I can't see any advantage (to anyone) for me to remain here. I can't offer any insights. nor any help . Everyone here seems to know everything far better than I.
Good luck to everyone and I hope you can buy and shoot everything you either want or need.
I wish you well.
Goodbye.
Thread closed ...
I have to say that we don't often see many of these type of posts, but we do understand that our site and it's rules of behavior governing the acceptable interaction between members isn't for everyone.
Our site has been provided absolutely free to collectors for the last 10 years by my wife and I, along with a small group of Contributing Members, who cover all of the costs for its operations. The member community consists of serious collectors, researchers and many authors of books on service rifles, plus other content.
We're supposed to be sharing our forums to interact with a lot of like minded folks, who share a common love of old milsurps and the terrific collecting hobby surrounding them. Most of our 26,000+ registered members want to come here talk about Enfields, Mausers, M1 Carbines, 1903 Springfields, or whatever genre of collectible firearm they love to converse about.
We really don't want to see a lot of good "electronic" friends who may differ in political, religious, or lifestyle views, ruin an otherwise enjoyable experience talking about old guns, by permitting a posting environment which encourages or promotes arguments and divisiveness. Often it's not about what someone says, but how they say it. ;)
There are many gun sites on the Internet who permit posters in any threads to engage in arguing with less than polite discourse between members. If anyone really needs a "fix" of watching perfectly sane and normal people deteriorate into name calling and verbal insults, join one of those sites and have at it. ;)
To the rest of our membership, I do apologize that we tend let "sandbox" behavior sometimes drag on too long before we step in, but it is a fine line trying to maintain social order and the individual member's right to express their opinions on our hobby, particularly when it involves anonymous identities with communication styles coming from so many varied intellectual and cultural backgrounds.
Thanks for everyone's patience ... :cheers:
Regards,
Doug