Worried

[garrettbragg12]

I appreciate your response! And I see where you guys are coming from with the repetitive posts. I imagine answering "what parts do I need" every day, year after year gets old, but hey, gotta make sure you "old timers" don't start slacking off and forgetting things! all joking aside though, I just worry that as a very young, new collector, there's so much I haven't learned from people such as yourself. I do keep a few guys that I can email/call anytime such as Paul Imbraguilio (one of the nicest guys I've met) and nick dailey, if I'm ever completely at a loss for info. It just surprised me how much activity was dying down I guess!


M1/M3 Carbine: late '44 Inland
M1 Garand: late '44 Springfield

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[Badger]

It just surprised me how much activity was dying down I guess!

It's not really dying down here specifically, but it is across the Internet in general ....

With the ever increasing age demographic of people collecting these old milsurps, combined with ever increasing prices due to lower availability and rarity, there's less new blood coming into the hobby, particularly the younger set, who can't afford it.

The result is that gun oriented web sites catering to old milsurp collectibles are seeing less activity compared to historical levels and in fact, most are seeing a gradual decline in active members and postings.

As far as our site goes, we have 21,000+ registered members over the last 6 years and we average 10-15 new registrations per day. According to our Google Analytics program which monitors our site, our traffic is up month over month for the past year, by an average of 10-15% per month compounded. If you type the word milsurps or milsurp into the Google search engine, our site has consistently been the #1 site to appear in their search output results, for the past 12 months, or more.

Finally, not every visitor (guest) registers. There's a lot of "lurkers" who just read posts and learn a lot, but never register and participate in forum posting.

Here's an example of today's current statistics.

Total new members that have registered on the forum in the last 24 hours: 14
Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 9,068 (doesn't count search bots)

So, perspective is everything …

Regards,
Doug

[Bill Hollinger]

... such as Paul Imbraguilio (one of the nicest guys I've met) and nick dailey...

A huge ditto to both of those fine members.