front Rests for Benchrest shooting and other accesories as well. Bob said in his post that he wanted to see that I had The Best Equipment I could find in starting my Benchrest Shooting Career and offered to build me one of his hand made rest's. Now I thought that was a great offer, I assumed that hand made rests were something like hand made Rifles, and had just about the same waiting time. That would be months and months, his offer seemed to me to kinda skirt that waiting list---Or So I Assumed---Bob had furnised me a link to his web-site I went and looked around, was very impressed but they were just beyond my budget. Bob and I talked and he informed me that he didn't want me to purchase a rest from him, he wanted to build a rest "For Me". Guys I tried and tried to refuse his offer as it was just "TOO" generous. Bob wasn't having any of that and so he went to work. He asked me What I wanted in a rest. Since Bob was doing this For ME i told him "Bob you build it the way you want to".
Folks this Rest came in on the Big Brown Truck today. I have just gotten to the point were I can type this message and not drool all over the keyboard, I have already drooled all over the rest all day, and as a matter of fact right now it is on the floor next to my bed as I am not letting this thing out of my sight for awhile. Here are a few pictures and a link to Bob's site.
www.viperbench-rest.com
Bob, mere words will never be able to express my thanks Buddy. You are a true brother!!!
Roland
I brought that idea with me when I visited here some time back. My plan was to lurk, learn as much as I could, educate myself, and not get involved in the squabbles I expected to see. Man Did I have Benchrest Central wrong!!
I have found BC to be the exact opposite of what I expected. I have asked sevreal questions and in each and every case got answers that not only were useful but accrate as well. the folks have been friendly, extremely helpful and eager to help not just me but anyone with a question. Thanks Guys !!!
A couple or three weeks ago I was having a real bad day. I made a post about that day so I will not bore anyone with reposting it but it is here in this area and is titled " A Bad Day!! Or Is It ??
This post was more of a rant about myself, and was just to get some stuff off my chest. Little did I ever expect to outcome of that post. I got meassages from a lot of folks with invitations to shoot in different places. One of the moderators here has absolutly bent over backwards with trying to get me the equipment and transportation to the Match this coming weekend at Butner, Thanks Charles and I hope you guys knock em dead this weekend, sorry I couldn't make it but I will be there next match. And I want to extend a thank you to all for the private messages and e-mails and invitations. It is my most sincere hope to meet each of you at a shoot somewhere and have the privilage of shaking your hands.
But the reason for this Post is really about one guy. Every once in awhile and sometimes and for some of us only once in a lifetime do we meet a person who turns out to be a kindered spirit, someone you feel you should have known for many years but actually just met. I spent the best years of my life in the Marine Corps, and in that type of a lifestyle making friends at some point in time becomes the very last thing you ever want to do "Again". After you watch your very best friend laying in the sand on some far away place leaking his life blood into the dirt, and there not being one DAMN thing you can do about it, you just stop making friends. It simply hurts to bad to ever go through again. While I have been retired for years leaving that behind is very hard for some of us to do.
Well folks I am here to tell you I stopped making friends one friend to far!!!!!
One of the posters on here who responded to my Rant Post was Bob Pastor. Bob owns a company "Viper Rests" he makes Front Rests for Benchrest shooting and other accesories as well. Bob said in his post that he wanted to see that I had The Best Equipment I could find in starting my Benchrest Shooting Career and offered to build me one of his hand made rest's. Now I thought that was a great offer, I assumed that hand made rests were something like hand made Rifles, and had just about the same waiting time. That would be months and months, his offer seemed to me to kinda skirt that waiting list---Or So I Assumed---Bob had furnised me a link to his web-site I went and looked around, was very impressed but they were just beyond my budget. Bob and I talked and he informed me that he didn't want me to purchase a rest from him, he wanted to build a rest "For Me". Guys I tried and tried to refuse his offer as it was just "TOO" generous. Bob wasn't having any of that and so he went to work. He asked me What I wanted in a rest. Since Bob was doing this For ME i told him "Bob you build it the way you want to".
Folks this Rest came in on the Big Brown Truck today. I have just gotten to the point were I can type this message and not drool all over the keyboard, I have already drooled all over the rest all day, and as a matter of fact right now it is on the floor next to my bed as I am not letting this thing out of my sight for awhile. Here are a few pictures and a link to Bob's site.
www.viperbench-rest.com
Bob, mere words will never be able to express my thanks Buddy. You are a true brother!!!
Roland
