packing.org survey results

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:01 pm

This is a pretty cool page of the results of packing.org surveys. Some interesting stuff if you haven't seen it before:

http://www.packing.org/survey/

Venus Pax · Post by **Venus Pax** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:29 pm

I remember seeing this before. Interesting.

longtooth · Post by **longtooth** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:24 pm

I voted in most of those poles before I found "home sweet home."

spud · Post by **spud** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:31 pm

ditto

KBCraig · Post by **KBCraig** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:09 pm

I still visit PDO almost daily, on those increasingly rare days when it's working.

I consider it a once-valuable resource that has rapidly gone downhill. I don't know why all the time and effort was put into programming the new forum, when many far superior forum software packages are available for free (and they have active support and development communities).

The sad thing is that there were many offers of help, and offers to either take over or to help manage the site. All of them went ignored. The only time Mark Solomon has made an appearance there in a year or more, was to reply to a question about who designed the background graphic.

I guess that graphic was really important, but the horribly broken rating system isn't.

The main pages are still a good source of reference, but the state pages are slipping out of date. The state moderators have mostly given up.

I also check the newsgroup tx.guns regularly, although the cross-posting has pretty much ruined it. I keep good filters set to keep out most of the rascist nonsense, which means there's not much traffic there for me to see.

Just makes me even happier to have a home here.

Kevin

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:15 am

One thing that surprised me was how young most people were when they started shooting. I started around 12 and that was practically old compared to many.

But it does imply that we've got to start 'em out young.

KBCraig · Post by **KBCraig** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:28 pm

Paladin wrote:One thing that surprised me was how young most people were when they started shooting. I started around 12 and that was practically old compared to many.

But it does imply that we've got to start 'em out young.

I started at 3.

My 3yo hasn't been shooting yet, but probably will before he turns 4.

Kevin

dws1117 · Post by **dws1117** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:16 am

KBCraig wrote:
Paladin wrote:One thing that surprised me was how young most people were when they started shooting. I started around 12 and that was practically old compared to many.

But it does imply that we've got to start 'em out young.
I started at 3.

My 3yo hasn't been shooting yet, but probably will before he turns 4.

Kevin

It seems to depend on each child and where they are in thier development.

My 4 year old isn't close to being ready to shoot. He's learned and can recite at will the Eddie the Eagle poem and he follows it when he see one of my guns that is not currently in my hand. But, his attention span isn't there for shooting.

anygunanywhere · Post by **anygunanywhere** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:51 am

dws1117 wrote:My 4 year old isn't close to being ready to shoot. He's learned and can recite at will the Eddie the Eagle poem and he follows it when he see one of my guns that is not currently in my hand. But, his attention span isn't there for shooting.

Maybe his attention span would lengthen if he had his hands wrapped around a Chipmonk .22 rimfire under dad's supervision!

Okay, maybe a Daisy BB gun.

My grandson is only 3 months old and I can hardly wait myself to take him shooting.

Anygun