In April of 2018, I joined this web site for one reason - to say some bad things about a rifle builder and company. At the time, I let a disagreement allow my emotions to take control. The facts are simple and embarrassing, for me. I did order a rifle from Tactical Rifles in Florida. I did not mention the name of the company or the owner in my first posting. I did use enough of my email address as my screen name so that TR would figure it out. The rifle that I received was indeed exactly what I ordered, I simply did not know enough about precision rifles to know what I was asking for or understand what may or may not have been wrong with the rifle. So I sent the rifle back and TR worked on it and sent it to me. Because it was a match chamber and I didn't really understand head spacing versus chambering I didn't realize it was a good rifle. So what I did was make an initial very disparaging post about Tactical Rifles without mentioning their name initially. Someone responded that knew who I was talking about and asked if it was Tactical Rifles and it's owner, Mr. David Rooney. I admitted it was and then fell into further postings with others that may or may not have a disagreement with TR. I don't know as that is not my fight nor my business. It was a gutless and dishonorable thing that I did by using this forum to vent and make bad statements about people and companies. Against everything I was taught and believed in from my previous military occupation. Dishonorable and just plain stupid. This rifle in question is a fine rifle once I made an attempt to understand what David Rooney told me instead of taking it as insult as I did previously. Why am I typing this statemen? Before you ask, no Tactical Rifles did not ask me to do this. My health is deteriorating rapidly, I can no longer shoot. But what I can do after feeling like the piece of crap I was since April of 2018 when I opened this Pandora's Box is try do the right thing after doing the dishonorable and gutless thing previously. Disregard everything I previously said in the thread, Bad Rifles. I was pissed off beyond recognition and I wanted to be a word that I can't use on this forum. And that's just what I did, insult a company, a man - David Rooney, the rifle builder that built BOTH my Tactical Rifles and the company in general. I cannot speak to others personal experiences or disagreements with Tactical Rifles nor will I. In fact, I will never post anything again because I hate what I did. I would say this, judge Tactical Rifles yourself not by something I said. I am simply trying to right a wrong with this statement.
