Mac used to post on this very forum occasionally, as I remember. I took an article of his to task...and I do not believe he has posted on here since.
Stan: I think you are giving yourself too much credit. I doubt whether Mac would know you if you were standing side-by-side in a elevator. What happens to Mac and other knowledgeable gun writers who can devote their time to gainful employment elsewhere is the cumulative effect of all the task-takers and quibblers and uninformed web-junkies who are just dying to have their say, but have nothing to say, and say it anyway.
My original point was that if there is some technical matter published by a magazine, like SSM or DGJ, that the item could and should be a simple correction in the next issue, and should not involve debate in the Letters to Editor column.
For this simple policy statement I was called an "apologist" in a posting here, and my preoccupation with the Parker Gun was called "childish" in another, where the poster condemned me for not knowing about a Lindner? or some such gun known to so few that one doesn't need to remove footwear to count all who care about such things. Is it any wonder that recognized experts like Mac have given up in apparent disgust?
Check out parkergun.org (from which I am blocked) and you will notice a conspicuous absence of acknowledged Parker experts (save "Eightbore"). Anybody who is on the BOD or heads up a committee avoids posting like the plague. The co-authors of
The Parker Story are never heard from. The content has largely degenerated into bull-session threads, "Me and Joe" went hunting blogging, and answers to frequently asked questions...over and over and over
ad nauseum. In this context, the give and take of this Forum is a breath of fresh air. Though there is a downside...
For example, the grousing on another thread about the content of the DGJ and SSM not being up to the high standards of those who demonstrate their own inability to state completely a unified thought. Sometimes I wonder if there aren't a bunch of high-school jokesters on this site, just jacking us around for the fun of it. Most of what is posted doesn't show a real knowledge of the subject matter. Debate is too often not point-and-counterpoint to test a fact stated, but turns personal for lack of case-on-point information.
If it is a fact that Stan drove Mac from this Forum, I say congratulations, not that Stan did anything that in real life would deserve approbation, but, after all, this is the Internet, the most democratic of all media, where every man is King in his own opinion, and through cyberspace it's impossible to tell if he (Stan, not Mac) has any clothes. EDM
