"I dont think its fair or appropriate to describe people who appreciate obsession or SDM scopes as ignorant
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Originally Posted by Starkler
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.....
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.....
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Hi again Geoff - as I hope I articulated, semantics et al are fascinating subjects: and perhaps before I go any further I should confess that I can be a bit of a stirrer (termed "devil's advocate" in more formal surrounds!)
Having made this admission I'll cheekily state I've (obviously) included selected quotes from your postings to stir/suggest that there can be all sorts of (possible) interpretative constructs in "a bunch or words."
Notwithstanding aforesaid, there was definitely no intention to be personally offensive either in fact or perception; I should have chosen my words of praise more carefully - maybe something along the lines of your comment re commercial productions. (though could that perhaps have lead to a "posting assault" on me from every owner of any expensive commercial gear?!?)
My apologies again Geoff for any slight, regards, Darryl.