Originally Posted by Drew Hause
Well this is a bummer. I started back through previous posts, and while the title remains, the contents of the post were not archived frown

BUT, having the exact title, if you Google it with DoubleGunBBS, AI can find it! smile A thread from 2017 - Type in DoubleGunBBS What makes a shotgun "feel good"? and it is the first posted
https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=488643&page=1

If you then click at the top "Next Thread" it will come up. Long process but it works and there are some interesting threads to review to keep you out of trouble wink

I'm struck, at least in the fall of 2017, the vast majority of threads are gun, shooting or hunting related and with little toxicity. And I've yet to find one locked.
Until this
https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=490765&page=5

years ago, by chance i discovered the wayback software, and immediately pursued an old motorcycle website that had been removed from service (ATK - of which i owned several). was quite excited to have a chance to retrieve much useful knowledge of interest - and consequently diappointed to learn that only the thread titles were preserved. lesson learned, the only safe way to preserve digital data is by downloading everything you want.

being retired has offered the ability to slowly sift through the doublegun archives - i have started at the back, and made my way up-to-date, and looked into titles that seem interesting, and created a paper listing of things of value to me. pinpointing them is somewhat problematic, because there is no starting date for the threads, only the date of the last entry - and on longer threads you may have to invest a good deal time in backtracking to return to the original post.

"it's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
lewis carroll, Alice in Wonderland