What is your THR favorite "room" ?

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You know how you have a favorite room in a house? Perhaps that favorite "spot" in the house, next to a window during certain times of the day/ year?

Maybe it is a old chair, sofa, or just sitting on the floor. Some folks like to wander out to garage, workshop, or maybe the barn. Maybe a barstool while at the reloader, workbench, ugly old chair that is 'comfy' at the sewing machine.

Porch Sittin' is good...

Just got to thinking about THR in this perspective. So what is your favorite "spot"? The Forum where do find you graviate to the most. We seem to have gun solvent smells, smells of firearms fired or being cleaned, or forums where folks have crumpled letters to politicians to get a message across.

Yeah you Staff and Mod folks can choose something besides what you are chained to. :p

Steve
 
You mean THR room where we read and reply to posts?

It would have to be my computer/gun room.

I am close to lots of guns, ammo and my computers
where I can learn which firearm is best for zombies, werewolves and chupacabra.
 
Mine would have to be the three handgun forums. If I don't think I'll have time for all the new posts I tend to go there first.
 
Definitely the autoloader forum.

Next is the handgun general discussion & regular GD. After that is the shotgun and revolver forum. I tend to avoid the rifle forum because all the AR and AK talk is depressing to me. :(

Of course, I check the classifieds on a regular basis also.
 
my fav is to look at new post
never know what you are going to find

Like to do it from the lap top kicked back in the recliner !!!!!!!!1
 
I think you mean THR Rooms:
1 - revolvers
2 - bottom feeders

If you meant favorite home room:
1 - bathroom
2 - garage
3 - truck
 
Yeah I meant which THR forum. :)

<slaps forehead>

I forget some folks have a favorite spot to use their Computers in the home or office.
I suspect some have hidden with laptops in certain room of the house - with wireless - so as to not get caught being online to a forum ...or much worse perhaps...ordering something like ammo or milsurps.

If'n you want to share ever getting caught by the SO, or your kids with a laptop in the laundry room, under the stairs or some such trying to reply to a post - that would be funny!

Me, I got this real comfy old chair with a foot stool in the Shotgun forum.

Kinda situated to where in the winter I set my coffee on the hearth of the fireplace, I can toss my cigarette butts into the fireplace that way. When we put stew on the fireplace grates, I get the smells to waft my way.

Warmer months I set my iced tea on the window sill on the other side. Gots me a view on what all is going on outside.

No matter the season I got a line on the front door and the kitchen, can see whom is coming in - and can time just right when food is about ready in the kitchen - explains why I mangage to fill my plate first.

I go into Blackpowder Forums and get plum turned around, Need to talk to Gary about that, I keept tripping over his throw rug in there. :p
 
I think you already know mine, Steve.

Shotguns. Folks there are laid back and friendly. I'm doing more and more shotgun shooting just because of talking to those fine folks (folks include sm, along with Dave, Kudu, TrapperReady, Smoke and a bunch of others).

Second, hunting. Art and H&H make that one seem like a good place..
 
I spend an unhealthy amount of time posting inane drivel in the legal/political forum, but I spend most of my time actually reading the shotgun and revolver forums. There is just so much to actually learn in those rooms.
 
We got Larry sitting with his feet propped up on cases of 28 ga ammo. I have no idea what prompted that - nope - no idea at all. :p

Yeah I wander around and have other druthers as well. I know one darn thing, you do not sit in Art's Chair, don't matter if'n he is out back popping off a few rounds. Heck he even knows you have been in his chair at the kitchen table and you get up before he comes back in...;)
 
definetly the automatic handgun forum. shotguns would be a close second but the handgun people seem to be more active
 
Spend the most time reading in the general handgun and autoloader forums but I spend far too much time in L&P posting and letting other posts get me spun up ...
 
I'm in my favorite chair, desk in front of the window looking West out over 800 acres of lake. It's my spot. Favorite pics on the walls, bookcase full of books, lots of family memorabilia and a couple cats slinkin' around. My gramp's handmade mandolin, my dad's banjo and 2 ukalele's. 2 lamps made out of a tenor sax and a piccolo. From time to time a glass of wine and I'd have a cigar too, 'cept I'd like to go to bed without waking up dead due to the Wrath of SWMBO.:p

All my political stuff is here also. Got my nose into township and county gubmint. (One man CAN make a difference)

Legal and Political and General Gun is mostly my bailiwick, though I lurk in Handguns and Hunting forums. I spend a good deal of time at APS, as that is getting to be like hanging out with friends, even tho we have never "met". It's good to wrestle with differing opinions. One even learns something once in awhile. I also like the opportunity to send out something from the hip and heart to find out how stupid the comment really was. :D

Retirement looms in a couple of months and I'd like to be responsible for organizing a "ronyvoo" so that maybe a bunch of us can get to know one another better. Once in awhile I get a PM from a critter or two (sm you've been noticeable in your absence)

I like APS (our sister site) because it's getting to be a comfort zone place with a wide variety of stuff to talk and think about. Not to mention the good recipe's that show up. One is not limited to guns and civil rights. Only so much to talk about in that regard without getting redundant. (9MM vs .45--Is it a SKS or AK)
Lot's of great pics from P95 and others who are camera endowed and have the savvy to post 'em. Good puns abound and sometimes a thread just begs leaping in with silly stuff; and everybody does.

I do think we need another Lawdog escapade though.

Anywhoo, nice thread, Steve.
 
grampster-

I sent you an email not long ago.
It came back with a note :

sorry - grampster can't come the the computer right now, he got into the Toostie-Rolls I had hid and he left the cap off the Hoppe's No. 9 again..."

signed-
Mrs grampster.

:neener:

Take care my friend-

Steve
 
grampster

Go to Handguns > Revolvers, and look behind the books on second shelf, that is where Marko's hides Snicker's Bars from his munckin.

Chris keeps Heath Bars hidden in the drawer of the cabinet under the Picture of his Model 27 on the wall.

Shush - don't tell anyone. Been around long enough to know where stuff is hid around here.

I even know where Correia hides his Salsa and Chips in the Competition forum. :)
 
We got Larry sitting with his feet propped up on cases of 28 ga ammo.
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And Sadie playing with the shells. "Put that down, girl, you know your mama... Oh what the hey, let's go out back and shoot some clays."

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On any given day, I head mainly to the General Discussions and Rifle Country. There are exceptions, however.

If the muse moves me, I check around in the Autoloader forum. It's usually the same "My 1911 is Broken" and "Glock or 1911" thread over and over; sometimes, if I'm lucky, an old nostalgic "9mm or .45?" thread will be floating near the top.

On cooler, sometimes rainy days, I find myself looking in what I regard as the "Old Tech" forums, specifically Black Powder and Revolvers. They seem to be full of the quiet, unhurried type usually associated with the days where quick reloads were just for show and follow-up shots are rare. Sometimes, good advice can be found that has nothing to do with guns at all.

If I've just caught an episode of "West Wing," watched a little bit of news, or seen an eye-catching thread title on the main page, I'll head over to Legal and Political. I mainly just sit back and read the flame wars going on, trying to separate the BS and propoganda from facts and useful stuff. I'll usually either just hit the "Post Reply" button but cancel after a few minutes of thought, or go ahead and post a rant. Rarely do these ever get replied to, and I don't mind much. They're for venting--and besides, most politics is about personal gain anyhow. :)

If that forum starts disturbing me, I find myself clicking over to its little-talked-about younger brother, Strategies and Tactics. I find myself wanting to know more about how to live off the grid, just in case I might need to. I never lose the subconscious thought that I probably won't last a week, but I plan and stock up to make sure it ain't for lack of trying. I usually leave there trying to decide if people are merely joking around or if there's something actually between the lines. Between the posts, if you prefer.

And sometimes, I just stumble into the Shotgun forum. All I mostly do here is sit back and watch Larry Ashcraft, sm, and Dave McC banter on about the "good ol' days" with single-shot breakopens, 28ga, and the occasional story about runnin' afoul of some authority figure back around the age of nine. :D Shotguns seems to be laid-back, much like BP and revolvers; but with new tech coming out every day, it's taken on a new life of its own. It has its militaristic moments (which draws me greatly to the Rifle forum), but it's still an aspect of the shooting hobby that is almost entirely based on approximation. It's even a totally different form than rifle hunting--different terrain, different skills, and different recipes.

All in all, I dunno. It's like asking which part of White Sands I like best--to the naive eye, it's all the same, but each little area has its own characteristics, each just as valuable as the next one, but for wholly different reasons. As a visual person, I like fancy artwork and colors and shapes and the like.

Kinda weird that I'd be drawn to a forum as nondescript-looking as this. :);)
 
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