Specialty pistols.com

[rabbit9146]

Didn’t know if anyone here was involved in the specialty pistols forums. I haven’t been on in a few weeks and noticed the site was down yesterday. Does anyone know what happened and how long it will be down?

[blazenet]

Owner shut it down permanent , it is now part of savageshooters.com

[pacecars]

They also have a section at www.longrangehunting.com/forums/specialty-handgun-hunting.29/

[rabbit9146]

Damn. All that history and recorded knowledge lost.

[Encore64]

And this is why I'm part of a small minority that believes in books...

[taffin]

Jan 22, 2023 9:52:50 GMT -5 Encore64 said:

And this is why I'm part of a small minority that believes in books...

YES!! And I can't sit in my favorite chair wrapped in my favorite blanket while reading a computer screen.

[jeffh]

Jan 22, 2023 9:52:50 GMT -5 Encore64 said:

And this is why I'm part of a small minority that believes in books...

AND, you can still read the when the power's out and you're using an old Aladdin #12 to illuminate your abode.

I was not a member, but had the "long-gun" sub-forum bookmarked and would check in occasionally.  That forum was pretty much carried by one guy, but I'd occasionally see something of interest.  Didn't have enough to contribute myself, so I never signed up.

Lat time I looked, I got a message requiring me to be a member, but I hadn't decided to join.  Guess it wouldn't have mattered.

[aciera]

When I say I had to move a ton of books folks don’t know I’m serious

[jeffh]

Jan 22, 2023 11:04:28 GMT -5 aciera said:

When I say I had to move a ton of books folks don’t know I’m serious

I believe it!

When I moved (1988) I had half a large room full of books.  Hen my best friend moved a few years ago, he had a large, livable basement and started a "library," to which I donated four large boxes of gun-specific books.  I still have twice that many, still unpacked.

[bigbrowndog]

I have a box of books that got lost from my last move 5 years ago, sadly there are some very desirable books in that box, Ruarks-Use enough gun among them. It’ll turn up somewhere attic or garage.

Trapr

[Encore64]

I really enjoy and read a lot on the internet. But, when I find something worth keeping, I copy and paste it on Microsoft Word to be printed. Then, in the appropriate binder it goes.

[aciera]

Jan 22, 2023 11:12:02 GMT -5 jeffh said:

Jan 22, 2023 11:04:28 GMT -5 aciera said:

When I say I had to move a ton of books folks don’t know I’m serious

I believe it!

When I moved (1988) I had half a large room full of books.  Hen my best friend moved a few years ago, he had a large, livable basement and started a "library," to which I donated four large boxes of gun-specific books.  I still have twice that many, still unpacked.

I have learned a lot though
Build boxes that can be moved with a forklift.
Not kidding.

[jeffh]

Jan 22, 2023 22:42:54 GMT -5 aciera said:

Jan 22, 2023 11:12:02 GMT -5 jeffh said:

I believe it!

When I moved (1988) I had half a large room full of books.  Hen my best friend moved a few years ago, he had a large, livable basement and started a "library," to which I donated four large boxes of gun-specific books.  I still have twice that many, still unpacked.

I have learned a lot though
Build boxes that can be moved with a forklift.
Not kidding.

NEVER fill 50 cal ammo cans with lead ingots in your thirties if you expect to move them in your sixties!

THAT's what I learned!

[potatojudge]

The forum declined with the booting of one prolific member who was a book of real world bullet performance and the rise to prominence of another who was pretty brusque, to put it nicely. But it still had good content, active, and was a great reference.

Lots of data lost. WV Hitman in particular had kill log that may never be beat short of nuclear war.

I hope some of it is replicated at Savage Shooters, but the issue is relatively little activity spread out over something like 7-8 sub forums there with no way now to refresh and show only new posts. Checking each sub is tedious. I think they'd have been better off with a SP sub and a SP classifieds sub rather than replicate the structure of the SP website.

I think most load data posted there is available elsewhere, but the real world low velocity/short barrel bullet performance on game will be hard to replace. The chronograph data for various barrel lengths is also a big loss.

[edk]

Jan 22, 2023 9:48:58 GMT -5 rabbit9146 said:

Damn. All that history and recorded knowledge lost.

Yes and no. Why I say that is because the site owner suggested everyone download as much as possible before the end of the year. Now this is the reasoning behind the "no" comment and why my previous sentence was not intended as an "I told you so":

For quite some time I could not find what I was looking for using the search feature. Then I noticed the search pulled up nothing prior to 2015. That forum was a hotbed of activity from 2005 until around 2012,2014 when it started to die and that is when all the meat & potatoes posts were made. Somewhere along the line most of the history was dumped. Over the past 5-7 years there wasn't much worth archiving other than the posts of a couple of individuals as Potatojudge mentioned.

It is a shame really. I wish I had archived more as the years passed by. I have a couple of categories of info that I squirreled away. One of which is a bunch of photos posted by stockmaker John Otter. There are still a couple of TC stockmakers working at it but IMHO nobody ever had the eye for aesthetics the way John did.