Gentlemen. If you haven't noticed, the extraneous contentious quotient (and those guys do have a lot to add) is much diminished over the last few months; the professional gunsmith comments and the gun historian observations are being posted without the past sniping.

This is a great site. It's unique because the topics are not split up...you can read what you want to read.... How about the annual contribution to help Dave keep it going.

It has become a far more pleasant forum of late !

I think donating is a good idea, there is no free lunch.
I did the PayPal thing this am.

I just did Pay Pal.

I did not contribute last year because I was so fed up with stepping in turds each time I opened a thread. As Argo noted, however, this forum has indeed become a pleasure again recently and I just contributed.

Done.

Done

Done

After a. long absence I sent Dave some money. Now, after reading the last few posts, that are nothing but personal vendettas-I am rethinking the wisdom of my donation.
Why can't you guys just talk about guns??

Done

As for the "background noise" I found it helped a lot to put 2 or 3 individuals on ignore.