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!!
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
