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Crackerz

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Tonight, I noted to someone it was silly to complain about his wife being upset when she caught him looking at something in Brackish Waters. He insisted that "it shouldn't have been posted" there for her to see. He didn't seem to understand the concept of having to apply for admittance to the forum, to view items as such. During our "discussion" I noted to him that he had almost 4000 posts, and "ONE" posted feedback; that he was a "talker, and not a walker". It got me thinking; I thought this site was for trading and/or selling firearms, parts, accessories, outdoor related hardware items, and other related items, and also including discussion of items related thereof. I don't have a problem with the site's content, but what surprises me is, after a little recon, that there are a LOT of members here who obviously are not interested in friendly trade and/or commerce. I noted another member with almost 27,000 posts, and 20 deals. The more members I checked out, the more surprised I became. Just curious. While I do enjoy a limited amount of distraction, my primary purpose for being a member, and supporting the site, is for commerce; finding and buying items I want and/or need, and selling those I don't have use for anymore. I'm not complaining, I'm just curious about others individual motives for being a member here.
 
I like to talk and I like to post about things that interest me. I like to post to other peoples post when they interest me or when they get a rise out of me.
If you look at my feedback you see 3. But that hardly shows my real trade number. I've traded with quite a few people and never gotten feedback from them. It doesn't bother me. I see this feedback as a lot like ebay feedback where I have about 1800 unique feedback and around 3500 total feedback. I don't sweat how many trades a person has made. Even if they are showing a negative I'll look at the negative and see if it is something that really matters or just a trader needing to vent their spleen.

ODT is a lot of things to a lot of people. I love the technical post, I enjoy brackish waters and appreciate that while it's racy it isn't porno. I like asking questions and getting valid answers after I wade through some of the smart alek responses.

I do have to say that over the last 3 or 4 months I've found less and less guns that interest me up for sale. I am not interested in trading, when i get something I like it stays in the safe and if I don't like it I don't get it in the first place. If I don't see a sell price then I press on. A lot of my interest is in military arms, especially the C&R type and I see very few of them that have not been molested up for sale less than an hour drive from me. I'll keep reading, when I see something I want maybe my feedback will go up by 1 or maybe it won't. I'm not sweating the numbers.

Anyway, that's why I'm here. I really enjoyed the M&G up near Suwanee. I am on call every other weekend so it's not often that the date of a M&G falls on a day that I can actually leave the office. I enjoy people posting about them and hope that something fairly close by happens on a weekend when I'm off so I can attend another.
 
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