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I joined the original board right at about post #500. Now I am member #43. Bill & Klunkermeister were here by then. Don't know the date, likely 1995. Lots of great guys and great information. I remember the Greek dude. I took him after chukar at the 3 forks of the Owyhee. We got to the drop off and hunted the rimrock from the top so no chasing chukars up hill. I went West, he went East and it sounded like Armageddon to the East. I shot 5 times and got 2 Chucks and a quail. He went through maybe 3 boxes and I thought we would be cleaning forever, but he came back with NO birds. Geez. I've never known anyone could be such a bad shot. He bought a blank from me then returned it. I sent him 3 blanks from which to choose and he kept them all (paid for only the original) and then I found out he screwed the stockmaker out of three more blanks and never paid for them. Luckily the only low life I have met in hunting or business.
Wonko the Sane was there fairly early on but went by another moniker I forget. Picked on him a lot but he is really OK. Frisko area guy makes the Reno show now and then.
Remeber Ol Tex who was a Mod 37 Ithaca lover? He decided to brew/distill his own whiskey and checked to see what an uncut barrel looked like through the bung with a match. Real bad idea, but he posted afterwards (stating it was a real bad idea). Didn't hear any more from him but he was a funny guy.
Really miss Russ & Oscar.

Rather than Ol Tex I think you're talking about Ol'Lightning. As I recall he told us of his wife threatening divorce if he kept on spending all his time here rather than with her. He took a sabbatical for a time, reappeared briefly and then finally disappeared for good. I've often wondered how he's doing today???

I started up the summer of 97 when I started my present job. The old format used to just roll with posting activity...lots of fun!

Stan I often wonder about what happened to Lenard Lemke. He seemed like a pretty astute shotgunner and marched to his own beat.

I keep coming back because there's a level of information here not found in the other shotgun forums I visit.

If you wanted squabbles back in those days, the old alloutdoors board was the place to go. Voutsi (the Greek guy) was there as well as here. I think he may still hold the record for having been booted off the most BB's.

Larry, I remember the thread that brought that forum down. "Shot size for grouse"

Ol' Voutsi ....... now that's a blast from the past.

SRH

This is why this is my number one stop and why I will likely make it to 2 decades one day. But I have a ways to go yet. CJO told me about this place. Glad he did.

pete - WTS went by 12ga.net and charles7 back then. he was a contrarian, but in a funny way. it was always halarious reading his posts

one of his funniest was in the late '90's. ou wrote a post about how wood held all sorts of modern material properties and ws actually hi-tech. charles7 simply wrote - "yeah, that is why they use so much of it on the space shuttle."

guess you had to be there, but it had me rolling.

BTW pete, on our little unspoken issue, my tally continues to rise.

I used to get a kick out of old Lowell Glenthorn, he used to bug some folks, but I thought he did it with a bit of style & humour..I miss him
franc