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    Quote Originally Posted by Firefly View Post
    I honestly didn’t really participate in gun forums until 2010. In the early 00s, I might have looked up stuff on Yahoo. But really I wasn’t that much into guns like that. Just what I was taught in academy or classes and such.

    Honestly if anything I would read Shotgun News, Small Arms Review, or Soldier of Fortune(stopped reading SoF circa 2000 though because I wasn’t an edgy teen anymore).

    I might have read a few Guns magazines for toilet fodder.
    Same exact experience. Would look stuff up when I needed to but otherwise didn't know places like this existed. Think I found forums around 2009. Unit then I didn't even know most of the brands even. I knew Beretta but not 92. Vaguely knew Glock but not all the different models. I shot a short one in 9mm!! My first gun and first carry gun was a Ruger P95 in 2001.
    ARs were ARs, shotguns were excellent home defense because they had knock down power and that noise they make when racking and AKs were the shit!!

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    Last week I found an old email from around 2006 from someone named "Boom" telling me to come sign up at this new website called m4carbine.net. I did but I think my account info was permanently lost during a site upgrade sometime around 2009-2010.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grand58742 View Post
    Was Gecko45 exclusively on Glocktalk? That dude was a hoot.

    And who could forget Gunkid on the survival boards? Tactical Wheelbarrow will eternally live in infamy.
    Gecko45 was actually Juggernaut on arfcom. SpecOps was HKocher I think, trying to remember. Met Geck at Shot Show in Orlando when he was hanging out with the Cav Arms crew.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
    Gecko45 was actually Juggernaut on arfcom. SpecOps was HKocher I think, trying to remember. Met Geck at Shot Show in Orlando when he was hanging out with the Cav Arms crew.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grand58742 View Post
    And who could forget Gunkid on the survival boards? Tactical Wheelbarrow will eternally live in infamy.
    AKA multi-time convicted felon John Melvin Davis... oh, that's a blast from the past. I watched multiple boards throw him out multiple times and he kept coming back like the Clap from Hell...
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    The Minion Report was the first board I joined - I WISH I could remember my log-in there - it seems to still be going!

    FerFal was a regular there, and reading his first-hand accounts of Argentina's collapse was worth the price of admission. I joined in '06, I think, but that site has been around since at least '02, IIRC.

    M4C was about the 4th board I joined; it's now the oldest one I'm still an active member of.
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    I think I still have my High Road login. I didn't pay attention to forums until around 2009.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightvisionary View Post
    Vollmer's paintball and machine gun board was the first one I remember around 1996. Subguns popped up about the same time Volmer shut down. When AR15 and FALfiles started they did not have forums, they just had specs and a few articles. I grew to hate Buddy Hinton on Sturmgewehr, his $5 "Free lunch" program, constant browbeating, and the complicated ballet unicycle riding blindfolded while juggling steps you had to do in just the right order, with just the right format, while also meeting the unwritten format rules of which any violation would result in the instant deletion without warning of carefully crafted sale ads. Posting an ad there was like trying to crack a 4 digit cipher lock while knowing half the numbers because if your ad got deleted you never knew why so you had to guess and try again until you got it right. It was not even his board yet he was raking in thousands of dollars from his "Free Lunch" program. I think the program finally came to a sudden halt after somebody turned Buddy in to the IRS for un-reported income tax violations. Buddy single handedly killed that board.
    Yeah, Sturm was a PITA. It never had the level of discussion that Vollmers and Subguns had, but it was a good place to buy. FYI, the old school subguns is resurrected as snugbus.com. Not nearly as active as the original subguns, before Frank Goepfert bought and tanked it, but still enjoyable.


    Also, the new Sturm is not at all affiliated with Buddy. It’s still quite good for buying and selling.
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