{"id":1388,"date":"2020-09-11T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2020-10-12T12:47:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:47:49","slug":"longtime-friend-and-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Friend and Customer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Robin with Bruce Bennett, basepad customer number ONE for Taylor Freelance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first basepad we made (at Bruce&#8217;s urging) was a +8 extension for Open Division Glocks &#8212; in his case, a .40. (Hence the original name was the &#8220;+8 Floorplate&#8221; &#8212; it gave +8 in .40, +10 in 9mm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Bruce and Robin were two of the best known &#8220;Glock guys&#8221; in Northwest Washington at the time (before shooting Glocks was common). Bruce shot as a sponsored shooter for Aerotek while working for the Washington Dept of Corrections, and Robin was writing for Fishing &amp; Hunting News! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/bruce-and-robin-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1396 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/bruce-and-robin-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/bruce-and-robin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/bruce-and-robin-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/bruce-and-robin-660x495.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/bruce-and-robin.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin with Bruce Bennett, basepad customer number ONE for Taylor Freelance. The first basepad we made (at Bruce&#8217;s urging) was a +8 extension for Open Division Glocks &#8212; in his case, a .40. (Hence the original name was the &#8220;+8 Floorplate&#8221; &#8212; it gave +8 in .40, +10 in 9mm) Bruce and Robin were two\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=1388\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,193],"tags":[47,194],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-guns","category-history","tag-glock","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}