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[RollingThunder51]

Realizing that the range of response to Major John Plaster (ret) runs the full spectrum, I thought you might like to see this shot.
He stopped by at the NRA event last week. Never a bad word for others, he spent a good deal of time visiting with all the vendors.

 

[Rotortuner]

Re: Booth Visitor

Here is some info about John Plaster from wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Plaster

 

[Ghost1941]

Re: Booth Visitor

Why does the guy have such a bad rap then? Some people love the stuff he brings to the community and others walk away with their nose in the air.

 

[RollingThunder51]

Re: Booth Visitor

This "community" may be to a larger extent more unique than most to be found on the web. Where else can a single person's action be so decisive in its outcome, so absolute in taking personal responsibility for that action than a sniper and his trigger? It is a final, deliberate commitment to act, and upon acting take on the responsibility to have acted that few undetakings can compare with.

The result may very well be one inwhich a few of these same people come to feel that they alone can be the best arbitrator of the benefit or disadvantage of a given thing, process or person. Given the consequences, the responsibility, it is wholly understandable. With the passage of time and perspective some may choose to contribute more generously to the field than others. When they do, perhaps like Major Plaster, they do so imperfectly but as completely and as honestly as they can. They may already know that, in the end, no contribution in the field of sniping will be as unique and wholly groundbreaking as those of say Major Hesketh-Prichard or Major F.M. Crum or any number of earlier manuals of some of the then thirty (30) German sniping schools. It was 1914 and the task at hand was head shots at 600 yards. Sound familiar? Some may feel that dismissing a work in its entirety when, in its first printing, it talks about bullets rising above barrel axis upon leaving the muzzle is an epiphany! Others may read that persons remarks and think "Though the dogs may bark, the caravan moves forward."

You asked a good question, but you may already know the answer.

Enjoy this..the Plaster "air horn" incident:

http://books.google.com/books?id=JY...X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA232,M1