Why this is a better place for me.

[gokyo]

I was gone today having a great time shooting and then came home and played with my kids. Then finished watch Big Fish (kind of made me feel a little choked up at the end.) Then was gonna start cleaning guns.

Befoer I got started I thought I would check in on GP. I just finished reading how Freak checked in on a client and member of this site.

As I was reading the thread I started getting a little nervous about how it was gonna turn out.

It comes down to this when you live in a small town (or smaller web community) people know each other and look out for each other. Much of our country has become very large, urban/suburban and impresonal.

In this last year some pretty horrible things have happened. Reloading has been a way for me to get through it. GTR was a place where I could learn and hang out.

However GP is a place where I feel welcomed. Kind of reminds me of Cheers.

Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.

Just my 2 cents

[MakeMineaP99]

I've always said GP is a cross between the cigar shop, watering hole and gun shop, all rolled into one. Good analysis, GP sounds just like Cheers (I might start using that one, it's less typing). Pull up a chair, grab some Maker's Mark and stay a while.

[creophus]

I like this site too! Let's get shirts and hats and buttons and and...

well you get it. I like the site.

[Pitmaster]

I've got 3 different hobbies where this happens. I read about 6-8 firearm forums daily, 3 BBQ email lists, and 2 other sites. The same support and concern is on each one of them.

[MakeMineaP99]

How do you have time to work?

[slowride]

Great place, and great company. I started reloading early last year, and everyone here had a hand in getting me where I am today.

I've loaded 1000s of rounds and sent them all down range. Thanks guys.

[soundwave]

However GP is a place where I feel welcomed. Kind of reminds me of Cheers.

Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.

Just my 2 cents

I'm Cliff Clavin!

For real, I am proud to be a member here. Outstanding people and info, and a few bottom feeding Dillon users :yikes:

[Steve Koski]

I'm Steve Koski.

I own a gun.

Don't tell anyone.

[MakeMineaP99]

I'm Steve Koski.

I own a gun.

Don't tell anyone.

You own a gun? How the hell did you pass the background check?

[bhawkeye]

Steve,

It's not the gun you need to worry about folks letting out - its the Fandango Fire project. :supergrin:

[Pitmaster]

How do you have time to work?

I squeeze as little in as possible. Plus I don't read every post in every thread. I just check the new posts, thread titles, and forums. I screen pretty well. Some subjects I'm not interested in so I pass right over them.

[Jammer Six]

Pitmaster, you need to change your avatar. Seriously.

[Oreo]

I thought that was actually him?

[webyourbusiness]

I thought that was actually him?

says pitmaster on the white board - course and photo editing tools could make that happen...

[sparky241]

I agree this place is like cheers. And after reading the post last night and Adam going the extra mile and checking on that guy...Well...it even made me feel even more welcome. I for one am very glad to know all of you and dearly appreciate Bigslick and the other admins for starting this place.

[MullahElRon]

I'm Steve Koski.

I own a gun.

Don't tell anyone.
Leadfooted bastage! :auto:

[BigSlick]

He still on parole for dat lil incident ain't he Mullah ?

[Charly]

+1 on all the compliments about this place


time for a big groupe hug, com'on everybody !!!!

[psyop]

Pitmaster, you need to change your avatar. Seriously.

Yeah. I had to re evaluate my penetration criteria.

[Brass Nazi]

You own a gun? How the hell did you pass the background check?


He gives discounted insurance premiums to the women at the ATF office.

[Steve Koski]

Between federal and state governments, I figure there are at least 8 copies of my fingerprints on file.

[Jammer Six]

Between federal and state governments, I figure there are at least 8 copies of my fingerprints on file.
I joined the army to get away from home and stop taking orders.

My first decision as an adult, therefore, was 50% successful. I did, in fact, get away from home. Completely.

My second action, as an independent adult, was to tell Drill Sergeant Olguin that I was not interested in being printed for the U.S. Army.

That action did not have the success rating that my first action had. That action, in fact, wasn't anywhere NEAR as successful as my first action.

There are many, many copies of my fingerprints on file. Drill Sergeant Olguin taught me a special, private class about fingerprints. It required many, many copies of MY fingerprints.

It took me DAYS to wash the ink off.

[lcarreau]

I joined the army to get away from home and stop taking orders.

My first decision as an adult, therefore, was 50% successful. I did, in fact, get away from home. Completely.

My second action, as an independent adult, was to tell Drill Sergeant Olguin that I was not interested in being printed for the U.S. Army.

That action did not have the success rating that my first action had. That action, in fact, wasn't anywhere NEAR as successful as my first action.

There are many, many copies of my fingerprints on file. Drill Sergeant Olguin taught me a special, private class about fingerprints. It required many, many copies of MY fingerprints.

It took me DAYS to wash the ink off.



:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[BigSlick]

Walk it off, you a be aiight

[Steve Koski]

Leadfooted bastage! :auto:
The man stuck it to me. Damn the man!

[Jammer Six]

The man stuck it to me. Damn the man!
Do not say "damn the man" within five posts of a post mentioning Drill Sergeant Olguin.

If we piss him off, he will rise up out of his grave and KILL us.

Seriously. :gnorsi:

[Steve Koski]

Not that man, "THE man." I would never piss off a DI. That's like, well, asking for a visit from the tinsel fairy, mebbe worse.

[funkstafunkie]

Guns are bad. You should give them all to me so I can make sure they don't hurt nobody. And while you're at it, I'm accepting chronograph donations, too.

[Steve Koski]

I know of a few chronographs with minor bullet wear.

[funkstafunkie]

I know of a few chronographs with minor bullet wear.I've got a couple of those, too, if by "minor bullet wear," you mean "no longer functional due to minor bullet wear."

[hugginsvilleH&A]

ahhh home sweet home,:supergrin:

[lcarreau]

ahhh home sweet home,:supergrin:


Not sure why, but the Koski avatar has come to be one of those comfortably familiar sites, kinda like the familar shape of the oil slick in my driveway.

-Lonnie

[Steve Koski]

I've got a couple of those, too, if by "minor bullet wear," you mean "no longer functional due to minor bullet wear."
Yeah, I mean a big arsed hole through the brain.

[Steve Koski]

ahhh home sweet home,:supergrin:
Hey Huggy!

Good to see ya.

[VN350X10]

my prints don't exist.....

[hugginsvilleH&A]

thanks be to freak for letting me know where everybody went, I'm a newby yes, but feel very much a part of this disfunctional family,

[lcarreau]

thanks be to freak for letting me know where everybody went, I'm a newby yes, but feel very much a part of this disfunctional family,


Thats the idea Huggins!:cheers2:

[AFPD 118]

Great people here, sort of like a family :supergrin:

[Pitmaster]

Pitmaster, you need to change your avatar. Seriously.

I just got a pm from Eric on GlockTalk stating naked men photos were not allowed. I wrote back that he was wearing a thong. I did change the avatar though. I'm hoping I can get some camo shorts and a white muscle shirt photoshopped on so I can pass all of these freedom loving censors on the gun boards.

[gokyo]

I just got a pm from Eric on GlockTalk stating naked men photos were not allowed..

For goodness sake do not change your avatar on my account. In fact I kind of like looking at it. It makes me feel a little less overweight.

[BigSlick]

I just got a pm from Eric on GlockTalk stating naked men photos were not allowed. I wrote back that he was wearing a thong.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Dat pic has been chopped before, from a time long long ago an a place far far away

[Phunahm]

I just got a pm from Eric on GlockTalk stating naked men photos were not allowed. I wrote back that he was wearing a thong. I did change the avatar though. I'm hoping I can get some camo shorts and a white muscle shirt photoshopped on so I can pass all of these freedom loving censors on the gun boards. I just kinds read the end of this thread are you serious on the PM From Eric?? :confused:

[pastprime]

I have a comfortable feeling at this site....the people posting here seem to be a little less imtimiating than the Glock site I used to visit....seems as though the higher IQ's have migrated here...me excluded...

Hope I am here next year this time.....be interesting to look back and see the progress...

[Pitmaster]

I just kinds read the end of this thread are you serious on the PM From Eric?? :confused:

Yep. Same from Defensive Carry.

My guess is they don't want to offend the ladies or children. No big deal to me. Besides I've still got this one which is allowed.

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