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Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - 140DB - 08-16-2015 Greetings fellas. Relatively a newcomer to firearms in general. Been shooting/collecting for about 4 years now. For most of my life I was adamantly opposed to gun ownership. Much of this psychology influenced by having gone to fairly liberal high schools/colleges throughout my life. Had a client that had his own private gun range in his basement and a giant arsenal of firearms. For months on end, he egged me on to just "try it out." About 4 years ago, fired my first gun and found it to be exhilarating and quite intense. Hence the indoctrination began. =) Always had this view of gun owners being fear driven backwoods hicks - couldn't have been more wrong. I've met quite a few folks that both collect and are passionate about shooting and they've all been exremely intelligent, politically engaged, and just responsible citizens. Some of the nicest people I've met! Mostly into C&R rifles - just enjoy the research and history. Admittedly I don't shoot as often as I'd like but the 'collecting' experience is really gratifying. Met Mike at Red Dot Arms merely through chance via my wife. We ended up building out the Red Dot Store and this forum together, and there are plans underway to scale Red Dot's online presence via a Training focused site, News portal, and tertiary marketing collateral. Stay tuned! Good to be here and looking forward to evolving relationships! RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - mikereddot - 08-16-2015 Nice to see you here Sir!!! Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - AcilletaM - 08-16-2015 Welcome! RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - BelieveIn308 - 08-16-2015 Welcome! And I can see from some of your other posts you bring machinist knowledge to the forum as well! RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - 140DB - 08-16-2015 (08-16-2015, 01:17 PM)BelieveIn308 Wrote: Welcome! And I can see from some of your other posts you bring machinist knowledge to the forum as well! "Machinist knowledge" - that's a stretch. Just a newb hobbyist. =) RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - XdEric - 08-16-2015 Welcome Sir RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - BelieveIn308 - 08-17-2015 Well enough knowledge to order the machine tools, and probably set them up... RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - Codyp911 - 08-17-2015 Welcome. RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - British Gunner - 08-17-2015 Glad to have you aboard RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - Dutz - 08-17-2015 Welcome RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - Fireman - 08-17-2015 Welcome RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - Ringo3632 - 08-17-2015 Welcome to the forum! I'm excited about the new training site that's being mentioned.. I'm already exceeding my budget for it but it'll be cool to see all of the classes being offered now! RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - Karl B - 08-19-2015 Welcome to the forum, and the company! Mike and Red Dot as a whole are great people from my experience. Very passionate about what they do. RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - ssphoto - 08-20-2015 Welcome. Hope to see you in training classes at some point. RE: Greetings from Lake Villa, IL - RJDSRT - 08-20-2015 Welcome! Glad to see you joined the good team! |