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Offline slim rem 7

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don t yall love this forum..
« on: April 05, 2010, 02:39:14 AM »
more freedom allowed here in this forum,than in this whole country..a country once established for freedoms sake..but you do have to respect the greybearded ones authority..a ship without a captain will always come to no good.slim
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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2010, 02:45:18 AM »
i like it here
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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2010, 03:59:15 AM »
It has turned out to be exactly what it was intended--thanks to Bill.  Most folks on here probably don't know how this forum came to be, or that it originated in another place at another time.  Anyone else here remember Marlin Talk?
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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2010, 04:54:19 AM »
Quote from: magooch on April 05, 2010, 03:59:15 AM
It has turned out to be exactly what it was intended--thanks to Bill.  Most folks on here probably don't know how this forum came to be, or that it originated in another place at another time.  Anyone else here remember Marlin Talk?


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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2010, 05:15:16 AM »
  Sure would like to hear the story on that. That's a new one to me too. I know GB has been here at least 8 years. That is when i joined. ???
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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2010, 06:55:40 AM »
Quote from: slim rem 7 on April 05, 2010, 02:39:14 AM
more freedom allowed here in this forum,than in this whole country..a country once established for freedoms sake..but you do have to respect the greybearded ones authority..a ship without a captain will always come to no good.slim

YEP, a great site. Yes I remember Marlin Talk. POWDERMAN.  ;D ;D
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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2010, 07:10:49 AM »
GBO was started in '97 so yeah we've been here a long time.

The Reference to Marlin is that the Marlin Firearms company once had forums on their site for both Marlin rifles and for NEF/H&R guns. One day with no real notice they just shut them down. Folks who hung out there were left without a home.

Folks from both groups asked me and several other site others to provide them a new home. Several of us site owners set up mirror forums for one or both (Marlin and NEF/H&R as requested.

The Marlin folks proved fickle and were scattered to the four winds. No one site really got any siginficant percentage of the total which was at that time about 14,000 registered members.

The NEF/H&R guys came here in masse and stayed. Most did or by now have found their way here. One of the forums they had there was a general BS forum for topics that didn't fit elsewhere. That was the genesis of the Pot Bellied Stove Forum. It as begun with the new members in mind to replace that general BS forum over there at Marlin's site.

I really don't know where the Marlin guys are these days. Marlin Owner's now in the second generation of ownership since it started no doubt has some but not even half. That site drifted badly under the original owners and the poor servers they had. It was down more than up. It has now been bought out and Dave and Larry have made arrangements with us to host them on our servers and since that has happened the dependability and up time of their site has greatly improved.
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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2010, 08:50:48 AM »
I was on Marlin Talk when they shut down.
GBO is a much better site it has a down home feel.
Thanks again GB.

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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2010, 09:00:20 AM »

Yep...  I do love it here.  Seldom have much to say but visit several times a day.  The sub forums manage to cover about all my interests so the other forms I used to visit have pretty much all fallen by the wayside.
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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2010, 09:29:08 AM »
I was on the NEF site.  Went to one of the other sites, but people there was spotty.  Then someone sent me a PM and said most of the NEF guys were at Graybeards, so I came over and been here ever since.  Have not been back to any of the other sites.

I go to GBO exclusively.



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Re: don t yall love this forum..
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2010, 11:04:59 AM »
I have to say, I have not seen a better one.
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