Peter M. Eick
Member
I work internationally a lot so I drop off the "real" world for a few months at a time and then get back "on-line" and try to catch up on the forums.
Today after being gone for 2 months I was noticing a few patterns so I figured I would comment on them and see if others notice the trends. You will always get the standard trend questions on every forum. If you have read them awhile, you know what I mean. What I am commenting on is the deviations from the background chatter. It would be interesting to map this out somehow.
As I waded through the highroad/thefireingline/etc. (lots of posts in the last few months), I was immediately aware it was hunting season from all of the posts on rifles and ammo. There are the usual 30/30 questions and a few 30 carbine questions, but they have tapered off since the CMP sales. Not much on the short mags or the ultra mags recently. I guess they are falling out of favor. Seems like a few questions on the 25-308. That must be the new round "de-jour".
Hitting the handguns, it seems like not much on the EMP. I guess that tapered off. Seemed to be some on the 10mm and surprisingly a lot on the 357 Max. There are all the usual questions like will my gun take +P+ but not much new to see. I guess the P7PSP's are still flooding the market as there are a lot of new questions on it. Revolvers generate about 1/2 the questions as semi's still but the revolver seems to get more questions during hunting time. Not sure why, but you see it.
Going to Black-powder, it was a very quiet 2 months. Only a few interesting posts out there. Lots of the usual stuff though. More rifle stuff as it is hunting season.
Reloading has a lot of new folks. Prices for components and factory ammo must be very high as there were many new faces and many newbie type questions. Obviously a lot of first timers out there rolling their own. Nice to see the new crowd is asking questions. I guess nearly $100 a barrel oil has finally hit the factory ammo crowd. I know I am looking forward to my bonus for searching for the stuff.
Smithing was darn light. As I type this, I don't remember even a single post that really struck me. I saved a bunch of them, but I don't remember any high points.
That brings up a comment. I save every post I am interested to the hard drive and sort them out. After today's wading I only saved 798 threads to the disk. Pretty light for 2 months away from the forums. I master post dataset is now up to nearly 9 gigs so I have plenty to read when I travel.
Now on to specific forums comments.
I see levergun.com is back up. Nice new interface, but not a single post on the henry 1860 (uberti or otherwise).
I see that there is a lot of good stuff on the reloading bulletin board. I must have saved out 30 threads there.
Park city tactical is still swamped with P7PSP threads and boy does that drive down the price of my PSP's. I saw some for sale in the 6's and that is discouraging.
The m14 board had a bunch of good threads on the Supermatch and the National's. They seem to come in lumps over there and then it goes back to the background usual questions and answers. Not much in the reloading section this time though.
Smith and Wesson forum had a lot in the pre-wars for me that was on the 38/44's and Registereds. I must have saved out 100 threads at that site alone. Lots of good information and plenty of good questions. Maybe I am still in the learning phase there so it has more of interest.
Over on sigforum there was not a single post on the 229 sports but there is some speculation that the 357 sig is going the way of the 41 magnum. Not gone, but more of a rare round. Only two posts on the sig 210's. Weird. Normally there would be more. This is like the great 210 drought of 2004 (or was it 2003???)
Ruger forum got a new look, but not much on the 357 max in the last 2 months.
Rimfirecentral had a lot on the winchester 52 and 250's. Interesting how they are popular all of a sudden. Many posts about brooks over on the cz section but not a lot of new information there. It seems like a lot of 452 varmint owners are cutting the stock and bedding them. I might have to do that to mine.
Handloads online was a bit sparse this time. Only a few good threads to me. Actually they were not a lot of posts there to look at.
Glocktalk was getting a new look and was quite unstable. From the lack of posts I would guess that it has had some problems in the last couple of months. The reloading section is drowned with chaff this time. Only a few really good nuggets of wheat in there to sort out.
Coltforum seems to be focusing on the new services. They seem very popular this time. Several good diamondback posts there.
Only a few interesting (to me) posts in the beretta forum. That one has really slowed down in the last year or so. Only 3 84F posts and a few 87t posts.
Almost nothing in the automag forum. I don't think I saved a single thread.
1911forum had a few questions in the smithing and the reloading but the kernels in colt forum on the 38 super were great. Several good threads on the super and what can be done to improve the accuracy. I saw a good thread on the Baer Monoliths, but I figured it was too old to add on to.
Well that is my observation of the last two months on the gun threads. Obviously this is biased to my interests, but I thought others might be interested.
So what broad generalizations can you all make about the recent directions and observations of the general gun forums?
Today after being gone for 2 months I was noticing a few patterns so I figured I would comment on them and see if others notice the trends. You will always get the standard trend questions on every forum. If you have read them awhile, you know what I mean. What I am commenting on is the deviations from the background chatter. It would be interesting to map this out somehow.
As I waded through the highroad/thefireingline/etc. (lots of posts in the last few months), I was immediately aware it was hunting season from all of the posts on rifles and ammo. There are the usual 30/30 questions and a few 30 carbine questions, but they have tapered off since the CMP sales. Not much on the short mags or the ultra mags recently. I guess they are falling out of favor. Seems like a few questions on the 25-308. That must be the new round "de-jour".
Hitting the handguns, it seems like not much on the EMP. I guess that tapered off. Seemed to be some on the 10mm and surprisingly a lot on the 357 Max. There are all the usual questions like will my gun take +P+ but not much new to see. I guess the P7PSP's are still flooding the market as there are a lot of new questions on it. Revolvers generate about 1/2 the questions as semi's still but the revolver seems to get more questions during hunting time. Not sure why, but you see it.
Going to Black-powder, it was a very quiet 2 months. Only a few interesting posts out there. Lots of the usual stuff though. More rifle stuff as it is hunting season.
Reloading has a lot of new folks. Prices for components and factory ammo must be very high as there were many new faces and many newbie type questions. Obviously a lot of first timers out there rolling their own. Nice to see the new crowd is asking questions. I guess nearly $100 a barrel oil has finally hit the factory ammo crowd. I know I am looking forward to my bonus for searching for the stuff.
Smithing was darn light. As I type this, I don't remember even a single post that really struck me. I saved a bunch of them, but I don't remember any high points.
That brings up a comment. I save every post I am interested to the hard drive and sort them out. After today's wading I only saved 798 threads to the disk. Pretty light for 2 months away from the forums. I master post dataset is now up to nearly 9 gigs so I have plenty to read when I travel.
Now on to specific forums comments.
I see levergun.com is back up. Nice new interface, but not a single post on the henry 1860 (uberti or otherwise).
I see that there is a lot of good stuff on the reloading bulletin board. I must have saved out 30 threads there.
Park city tactical is still swamped with P7PSP threads and boy does that drive down the price of my PSP's. I saw some for sale in the 6's and that is discouraging.
The m14 board had a bunch of good threads on the Supermatch and the National's. They seem to come in lumps over there and then it goes back to the background usual questions and answers. Not much in the reloading section this time though.
Smith and Wesson forum had a lot in the pre-wars for me that was on the 38/44's and Registereds. I must have saved out 100 threads at that site alone. Lots of good information and plenty of good questions. Maybe I am still in the learning phase there so it has more of interest.
Over on sigforum there was not a single post on the 229 sports but there is some speculation that the 357 sig is going the way of the 41 magnum. Not gone, but more of a rare round. Only two posts on the sig 210's. Weird. Normally there would be more. This is like the great 210 drought of 2004 (or was it 2003???)
Ruger forum got a new look, but not much on the 357 max in the last 2 months.
Rimfirecentral had a lot on the winchester 52 and 250's. Interesting how they are popular all of a sudden. Many posts about brooks over on the cz section but not a lot of new information there. It seems like a lot of 452 varmint owners are cutting the stock and bedding them. I might have to do that to mine.
Handloads online was a bit sparse this time. Only a few good threads to me. Actually they were not a lot of posts there to look at.
Glocktalk was getting a new look and was quite unstable. From the lack of posts I would guess that it has had some problems in the last couple of months. The reloading section is drowned with chaff this time. Only a few really good nuggets of wheat in there to sort out.
Coltforum seems to be focusing on the new services. They seem very popular this time. Several good diamondback posts there.
Only a few interesting (to me) posts in the beretta forum. That one has really slowed down in the last year or so. Only 3 84F posts and a few 87t posts.
Almost nothing in the automag forum. I don't think I saved a single thread.
1911forum had a few questions in the smithing and the reloading but the kernels in colt forum on the 38 super were great. Several good threads on the super and what can be done to improve the accuracy. I saw a good thread on the Baer Monoliths, but I figured it was too old to add on to.
Well that is my observation of the last two months on the gun threads. Obviously this is biased to my interests, but I thought others might be interested.
So what broad generalizations can you all make about the recent directions and observations of the general gun forums?