As a new member, to not only these forums but the air rifle community at large, with a proven track record of forum use in the world of centerfire competitive sports I have to say it is frustrating at best to find out that PM's are apparently a feature of the somewhat privileged... I am of an age that saw the dawn of computers, and as such not one to post or comment unless there is a salient point to the thread and it's original topic. That alone makes it challenging to build up post counts (apparently the chosen metric for determining the privilege of PM's???) and less than ideal for proliferation of, not only this forum, but the sport at large. I am the sort of individual that believes there is more to be learned by doing research, and using the search function, more so than posting questions, that have been asked multiple times and already answered thus junking up the forum with redundant clutter...
Occasionally I would love to be able to reach out to a post author for clarification or to ask a question about something related but potientially off topic and am unable to....
Hopefully this is a more or less temporary condition for me and I will be able to continue to enjoy the forum as I have found there is quite a lot of good information here.
Andy
Thank you in advance for your consideration/rant off