Pooch: Canvasback is correct, your posts aren't the problem. As far as general crankyness, the whole country (and I can't speak for Canada)seems to be a a bad mood these days. I see alot of it in my little part-time job. Some of it is a simple case of the shack-nasties, as winter had dragged on so long. The rest? Well, perhaps I'm projecting, but the other component seems to be fallout from "Hope & Change". Lots of folks (at least in the demographic that tends to populate this site) are unhappy and very uncomfortable with our current political climate.
I agree a lot has to do with the current condition this country is in from "Hope and Change". I have been here as long as most and the "old days" had lots of new collectors joining as their financial situation improved a lot of middle class guys wanted to hunt with a nicer gun and were drawn to the doubles for both quality and seeing the market improve making their previous "investments" look good.
Today,the era of an improving middle class is gone,most are struggling to keep their jobs and health care and seeing price for fuel,food go up while their pay stagnant.Instead of seeing kid off to college they find them still home on their couch with school debt and no jobs to pay for it.I was down in the "big city" Concord yesterday and could not get over the amount of homeless people,no jobs begging for food,never ever I have seen this country is such bad shape financially.People in my small town are going broke trying to keep their house warm,buying a $2000.00 shotgun is the furthest thing from most peoples mind,what they need fuel oil and cord wood !
With fewer "new" middle buyers joining the board to find out more about doubles and collecting we are left with the same old cranky crew (me included) who are set in their ways in guns and just about everything else.Most of us are fortunate to have the capitol to buy and have bought what we like but we are as a group declining.The next double gun buyers are not as lucky so its just "us" for the most part until things change for the better a bunch of grumpy old men.
