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I started visiting this place in 1997. I've learned a lot here!
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Don't remember how long, but 2000, at least.
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By no means one of the first ones, but I have been around for 13 1/2 years, it is hard to believe it has been that many years.
I met Ole Cowboy through this forum and we became good friends. He left us almost three years to this day.
Last edited by postoak; 01/05/16 11:21 PM.
Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
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It doesn't seem that it could be three years. Ole Cowboy was a genuine character. I ran across his contact information in my email address book the other day and couldn't bear to delete it. There are others in that same category. This was the first online discussion group I joined. I can't remember when. Sometime in the late 1990s.
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How many of us in this topic are Flatwater alums? I sure will miss Flatwater.
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yep...win 95, then win 97, then xp. still xp!
hey dave weber!!
since we are on the topic....
....any luck on that request?
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# 114, Jan 1, 2002. Found the old board when I had a question about my first shotgun, Brno ZP49, bought in Nairobi in 1979. I rarely post as I know so little, but you guys sure have made me buy a lot of guns since that first question.
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We should take action to resurrect Flatwater or something like it. I was talking with the Springfield contingent the other day and we all miss it terribly. Don't know exactly how to start and where we could have the same collegiality as at Grandpa's though.
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2003 according to my profile, but I'm sure it was a year or two before that.
I may have been the first Antipodean :-)
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Brian it's not that you are that old, or not just that. You signed up quickly after the last major system software change. Must have been within hours on the first day. I think the post before that change and ids were locked or not able to transfer to the new system.
Far be it from me to call anyone here old. Well a few served with Custer, Pershing, Patton. Come to think of it I know one here who did have Patton as a general. My late uncle did also and always said he might have been a SOB but he did not waste men like others did or they all did in WWI. What a waste. JFK was president when I enlisted, and there were still a lot of WWII vets in uniform back then. I feel very fortunate to have been trained by some of those guys. Likewise, a number of my CIA trainers were OSS vets from WWII.
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