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I don't know about you old retired folks like me that are early risers. I usually go to bed at the time you guys get up. Don't matter what time I go to bed but 4 hours later I'm up. So I check this place through out the night, day, and evening.
 
I have, over the years, developed a method for "consuming" THR.
My pinned bookmark takes me to the Alerts page--not so much for "likes" as for Quotes. Those get added as Tabs as needed. Then, I change the focus to New Posts, and scroll through all the new content looking for what catches my interest, or wants looking into again. Each of those is opened in a new tab until I get to "No New Posts" (which can be ten pages or two). I then shift the focus to the right most tab (least "newest"), and go through each tab in turn.

This would not be very useful on tablets or other mobile devices; but, on my desktop it gives me a healthy dose of THR over the whole range of subfora.
 
ms6852 said:
I don't know about you old retired folks like me that are early risers. I usually go to bed at the time you guys get up. Don't matter what time I go to bed but 4 hours later I'm up. So I check this place through out the night, day, and evening.
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I currently work from 6pm to 6am, so I have a chance to post a bunch of nonsense that most people won't read for a few hours. Since there is little to no activity while I am awake, I do a lot of surfing of forums that get little traffic in search of something that interests me.
 
Trey Veston said:
I currently work from 6pm to 6am, so I have a chance to post a bunch of nonsense that most people won't read for a few hours. Since there is little to no activity while I am awake, I do a lot of surfing of forums that get little traffic in search of something that interests me.
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So I'm guessing there is very little activity right now. Just noticed the alert. I was doing some online shopping and pulled the trigger on a Springfield Armory TRP 10mm long slide. I wanted the Dan Wesson Kodiak but it was not available and did not want to wait. I'll used the savings to buy a shoulder rig and dies and ammo. It's going to be a loooong 3 day wait for shipping.
 
ms6852 said:
So I'm guessing there is very little activity right now. Just noticed the alert. I was doing some online shopping and pulled the trigger on a Springfield Armory TRP 10mm long slide. I wanted the Dan Wesson Kodiak but it was not available and did not want to wait. I'll used the savings to buy a shoulder rig and dies and ammo. It's going to be a loooong 3 day wait for shipping.
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Nice! I spend more money at night when working and bored than I do any other time. If I go down the rabbit hole of researching a particular gun, then I will often end up finding a deal I can't pass up and order something.
 
When I was younger, I loved reading the anecdotes of the old timers; Jeff Cooper, Skeeter, Stephen Camp later on, Elmer Keith, Massad Ayoob, Tales from the high lonesome, Jeff and Boge Quinn, Bill Jordan, Sheriff Jim, etc.
Mainly, I liked how they shared their lives with us, sure, it was gun related but not always.
I miss that generation and even if a few of them are still around, they've gotten older and living their lives quieter. Those older writers were like family and their words painted an America I loved, that, more than anything got me into guns. I read how the Grey rural squirrel was so much harder to hunt than it's city cousin, which I found to be nonsense but nonetheless I loved the adventure their words described. I'm less interested in the technology than I am in the community here though I always learn something new and have saved much grief doing research here first. I found THR sometime around 2002, I must have had over a thousand posts up by 2006 when thehighroad.org took over from thehighroad.us due to litigation between Derek and Oleg, so, I've been here a spell, it was the wild west of the internet back then and many members never came back. It helped me through some very hard times what with retiring from LE (1997) and my divorce (2002-2004). In 2006 I retired from the Reserves and I was "lost" not quite knowing how to readjust to civilian life.
I took menial jobs, was later hired by an Alphabet Agency but couldn't get past the polygraph (some things you don't talk about-ever) and the polygraph knows your hiding something but the humans can't know unless you're dumb enough to tell them. So I Blessed God for saving me from making a mistake and went back to being a Janitor, a Bus Driver, an oil field hand. Thank God Almighty I no longer care to impress anyone but I sure do miss the Nam era grunts but most of them are out to pasture. We used to have guys serving in Afghanistan and Iraq that would check in once in a while but I haven't seen much of them either, hope they're ok.
I'm just a relic now, but it would be nice if people lightened up and realized that forums like this is are our last refuge, the only thing most youngsters care about is magazine capacity and if this polymer is lighter than that one. Is it addiction? Maybe, worst that can happen is you go nuts like me and buy a M65-3 for more than twice it's worth because you just have to have it. Believe me fellas, this is more community then it seems. Take it for what it's worth from a guy that hasn't slept a night in 2 years (what is it with getting older and insomnia).
 
george29 said:
When I was younger, I loved reading the anecdotes of the old timers; Jeff Cooper, Skeeter, Stephen Camp later on, Elmer Keith, Massad Ayoob, Tales from the high lonesome, Jeff and Boge Quinn, Bill Jordan, Sheriff Jim, etc.
Mainly, I liked how they shared their lives with us, sure, it was gun related but not always.
I miss that generation and even if a few of them are still around, they've gotten older and living their lives quieter. Those older writers were like family and their words painted an America I loved, that, more than anything got me into guns. I read how the Grey rural squirrel was so much harder to hunt than it's city cousin, which I found to be nonsense but nonetheless I loved the adventure their words described. I'm less interested in the technology than I am in the community here though I always learn something new and have saved much grief doing research here first. I found THR sometime around 2002, I must have had over a thousand posts up by 2006 when thehighroad.org took over from thehighroad.us due to litigation between Derek and Oleg, so, I've been here a spell, it was the wild west of the internet back then and many members never came back. It helped me through some very hard times what with retiring from LE (1997) and my divorce (2002-2004). In 2006 I retired from the Reserves and I was "lost" not quite knowing how to readjust to civilian life.
I took menial jobs, was later hired by an Alphabet Agency but couldn't get past the polygraph (some things you don't talk about-ever) and the polygraph knows your hiding something but the humans can't know unless you're dumb enough to tell them. So I Blessed God for saving me from making a mistake and went back to being a Janitor, a Bus Driver, an oil field hand. Thank God Almighty I no longer care to impress anyone but I sure do miss the Nam era grunts but most of them are out to pasture. We used to have guys serving in Afghanistan and Iraq that would check in once in a while but I haven't seen much of them either, hope they're ok.
I'm just a relic now, but it would be nice if people lightened up and realized that forums like this is are our last refuge, the only thing most youngsters care about is magazine capacity and if this polymer is lighter than that one. Is it addiction? Maybe, worst that can happen is you go nuts like me and buy a M65-3 for more than twice it's worth because you just have to have it. Believe me fellas, this is more community then it seems. Take it for what it's worth from a guy that hasn't slept a night in 2 years (what is it with getting older and insomnia).
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You're a treasure as well, George. Don't ever forget that.
 
george29 said:
When I was younger, I loved reading the anecdotes of the old timers; Jeff Cooper, Skeeter, Stephen Camp later on, Elmer Keith, Massad Ayoob, Tales from the high lonesome, Jeff and Boge Quinn, Bill Jordan, Sheriff Jim, etc.
Mainly, I liked how they shared their lives with us, sure, it was gun related but not always.
I miss that generation and even if a few of them are still around, they've gotten older and living their lives quieter. Those older writers were like family and their words painted an America I loved, that, more than anything got me into guns. I read how the Grey rural squirrel was so much harder to hunt than it's city cousin, which I found to be nonsense but nonetheless I loved the adventure their words described. I'm less interested in the technology than I am in the community here though I always learn something new and have saved much grief doing research here first. I found THR sometime around 2002, I must have had over a thousand posts up by 2006 when thehighroad.org took over from thehighroad.us due to litigation between Derek and Oleg, so, I've been here a spell, it was the wild west of the internet back then and many members never came back. It helped me through some very hard times what with retiring from LE (1997) and my divorce (2002-2004). In 2006 I retired from the Reserves and I was "lost" not quite knowing how to readjust to civilian life.
I took menial jobs, was later hired by an Alphabet Agency but couldn't get past the polygraph (some things you don't talk about-ever) and the polygraph knows your hiding something but the humans can't know unless you're dumb enough to tell them. So I Blessed God for saving me from making a mistake and went back to being a Janitor, a Bus Driver, an oil field hand. Thank God Almighty I no longer care to impress anyone but I sure do miss the Nam era grunts but most of them are out to pasture. We used to have guys serving in Afghanistan and Iraq that would check in once in a while but I haven't seen much of them either, hope they're ok.
I'm just a relic now, but it would be nice if people lightened up and realized that forums like this is are our last refuge, the only thing most youngsters care about is magazine capacity and if this polymer is lighter than that one. Is it addiction? Maybe, worst that can happen is you go nuts like me and buy a M65-3 for more than twice it's worth because you just have to have it. Believe me fellas, this is more community then it seems. Take it for what it's worth from a guy that hasn't slept a night in 2 years (what is it with getting older and insomnia).
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Thanks for sharing your story.........And take care ........B B.....
 
george29 said:
When I was younger, I loved reading the anecdotes of the old timers; Jeff Cooper, Skeeter, Stephen Camp later on, Elmer Keith, Massad Ayoob, Tales from the high lonesome, Jeff and Boge Quinn, Bill Jordan, Sheriff Jim, etc.
Mainly, I liked how they shared their lives with us, sure, it was gun related but not always.
I miss that generation and even if a few of them are still around, they've gotten older and living their lives quieter. Those older writers were like family and their words painted an America I loved, that, more than anything got me into guns. I read how the Grey rural squirrel was so much harder to hunt than it's city cousin, which I found to be nonsense but nonetheless I loved the adventure their words described. I'm less interested in the technology than I am in the community here though I always learn something new and have saved much grief doing research here first. I found THR sometime around 2002, I must have had over a thousand posts up by 2006 when thehighroad.org took over from thehighroad.us due to litigation between Derek and Oleg, so, I've been here a spell, it was the wild west of the internet back then and many members never came back. It helped me through some very hard times what with retiring from LE (1997) and my divorce (2002-2004). In 2006 I retired from the Reserves and I was "lost" not quite knowing how to readjust to civilian life.
I took menial jobs, was later hired by an Alphabet Agency but couldn't get past the polygraph (some things you don't talk about-ever) and the polygraph knows your hiding something but the humans can't know unless you're dumb enough to tell them. So I Blessed God for saving me from making a mistake and went back to being a Janitor, a Bus Driver, an oil field hand. Thank God Almighty I no longer care to impress anyone but I sure do miss the Nam era grunts but most of them are out to pasture. We used to have guys serving in Afghanistan and Iraq that would check in once in a while but I haven't seen much of them either, hope they're ok.
I'm just a relic now, but it would be nice if people lightened up and realized that forums like this is are our last refuge, the only thing most youngsters care about is magazine capacity and if this polymer is lighter than that one. Is it addiction? Maybe, worst that can happen is you go nuts like me and buy a M65-3 for more than twice it's worth because you just have to have it. Believe me fellas, this is more community then it seems. Take it for what it's worth from a guy that hasn't slept a night in 2 years (what is it with getting older and insomnia).
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Thanks for your service.
 
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