Searching the internet to try to educate yourself is a good thing.

Trying to correct people who have been collecting and gathering information for decades each is a silly thing.

But it's understandable. He doesn't know us. The information he was believing isn't any worse that information you might get from any gun store or dealers at gun shows. Had a Cabela's library guy try to tell me than an EG with a Redfield 70 was an RS, even though he had a copy of Murray's on the shelf 3 feet away.

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