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Hi all, I have been interested in material from JoeBloggs for a little while since I met him a short while ago, he is arranging some stalking for me and has shown me round a few times to make sure I know the land and the best trails etc. I also had some problems with scopes and guns (thanks to being screwed over by a gunsmith) so have used him more than I probably should for advice since meeting him. I am also in need of mags as well as scope bases.
I am truly astounded at the attitude of DL. I actually had to rub my eyes and read it twice through to make sure I was actually reading it right! You DL are the exact reason nobody in this country does anything for anyone any more, whether its holding a door open or saying please or thank you in a shop. You are the essence of what it is to be in Britain today in my humble opinion, an arrogant selfish ungrateful attempt at being a know it all who DOES nothing but talks as if you are the giver of all givers and the font of all things good and holy.
JoeBloggs, for your information, is an extremely skilled person and an incredibly kind and generous one. He has done various modifications and offered HOURS of advice to me for sweet fanny adams. Even when I tried to pay him a bit of beer money for what amounted to probably well in excess of £100 of free gear he gave me as it was "just lying around the workshop and was never used" JB said "don't be daft, we stalkers look after each other, one day you can do me a good turn when I need one".
So just let me recap. JB likes to dabble with machines, electronics, optics, bullets and reloading etc etc. He also very much likes to help people out if he can, I know this first hand and he gained nothing from me but a nice cup of coffee every half hour while he was busy filing and hammering away in my workshop. He hates how the shops fleece people for magazines and scope rings (and everything else) and decided he can make stuff himself just as good or more likely better, with more attention and care about the manufacturing process, and wanted to do so for as little cost as possible. He unfortunately didn't have all the equipment necessary and made that CLEAR from the outset, but assuming he could rely on promises made TO HIM by others, he told people he was hoping to come up with something. No contracts were signed, no money was given to him!
It didn't come off, and as he moaned to me about last time I saw him, the bloke concerned has left him well over £400 out of pocket on the idea and now just "doesn't want to know" any more so has retracted his previous offer because he is too busy on other things. How the HELL can that be JB's fault? Jesus, did he HAVE to offer at all in the first place? NO. Did he have to offer free bases? NO. Anyone on here would offer that info when asked, it wouldnt have taken long to get the info from someone here and the offer of a freebie was just a sweetener, because he is the generous type. He didn't have to do it. To make out he was leading people along is low and shows you up for the pathetic creature you clearly must be. In fact it looks very much like, contrary to what you say, you were probably the one who was MOST interested in a magazine from him and so you are simply really peed off that you aren't getting one now, and since you probably never heard the word NO when you were growing up, you threw your teddy out the pram and decided to attack him and try to make everyone follow you in your witch hunt. Absolutely pathetic. Grow up. If you truly have no need for any of his stuff, you took an awfully big interest in him and his "promises" didn't you?! I can't think of a reason I would spend time tracking promises made on a forum by some stranger who was talking about making something I had NO NEED for.
Far from being a 'let down' as DL has tried to paint him here, in my experience JB has impressed me enough that I have recently commissioned him for a custom build of a machine which my business needs and which doesn't exist anywhere in the UK. I have struggled for 2 years to find someone with the skills and trustworthy enough to ask. When asking him to quote for it, his answer was "Just leave it with me, let me see if i can pull one together in the flesh from your plans using old spare parts I can source locally, and if we get a prototype running how you want then we can go from there"! He intends to spend his evenings and weekends on this around his day job, despite the fact he could be earning for that work. Thats the sign of a decent genuine and RARE person these days if you ask me, the very last sort of person I would call a let down.
I have not known him very long, but I believe in decent people looking out for other decent people. Having been amazed at the attitude of just one person on here, I felt it worth spending 15 minutes to put MY point of view across here.
JB - Please don't take any notice whatsoever, plenty of other people are interested in the mags and the scope bases so plug on mate and if and when you come up with something let me know because I for one will still be interested. Some people can't be helped, but others can so don't let others suffer due to the ignorance of one individual, though I would understand if you threw in the towel as some people often make it seem pointless being decent any more.
P.S. - If you come across a cheap air compressor, drop me a message please!!
