I also think it is fine to post here (ignore the BBS NAZIs).
I agree. You will notice that the "BBS NAZIs" seldom if ever contribute anything constructive, but are pretty much the "usual suspects" with their occasional one-line-zingers critical of other people's posts. The idea that someone in London is trying to get something going at a reasonable price (or an unreasonable price) is the sort of cross-pond information and networking that ought to be encouraged. Many here will recall, and no doubt read with interest, the fine article by "financially challenged" Market-Hunter-Destry in a recent issue of the
DGJ.Destry told of how he hooked up with some British sportsmen on an Internet site, and how he used the Internet to arrange his own shooting expedition to Scotland. He bought airline tickets on-line and researched how to take along his Parker shotguns; he found a source and ordered custom-built golden plover decoys on eBay. He used e-mail to nail-down his expected contribution to a "shooting" and how to pay his share of a the necessary guides, local transportation and lodging; he also pre-arranged for a permit to import some of his shot game for a photo shoot at my place to illustrate his article.
The Internet can be a great facilitator or a "poison pill." Why anybody would question or object to this sort of thing is a sorry testimonial to the BBS NAZI mentality that I saw and experienced on the LCS and Parker websites...and thus moved my "wastin'-away-in-cyberspace" surfin' & postin' interest here.
I for one would like to explore the possibilities of a "good-ol'-boy" low-cost trip to the mother country, devoid of the excessive Lord of the Manor extravagances that seem endemic to the magazine articles and ads. Therefore I would like to know more; why is it that those who dread, and would like to know less about "commercial activity," can't just move on to a more socialisticaly-pure thread that is of interest to them?
Believe it or not, my new book,
Parker Guns: Shooting Flying, makes no mention of the Second Amendment, but explains the First Amendment's freedom of being heard and published in the context of the pre-revolution censorship of the press that resulted in there being no guns-and-hunting books published in America until 1783, when the British troops and Loyalists were disembarking. Keep in mind that we need the First Amendment's freedom of speech to even talk about what the Second Amendment means. Thus the BBS NAZIs serve as a constant reminder of how quickly our fellow Americans can turn on us when things don't fit their personal agenda. Investigation continues. EDM
