What are some of the oldest "gun talk" forums?

**Ron3** · 10-22-20, 18:43

I recall spending much time on "firearmstalk" or "shooterstalk" "shootersforum" or some such title in the 1990's.

**everready73** · 10-22-20, 19:58

When I first got into guns I was on The HighRoad forum. I think it had been doing for a while

Just looked and it started in 2002.

Light fighter is also pretty old I think

**Diamondback** · 10-22-20, 20:14

Gunhub has gone through multiple names over the years, but its nucleus was the old Prodigy Shooting Sports BBS and then several other threads including BattleRifles wove into the tapestry.

Quiet place but a VERY high Signal-to-Noise Ratio when its members speak, and a treasure trove in the archives, particularly on the M1 Carbine and M14. Pat Sweeney is an alum over there, quite a few retired or approaching-retirement LEOs and military over there too.

**BoringGuy45** · 10-22-20, 20:26

Not specifically gun talk forums, but I started on the Military.com weapons sub forum back when I was a teen in the early 2000s

. I didn't know dick, and neither did any of them.

**Diamondback** · 10-22-20, 20:51

Originally Posted by BoringGuy45

Not specifically gun talk forums, but I started on the Military.com weapons sub forum back when I was a teen in the early 2000s

. I didn't know dick, and neither did any of them.

Whelp!

I was a 20something college student at that time... which is when I was active at THR and first joined 1911Forum, what's now Gunhub, the Iannamicos' MG board and the long-defunct AWBanSunset.com.

**FromMyColdDeadHand** · 10-22-20, 21:18

What is 'old' pre2000? Pre-1995? Before there were pictures and a 1200 baud modem was the envy of 300 baud buddies?

The High Road and 1911forum and of course ARF were some of the oldest I remember. Brian Enos seems like it may have started out of a list serv.

I wasn't early, but I was surprised at how many places I could get FromMyColdDeadHand as a name.

Is Sigforum still alive? Google finds it, but it won't open.

**MistWolf** · 10-22-20, 22:18

FalFiles traces its history back to the 90s BBS days

**pinzgauer** · 10-22-20, 22:21

Long before forums was usenet... talk.politics.guns, rec.guns, etc. Mid 80s

**jbjh** · 10-22-20, 22:25

24hourcampfire is from 2000.

I know Calguns started just after THR.

But yeah, THR has been around long enough to have had to fight it out being taken over using registry shenanigans.

For some reason I think that Brian Enos forums go back a ways.

Sent from 80ms in the future

**JoshNC** · 10-22-20, 22:51

In 1995 I was a junior in high school and was on the Vollmer’s forum and Subguns forum. Machinegun News had a forum that was gone by about 1996. Biggerhammer and Sturmgewehr popped up shortly thereafter, maybe around 96/97. Then HK Pro. Then ARFCOM.

I was first interested in reading about, discussing, and following prices of transferable machineguns in high school and college. Really, it’s still what interests me the most.