Quickdraw22
I SPEAK DA THUGG!1!
Since I'm relatively new to the forum and see references to things like . what was going on?, maybe I need a BayouShooter history lesson, LOL
After the Sandy Hook school shooting, the site got flooded with $3000 DPMS AR's and $1500 WASR's. The For Sale section became a "Who can screw who the worst, and still get away with it". Unfortunately, people were actually buying at those prices, so the problem just kept getting worse. We began to police the price gougers, in a less than friendly way, and the moderators didn't like that (for some reason). Instead of removing the people who were only here to make a buck, they started banning people who spoke out. Quite a few super knowledgeable guys got banned or left because of these actions.
Between not being able to buy reasonably priced ammunition, and seeing people try to take advantage of a horrible situation - the "fun" of firearms quickly wore off. I honestly haven't been shooting in probably 2-3 years, considering I used to hit the range twice a week, and had just won my first few competitions.
I now feel like my father, who didn't know what the .40S&W cartridge was when I told him about it. Haha. People ask for my opinion on new guns, and I'm clueless. So many new models and manufacturers have come and gone in the past few years that I've become a complete dinosaur.
So, what used to be a super tight-knit community has become more like a smaller ARFcom, if that makes any sense...