I would be open to this idea myself. J makes some good points to be sure, but if we keep it to paid members, and ONLY the gauges themselves, I think we'd be ok.

As to "why" paid members only?

Not really as much to do with trust, as more to make sure those "members" are really on this board to be on this board. Not like was mentioned earlier, the word gets out on other forums that we're loaning gauges to all comers here on the Savage forum.

That, and I would consider this a type of "reward" for being a paid member and supporting the website.

Last thought is, what good would the gauges do you without access to the forum classifieds, where you can buy many barrels to use those gauges on?