This forum is a special place

[bigvarmnt]

Sounds like a plan to me. I have a Maxi but only have shot 38/357s so far. But plan to fix that soon   Stella, my Beagle and I watched 15 deer browsing in my backyard about 11 pm last night for about 5-10 mins   Snow and moon made them stand out.

[petemi]

Mike, what you describe is the bottom line reason I live here and put up with the snow in winter, flies in Spring, frost in Summer, etc.  Just about now, the Northern Lights should begin.  Re-run that scene with the deer framed by them.  If ya head this way, bring Stella, she'll fit right in with my two beagles, setter/lab cross, feist, and inherited mutt.  If anyone has dogs to give away DON'T LOOK HERE.  I've got enough.

Pete

[squirrelslayer]

Geez boys, signed on for my daily dose of handi medicine last night and read this. Couldn't possibly agree more with everything said. Everyone here has been very helpful and more than kind. When I first signed up and saw the vast knowledge shared and read some of the post between you guys I knew it was a good bunch. Just the gesture of the reamer rental alone and the trust shared by everyone was impressive. Hope that I get to know everyone here a little better and hope even more that eventually I am able to help people here. Keep it up.

[gcrank1]

All the above, ain't it so!

[petemi]

I browse a few other forums and post on a couple.  When I first showed up on Marlin Owners, I was warmly greeted by Don, our own dpe.ahoy and Wind, a senior member there.  It's very warm and friendly, much like our own forum.  I've been to others, I won't name, where I was amazed at the curt, snide and often nasty one liners members hurled at each other.  I have posted there only to be either ignored or ridiculed.  Except for Marlin Owners, I gave it up and came home. 

On those other forums, I've read so much about our cheap junk, inaccurate, unreliable, dangerous, poorly put together and even imported Handis.  All this from really "qualified" people who are on the inside track and KNOW.  They come off that way, and unfortunately, other equally uninformed readers pick it up and pass it on.  The misconceptions about our Handis can stagger your imagination.  Whenever possible I direct them here to the Oracle of Truth presided over by our High Priest, Tim.    (Tim, I like that one )

Pete

[Ranger99]

so right sir!


i belong(ed) to another couple, and if
you don't use the latest and greatest
super magnum/long action/short action/
subsonic/silenced/ported barrel/ etc.
flavor of the month, well. . you're just
not worthy. to hear some of them, 30/30
and any pistol caliber rifle rounds spit
the bullet only to fall harmlessly to the
ground 40 yards from the muzzle, and
are only suitable for rabbits.


oh well. . . .those in the know shop here

[gcrank1]

Your comment reminds me of the following:
Trying to tell somebody who hasnt actually seen them about the Rocky Mtn's or Death Valley is, is........well......impossible.
And
"There are none so blind as they who will not see"

[Ranger99]

but . . . .i read it in a hunting magazine. . .( )

[quickdtoo]

Pete, I sure hope there are no vows of celibacy with that priesthood hat!! 

Tim

[petemi]

I don't think ya need to sweat it Tim.  You can double check with Father Gerald

Pete

[nanuk-O-dah-Nort]

P.S. - Please, to all my friends here who are lucky enough to still have your wives with you, remember my request to you, every morning and every evening, give your wife a hug and a kiss, tell her you love her, and do something special for her, something small and personal will do, get her her morning OJ, her slippers, get her a blanket if she is cold watching TV or reading, something just for her because you can still do it for her.
Someday she will be gone, and that pain is never ending and forever.
If you are lucky and the Lord blesses you, you may someday meet another person to spend the rest of your life with, but your wife will ALWAYS and FOREVER be there in your heart and your mind, until that day again when you can be with her in heaven....Andy....<><....    

Good Advice

I do that EVERYDAY!

[Robc10x]

This is exactly why I registered a few days ago. Thanks in advance or TIA or whatever the kids are calling it these days. I learned more about my new addiction in a few hours of browsing this place than the last few months combined on other sites. You mean you guys actually respond with respect!? What is this world coming to. Next thing you'll be having me write handwritten notes to people...

[Oldshooter]

This is exactly why I registered a few days ago. Thanks in advance or TIA or whatever the kids are calling it these days. I learned more about my new addiction in a few hours of browsing this place than the last few months combined on other sites. You mean you guys actually respond with respect!? What is this world coming to. Next thing you'll be having me write handwritten notes to people...

Welcome to the asylum! 

[cwlongshot]

This is exactly why I registered a few days ago. Thanks in advance or TIA or whatever the kids are calling it these days. I learned more about my new addiction in a few hours of browsing this place than the last few months combined on other sites. You mean you guys actually respond with respect!? What is this world coming to. Next thing you'll be having me write handwritten notes to people...

Welcome Rob!

Yup, this here is the place we like to be!  Grab a comfy chair and a coffee, tell momma your busy for a while... Welcome to your addiction. No known cure, but pretty soon you really will not care to find the cure cause this is the way we roll around here.

CW

[Robc10x]

Thanks for the warm welcome. It can be a little cold on the information superhighway. I can't believe I haven't found the Handi rifle until now, after 30 odd years of shooting. That's the fun thing about shooting and hunting - there's always something "new" out there. This is a bug I can afford and enjoy.

[Dinny]

Pete,
  Thanks for all the kind words. I look forward to the day when we get to meet. I wouldn't mind coming up there to Engadine to visit.....during the summer. 

GBO is the best!

Thanks, Dinny

[Doublebass73]

Pete,

I totally concur with everything you've said. This is the best forum with the nicest people. I've been to a bunch of other forums myself and dealt with the a-holes. This forum is unique compared to the others I've been to in that everyone here is genuine. Posting here is like relaxing by a good campfire and you feel like you've known these people your whole life even though most of us have never met.

[thumper113]

Only thing better than a .30-30 Handi is two of them and the folks that love them.

[YRUpunting?]

Pete I agree with you, this is a special place.  The documented information, helpful and knowledgeable folks and most importantly they are patient and respectful. 

[petemi]

Dinny, the latch string is out.  Y'all come.  Bring the wife and kids. Don't come in the late Spring or you'll need a boonie hat, head net and a jug of bug dope.  It hasn't been dry, and I think the tiny flying biting critters are gonna be bad.  Usually by July they quiet down.

Pete

[KIMBER45]

I have been helped here numerous times . It enabled me to solve any problems I've had ; as  Pete said- never a wise crack about my ignorance .

[jeepmann1948]

 "Usually by July they quiet down."

Is that when the first blizzard gets there?

"as  Pete said- never a wise crack about my ignorance "

Pete reserves that privilege for his"special" friends especially with regards to wise,correct, and sage comments about his posts. 

George

[frgerald]

Tim:  re: the celibacy thingee.......NO!  NO!  I have been married 50 years (although it took two times to get there  ).  There does come a time when celibacy is "forced" upon one  but so far it hasn't been by choice or requirement.     Gerald 

[quickdtoo]

Yup, been there, but there's always hope!   

Tim

[petemi]

Pete I agree with you, this is a special place.  The documented information, helpful and knowledgeable folks and most importantly they are patient and respectful.

Hey George...notice what he says about knowledgeable, patient and respectful     Pay attention...we ask questions later.

Pete

[Ol BW]

Man this thread reminds me of a beer commercial "I love you, man!" "Your not getting my H&R!". )

Guys I was crazy about Handis long before I found this site, and I combed the 'net to try to find the info contained here.  Once I found this site it not only quenched my thirst for knowledge, it kindled my addiction. 

What I didn't count on was finding a "internet" extended family.  (Or would that be "virtual" family. . .)

Now I am not only addicted to Handis, I'm addicted to this forum and everyone here!  I get online all the time when I have a chance!

I can now truly say:

My name is Brad and I am a GREYBEARD HANDIHAULIC! 
P.S.  You guys are ENABLERS in my addiction!!

BW

[frgerald]

That's what we are here for BW.   

[rdlange]

Mostly I don't post about how I feel, but without this forum and all of you great folks my life would be significantly less fine.  I click on here many time a day, and it always is a boost. 

Gratitude for the help I've gotten.  And especially to those who have taken extra time to contact me offline or express concern for my maybe foolishness.   Sometimes as a shooter, wannabe again hunter, I feel way different from the people around me, like on the job.

Thanks ALL...!

Tom

[glockmeister]

petemi, thanks for putting into words what many of us have thought for some time. GBO and MO are the only two forums I hang out on, good people having a good time, we kid each other ,but try not to be mean. The vast amount of knowledge on this forum is amazing, I learn something edvery time I come on this site. At my age(70) I have to go back and find alot due to CRS, but it is fun. Thanks again for puting into words what many of us have thought. Thanks and take care, John.

[gendoc]

The camaraderie here, the fellowship, friendliness, willingness to share, the help is unsurpassed anywhere on the internet.
I won't name the forums, but I have asked questions on quite a few and have been treated as an idiot, or ignored.  Folks ask reasonable questions and will be ignored or ridiculed.  Smart assed one liners are the standby reply, if any.  The "Good Old Boys" carry on and you're mostly ignored.

I've been here for six years.  I have close and intimate friendships with people I have never met face to face.  Tim, (quickdtoo), George, (jeepmann1948), Brent, (the janitor), Brian, (cwlongshot), Bobby (revbc), tacklebury, Stimpylu32 , Lewis, (44 Man) met him, shot together, Tom, (bikerbeans). frgerald, Frank, (Longtom), John, (gendoc), Dinny Etc., Etc., Etc, and Etc.  I don't mean to slight anyone.  I could go on forever, but it's not easy to do.  There's at least a hundred here I'd trust with my life.  I HAVE ABSOLUTE TRUST IN THESE PEOPLE.  Can you say that about anyone else anywhere on the internet?  Better yet, can I expect that from my next door neighbor?

In all the time I have been here, I have never met a sly or deceitful person trying to gain an advantage.  All I have received is help....and the best of all....friendship.  I didn't know anything about Handis when I wandered in here.  I know a tad bit more now thanks to our resident Handiholics.

Pete

pete, its folks like you that keep me here, because you never talk BS !! you never try and see how far you can go with others.
like a few here do. there here, and you know it and ignore it, I know you do.........   I try but sumtimes I blow my cool. but WTH !!!
many mornings quite early you and I are the only ones online, ain't it nice that there is no guessed answers given at that time.
no speculations or even uneducated guesses posted. then as times grows on, I gotta go.
but when I return your on here and I feel welcome before I read tha latest BS.
you are a major part of this forum. you, patti and your awesome stories. all make this place what is is. a great place which tha BS is second nature to us
real folks.
your friends from tha swamp
J1 and his tribe