Did this one finally go Dark? My device can no longer find it.

Best,
Ted

https://shootingsportsman.com/community/guns-ammunition/

I went to the main SS site and linked to the discussion page. There is an announcement the board was going to be down in mid June for a couple days for maintenance but looks as though it’s still down.

Correction— it is up and running but nothing is happening over there. Moribund.

I think it's only resting, like a Norwegian Blue.

It's been all but dead for a long time.

SRH

Special Ed essentially killed it years ago.

I sincerely hope it stays functional. There's one individual that really needs to stay over there.

SRH

Lemme guess- Chris Batha? RWTF

Guess again

This.

Best,
Ted

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I know who you’re referring to and I agree 100%.

When I first became interested in doubles, SSBB was a good forum. It was about the time the RBL launch edition was coming out, and there was a lot of discussion on wait times, wood quality vs expectations, etc. Now you can check it once every few months and not miss anything.

The board devolved sadly.

I leave it to others to identify the causes.

Yep, there was a dust up when the ssbb administrator started censoring people with a conservative viewpoint. Many of the regulars left and started their own board. That was the beginning of the end of the SSBB.

The content decline started about the time that the investment counselor builked some of the members out of a few million dollars.

Then, there were a couple members who had their collections stolen, after displaying them, and the high dollar gun owners quit providing free content to the website.
And then finally you have The poison of politics.

No Sportsman’s website focusing on a narrow niche, can survive with predominately political postings.

The divisions are two great, and the canyons are too wide, and it drives people away.

So, lose your content contributors, provide a form for your membership to line up on either side of an imaginary line, and the results are inevitable.

The parody board that spun off from the original SSBB was hilarious. Didn’t last long though.

If you think that is bad there are a couple of members here that are hockey fans. One is constantly disrupting threads by mentioning this ridiculous sport. This member recently mentioned Brad Marchand (a no good, dirty, Nova Scotian rat) and got a gentlemanly discussion about our founding fathers shut down. Another is a fan of a team in a large city in Kwee-beck. This type of person would take the last beer or sea urchin in the snack bowl.


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Don’t get me started on the golfers. Freaks.

lonesome, Dave, promptly and correctly, and shut down the thread after keith's ad hominem post.

The NOT board was a hoot. I think it's still operational but now there is a mandatory membership fee.

notssmbbs.com is still up and running and generates some pretty lively exchanges. Unfiltered would be a gracious way to put it. Lots of good information in among the exchanges.