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Post by Sandbur on Apr 26, 2021 4:54:17 GMT -6
Who has been around ever since and including the QDMA forum? How many years since it was shut down? I know Stu and I were arguing 25 years ago and we gave up on changing each other’s mind.
Foggy and Freeborn were there.
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Post by Reagan on Apr 26, 2021 5:04:29 GMT -6
I was on it but I don’t remember when I started. Maybe 10 -15 years ago? I bought my first place 18 years ago and I know it was after that.
I’ve learned a lot from you smart folks and argued with some of the dumb ones. Remember Bullwinkle and his caretaker? And of course the greatest of all time, NF.
Before the forums I knew nothing about apples, plots, TSI, shrubs, deer aging etc. I used to climb trees based on terrain and cover and hope for the best. I never checked wind direction prior to a hunt. The way thermals swirl in my hills, I’m not sure checking wind direction on some hunts matters much now.
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 26, 2021 5:18:22 GMT -6
I was on it but I don’t remember when I started. Maybe 10 -15 years ago? I bought my first place 18 years ago and I know it was after that. I’ve learned a lot from you smart folks and argued with some of the dumb ones. Remember Bullwinkle and his caretaker? And of course the greatest of all time, NF. Before the forums I knew nothing about apples, plots, TSI, shrubs, deer aging etc. I used to climb trees based on terrain and cover and hope for the best. I never checked wind direction prior to a hunt. The way thermals swirl in my hills, I’m not sure checking wind direction on some hunts matters much now. Were you Reagan in those days?
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 26, 2021 5:20:41 GMT -6
It seems that the forum was shut down when forum members began to know far more about habitat than the information QDMA was putting in their magazine.
There were also some heated discussions about the organizations action or lack of action on some issues.
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Post by daydreamer on Apr 26, 2021 5:24:50 GMT -6
Had to be 6-8 years ago since they shut that forum down? I was on there but didn’t add much as I wasn’t doing much habitat work then besides hardwood/conifer planting. Since then you guys have taught me the way of the fruit tree... I took some inventory over the weekend and I’ll update my thread later.
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Post by Reagan on Apr 26, 2021 5:26:05 GMT -6
Yep. The first forum I ever joined was around 1999 I had bought a lab to be my duck dog and I had never hunted ducks. In an anti Clinton move, I named my dog Reagan and signed up under the same handle. Been that on every forum since. Learned the basics of ducks by reading and killed 2 or 3 birds that season.
When the Q forum was melting down, someone messaged and invited me to the new home of misfits which I think was habitat talk before they got ban happy. I don’t remember who sent the invite.
I did more reading than talking on the Q.
It appears my first bow kill of a mature buck was 2007. So I was on the forum before then.
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Post by terrifictom on Apr 26, 2021 6:04:07 GMT -6
I think I joined the QDMA forum in 2003 if my memory is still working.
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Post by Tooln on Apr 26, 2021 6:04:41 GMT -6
I bought my 40 the fall of 2010 and joined the QDMA forum then. Stuck with it till it went South then a bunch of us went to Habitat Talk as it came to being because of the Q thing and it was more localised for us WI and MN guys. I got to know Foggy pretty good there and through Tractor by Net and a several others who went to HT from Q. HT started banning members and a bunch of us left and JT started a new forum. JT shut it down overnight after getting in a pissing thing with a member. We all ended up here and it grew into the best Damn forum there is for habitat, hunting and whatever we want to talk about. Many of you guys I have never met in person but feel like I've known you for years. There are even a few I'd consider brothers from another mother. I just looked at the list of members who joined here 1-26-2017 lots of names I've known from other forums. Got to give a big thanks to Lee for this place.
Edit I logged in to HT a place I haven't been in a long long time. I joined there 4-24-2014 and left sometime in 2018 IIRR.
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Post by badbrad on Apr 26, 2021 6:14:21 GMT -6
I was on the QDMA forum as well. Think my log-in name was BJE80. Probably was there a couple of years before it got shut down. I remember Stu answering some questions of mine, thinking that SD dude was weird and dipper and novermberforever was an ass.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 26, 2021 6:15:52 GMT -6
I’d guess it was 7-8 yrs ago, that they ended the forum.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 26, 2021 6:20:12 GMT -6
I was thinking about some of the guys from the Q forum the other day. One guy's handle was Early Riser, I think he was an older guy and always marked his posts/pics with some qualifier like "this can't be copied/reproduced without owner's consent". I think he got pissed off at some point and left the forum (early-mid 2000s maybe).
I've wondered if Ben Hooper ever joined any other forums. He was a pretty high powered engineer of some sort I think. I know he was involved with the Deepwater Horizon deal in some aspect. I learned a lot about apples from him.
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Post by Reagan on Apr 26, 2021 6:27:14 GMT -6
I forgot to mention Dipper on my asshole list. If the Q has been shut down that long, I must have joined when I bought my place in 03 or 04.
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Post by badbrad on Apr 26, 2021 6:27:18 GMT -6
Anyone hear from or talk to Jim Trout anymore? How is he doing?
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Post by Tooln on Apr 26, 2021 6:42:55 GMT -6
Anyone hear from or talk to Jim Trout anymore? How is he doing? I remember something about him trying to raise money for a dog. Don't remember details.
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Post by badbrad on Apr 26, 2021 6:49:09 GMT -6
Anyone hear from or talk to Jim Trout anymore? How is he doing? I remember something about him trying to raise money for a dog. Don't remember details. That was a few years back already. I think that was the final straw in him shutting down his forum.
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