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Oscar told me about it shortly after it was started
bill

Ole Cowboy was an prickly old cuss, but was a good friend that I met through this board when I had a question about a 101 I had just purchased. He has been gone a little over 4 years. I have met many other good friends here.

Perhaps they wanted to use it to back date wills.

I too date back to the old board. How far back I no longer know but it must be twenty years as well. Lurked in the early days. Early days were a lot of banter and fun. There were several very heated threads over the virtues of the 16 and how mind numb those who disagreed about those "facts." I miss Old Lighting, John Mann, Bill Wise and Klunkmeister. A couple others, who are long gone, were such great sources of information and kind help. But even the nasty posters were more grouchy than mean and they often knew what they were talking about.

We had wonderful guy named John Mann who was the peacemaker of this forum. I remember Lowell Glenthorne of Glenthorne woods and his beloved Beesley. I heard he sold his Beesley. I wonder if he kept the A.H.Fox and Remington 1894. Those were them good ole' days.

I used to get lots of laughs at Glenthorne fretting himself into a frenzy over poachers. Someone could drive by slow and he would begin to worry. Someone started a thread of limericks, and I wrote one especially for Lowell ....... wish I could remember it.

There was also a real friendly guy out in Washington or Oregon named Lemke. I seem to remember him never mentioning shooting anything but starlings.

SRH

Stan, was that the guy someone--perhaps in honor of Glenthorne--dubbed "Lord Starlingworth"?

When things were slow, you could always post something negative about a Winchester and Ole Cowboy would appear like a genie in response to rubbing the lamp.

Early on, I recall that there was a pretty strong "Damascus Roulette" clique. Not safe to shoot those old guns.

I don't recall that monicker, Larry. I remember now his full screen name was Lenard Lemke, without an "o" in Lenard. The Atlanta Braves were on a roll along then and they had a great second baseman named Lemke, "The Lemmer". I guess that name just kinda stuck in my mind.

SRH

Larry in the Happy Hunting Ground, Ole Cowboy is going to give you Hell about trolling him on Winchesters !

I'm getting awful close to twenty if I'm not already there. Had a lot of good interchanges here over the years...
JR

If my memory serves me correctly - and that becomes more of a rarity as each day passes - I first logged into the old, original board sometime in 1993 or early 1994 shortly after my arrival to Albuquerque in June of 93. I have been on many others and still do participate in a couple, but for gun knowledge, this one is and always has been the very best. Some of the others have degenerated into name calling and such BS that I don't visit as much as I once did. This is still the most civil of all the boards I am aware of and Dave runs a top notch operation here as far as I am concerned. I will say that I had never given much though to donating to a board until I had to pay one of the others to stay on. After doing it I felt so bad because I had just paid to stay with something that often just sucks and had never paid Dave a dime for the benefit and honest pleasure I have derived from this board. As soon as I saw the Call for Donations this year I sent mine immediately!! Feels good. Thanks Dave.