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tyro

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I wonder why a topic like Birdshot for Home Defense is locked up just because it has been so popular a topic in the past. I tried searching that topic, as suggested by Erick, but all I got on the subject on the first page was the latest locked up thread. I never tire of reading threads which are of interest (no matter how much it may have been discussed in the past), but searching really is tiring when the search engine brings up so much that is not related and so little that is looked for. Sort of like looking for a needle in a haystack - an exaggeration of course.........
 
Erick,

That makes sense. However, I do hope you will allow popular and *important* old topics to become current again after *some* period of time, because newcomers are not likely to find much (if anything) by means of searching archives (I'm no longer a newcomer, but I find that is still true for me). There is so much to be read on the Internet that I bearly have time to read current postings, let alone tackle the frustrating challenge of trying to find a partular topic in the archives - which isn't as easy as it seems in theory or should be in practice. If there were not people interested in re-considering, or in the case of newcomers considering for the first time, a topic, then the thread would simply die for lack of fresh posting. The postings indicate interest, and for each person who posts, there are many, many, more of us who are interested in reading the postings. For any who are tired of, or disinterested in, such postings, it is far easier for them to simply skip the thread than for those of us who are interested in re-considering a topic to find old threads in the archives.

I do appreciate having a moderator to keep the forum free from inappropriate postings and topics. And I appreciate your response to my disappointment in having the Birdshot for Home Defense thread locked up.
 
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