1. Accounts! NO MULTIPLE IDENTITIES ALLOWED!
When you join this Benchrest Directory you will receive an account registered to your name and email address. You must register with information about who you are and which will be used to validate your membership. You are limited to one personal account. The creation of multiple accounts with different user names is strictly forbidden and any such accounts will be terminated with no recourse to appeal, potentially along with the originator's membership.

2. This forum will be read by a huge number of people in many different countries. Not all of these people are sympathetic to our sport, our ownership of rifles and target shooting. What the members of this Benchrest Directory post is out there for all to see, including those who would see our pastime curtailed and our rifles taken from us. Therefore you should be careful to ensure that what you post does not bring discredit to the Benchrest Directory and shooting sports in general. For that reason, posting accounts of hunting or lack firearms safety in graphic detail (including photographic evidence) is not acceptable in this politically correct age. The list of inappropriate materials is not exhaustive and will be removed by moderators.

3. The Administrators and Moderators are in Charge. This Benchrest Directory is wholly owned by shooters involved in this sport. They pay for everything and this is provided free to you as the user of this service. Also you should be aware that whatever gets posted on here is, ultimately, their responsibility in law. Because of this members join here, and remain as, guests. When you join you agree to abide by the Benchrest Directory rules and to do whatever is required of you to ensure the reputation and integrity of this Benchrest Directory and its owners remain intact. The rules are here as you join so please do not try to change them, decry them or circumvent them as this will not be appreciated.

4. Try to choose an appropriate forum name!!!! If you have accidentally forgotten to fill in most of the details in your profile, like where you come from or what you do for a living, consider going back now and plugging a few gaps so that, when somebody clicks to see whom you are, they don't find a load of blanks. Others are doing this and we point you back to rule one.

5. The board is ‘policed’ by voluntary Moderators and Administrators who are experienced shooters and experts in their respective fields. They are also normal, busy people with lives, jobs and families who give freely of their precious time to enable this place to exist. There job is made harder by people who post inappropriate things. These require the moderators to regularly trawl through the bowls of the Benchrest Directory to edit out these posts and delete offending material and gets very tedious very quickly. If you post inappropriately, you may well find your ability to log into the Benchrest Directory next time mysteriously difficult. Our moderators are human and appreciate a little respect and remember their word is final. Always!

6. Disagreements. These will inevitably occur (this is a discussion forum after all, which relies on differences of opinion to exist), and when they do we ask you to maintain your dignity keeping personal insults to a minimum. You are entitled to express any opinions you choose, but you will be required to defend them in rational debate should we disagree. 'It's just my opinion' is not a valid excuse for being wrong. If you think something you are about to post might risk inadvertently offending another member and you want to tone it down a little, try using one of the smilies to introduce a grin or a wink into your post.

7. No advertising - ever! If you've just come here to sell stuff without contributing anything to the forum, you may well be gagged and offending posts removed.

8. Tasteful Signatures and Avatars. Don’t use images or text that may be offensive or that will annoy the moderators and do try to refrain from writing reams under your name in huge letters. We have to read this stuff under every post you make – scrolling through 3 screens of gibberish to get to the next bit gets tedious. One point; We do charge for using avatars - currently this is £5 a year on renewal. If you require an avatar please contact sticky at;

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9. If you're new, take the time to read a few threads first. Get a feel for the place; hang out a little; get an idea of what goes and what doesn't. There are countless conventions and unwritten rules on this, and every, forum, which you will only understand by observing others.

10. Most of all, enjoy your time on this forum, while allowing others to do so at the same time.

Our thanks. The Admin Team