[Starkler (Geoff)]

Thank you Darryl for your rather verbose reply and explanation.

Rather than finding the comment personally offensive, I assumed that perhaps your comment was spawned by a desire to bring the owners of high grade commercial scopes 'down a peg'. Whether such comment can attributed to previous experience with a person bragging of owning such a scope, or envy I do not know. A person getting "worked up" over an obsession or sdm isn't necessarily exclusive of knowledge that something better may exist out there in ATM land.

As an SDM owner, I take absolutely no credit for the quality and workmanship of the scope that I purchased. Apart from my input as to the basic specifications of the scope, all I did was hand over a wad of cash. I give full credit and kudos to skilled ATM people like DaveGee who have turned their skills to producing outstanding work the likes of which simply cannot be purchased commercially.

I really do envy those with the skills, time and tools to be able to do great ATM work. I think we all know that just about all commercially made scopes and mounts leave something to be desired, and the ability to custom make exactly what you want is a wonderful thing.