Gotta agree with glajlu, TimboKahn: thanks. This IS a good idea.
For me, it's already been a very thought-provoking experience to see who's on the road. We seem a totally interesting bunch with a great diversity of age, ethnicities, body types and I suspect equally diverse backgrounds, philosophies, professions, etc.
Yet here we are together on this cyber-road, sharing a strong interest in, appreciation of, and respect for guns.
So far, I recognize the user names of a relatively small percentage (maybe 20%) of those posting images (because I've been in threads with them in the past), and look forward to seeing images of more of those that I do know.
But it's interesting that seeing a person in here for the first time makes me instantly feel like, "Wow, I'd like to know more about this person. Let me check their other posts to learn more about who they are, what they think, what they shoot (both guns and targets)."
And I suspect, for some reason, that by us seeing each other as people could - just
could - increase our level of mutual respect when we're hanging out in other threads, especially some of those that are say ...
... <ahem> a bit politically and/or philosophically <ahem>
shRILL. <ahem>
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I have as much interest in seeing older pics of people as current ones.
Kind of a photo album, of "here's where we've been".
I've attached three of me from the past.
1) circa 1950's with two cousins. That's me on the right.
(<jk> I was packing a BB pistol in an IWB </jk>)
2) just out of high school on a graduation trip to New Orleans.
3) on the way to becoming a hippie (pre-beard).
(I'm no longer a hippie, but I went through that phase ...)
Nem