well.. this is

[Elite@Last]

a lot better:rolleyes:

boy i tell you what.. this is the liviest bunch i've ever seen.. i think that's the way they want it

[BAArcher]

Why don't you define "They"...

Are you talking about those that set the forum guidelines?

Could it be the folks that want the info postings in the general section not highjacked with meaningless postings?

Last choice would be the few that actually said something as they grew too tired of seeing it happen?

[Elite@Last]

yep.........:rolleyes:

you forgot one

[Dave Nowlin]

Remember you aren't required to answer their questions. Especially when they are rendered in that certain tone. Just give name, rank, but don't give them your pin number. They might not be trustworthy.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

Capt. Blowhard reporting for duty.....:rolleyes:

[BenR]

Why don't you define "They"...

Are you talking about those that set the forum guidelines?

Could it be the folks that want the info postings in the general section not highjacked with meaningless postings?

Last choice would be the few that actually said something as they grew too tired of seeing it happen?

Hey, this is a happy place if you have nothing nice to say go away...or we may just through you out!

[Dave Nowlin]

It will be slow but this section will grow. Most archers I have met face to face are actually fun loving. We've simply been unlucky and met some of the other kind.:D
Dave Nowlin

[BenR]

Hey baaaaharcher...can you define "they"? The teachers pet...perhaps we can name baaaharcher the OBT of the elite forum...has a nice ring to it...

[Crackers]

You know I seen none of the smack and babble that you see on the other site the whole time I have been here...hence me posting a lot more but I come this morning and here it is. May be it was because AT was down and people had nothing to do so here was the only pot to stir

Dang I just babbled

[Elite@Last]

alright ben.... we gonna have to put you in a dunce cap???:D

[Dave Nowlin]

No, No. OBT hasn't done anything to deserve that. I've actually talked to him several times on the phone and he isn't really a bad guy. Maybe a little misguided but not bad.:D
Dave nowlin

[Elite@Last]

You know I seen none of the smack and babble that you see on the other site the whole time I have been here...hence me posting a lot more but I come this morning and here it is. May be it was because AT was down and people had nothing to do so here was the only pot to stir

Dang I just babbled


maybe it was just laundry day and the undies they had on were just a wee too tight

[Dave Nowlin]

Well my buddy Mikie is welcome here anytime. You can cut up all you want and actually enjoy yourself. Uptight is not allowed here.
Dave nowlin

[BenR]

I just find it funny that they have sent crackers and dave to the off topic forum...until they need a bit of info of course...I don't understand how they cannot see that genius comes with a bit of baggage....

[Dave Nowlin]

Mikie and I carry huge suitcases, well actually they are trunks.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

Man did I get kicked over here :eek: dang gone working and the whole place fell a part.....OK where's my tools

[Elite@Last]

yeah i think they lumped you in with us.... but didn't have the testicular fortitude to mention you're name....

[Dave Nowlin]

The Grinch is in charge over there and we aren't supposed to make him smile. The only problem is I'm not sure which wannabee is in charge.:D
Dave nowlin

[Crackers]

Does this joint have mods?

[BenR]

Well they sent baaaarcher in to our area so perhaps he is just a foot soldier....;)

[BenR]

Does this joint have mods?

I think I heard you are a mod...

[Elite@Last]

ive seen a couple... lorna, brad, kevin, jeff... the elite staff basically

[BAArcher]

Well they sent baaaarcher in to our area so perhaps he is just a foot soldier....;)

Hey Ben, Are you the same BenR from AT? 18 year old Highschool student?

[Dave Nowlin]

Yep. Most of them are Elite Staff and there is also Kelly Sexton. They have tried to run a casual ship here. Wanting everyone to be civil and kind to one another. You know what they say about best laid plans.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

Hey Ben, Are you the same BenR from AT? 18 year old Highschool student?

that's a big negative....nice trackin job though

[BenR]

Nope I am unassuming on AT....that 18 year old got my name before I joined...

[Crackers]

Well then that makes things easy...they are in charge and I haven't got any messages from them telling me I have been a bad boy

[Dave Nowlin]

There you go giving away personal info to funsuckers.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

mike i don't think you could be bad if ya tried....sorry you just seem too nice

[Dave Nowlin]

I wonder why they didn't demand of Mikie who he is on AT?:D
Dave Nowlin

[BenR]

Dave, the giants blew it tonight...I still have hope the pats will loose....

[Elite@Last]

yeah...... undefeated..not bad

[Crackers]

I would tell them if they asked.....Crackers is my alternate :eek: really, it's true

[Elite@Last]

nice try....lol

[BenR]

I think Mike is your alternate at this point:D

[Dave Nowlin]

Don't be giving it up without a fight. The funsuckers don't really have authority over you.:eek:
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

I can't believe Elite@Last doesn't believe me

[Elite@Last]

you're Crackers.... you probably hear Crackers in your sleep...lol

i shouldn't laugh... cause it probably does haunt your dreams huh..

[Dave Nowlin]

I guess the funsuckers went to bed with their screen up. I guess they're trying to intimidate us.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

nahhh.........

[Dave Nowlin]

You mean some of them are moving over there?
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

it's kinda ironic that some of the ones griping that they didn't want to wade through our babble are reading through it right now....:rolleyes:

[Crackers]

Did we have a "off topic" forum last night?

[Dave Nowlin]

Yeah I know. They really need to either get a life or join in. We don't bite. It's those other guys.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

Did we have a "off topic" forum last night?

yeah... but no one ever uses it.... at least we didn't...but we've been banished so here we are

[Dave Nowlin]

It's always been here but has primarily been used for serious non-archery stuff. There has been some humor over here and one game. It's mostly been semi-serious though. They suggested we should be over here, so here we are. It's really peaceful without the crying and all.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

Well to tell the truth I'm a newbie here and didn't realize there was something other then Gen pop. I just thought every thing was just normal and didn't see a problem with it. Heck it got me posting when it was something I didn't do much of any more

[Elite@Last]

cryin....lmao

[BenR]

You are far more witty than I would have thought, and I have even been in your shop....

[Elite@Last]

Well to tell the truth I'm a newbie here and didn't realize there was something other then Gen pop. I just thought every thing was just normal and didn't see a problem with it. Heck it got me posting when it was something I didn't do much of any more

my point exactly.... i know when someone made a thread about you or asking a question about you or you're work 9 outt 10 you'd answer.. but never saw much else...

which is why i was kinda apprehensive about asking you questions.. i figured you were tired of all the hounding and slinked off into the shadows to read a little and get a laugh now and then

[Dave Nowlin]

A fella is a little more inclined to post when among friends.:D
Dave nowlin

[Crackers]

You are far more witty than I would have thought, and I have even been in your shop....

ahh what

in my shop :eek:

you gots to be pulling my leg

[BenR]

Nope I was there and you worked on my bow...thanks, by the way....

[Dave Nowlin]

He's under pressure there. Here we're simply sitting in our Rocking Chairs and having a sip of coffee. No CR Mikie, you might fall off the porch.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

Now I'm puzzled. I did what any one would do at this point and checked your profile......shame on you it isn't filled out. That means you know I have no witt, I'm shy and have no phone skills

[Elite@Last]

ahh what

in my shop :eek:

you gots to be pulling my leg

yeah... he was the Yankee with the bad brooklyn accent...lmao

[BenR]

I stopped by this summer on my move out to Colorado from Brooklyn, you were nice enough to fix up the set a strings I bought from you for my synergy....

[Elite@Last]

Now I'm puzzled. I did what any one would do at this point and checked your profile......shame on you it isn't filled out. That means you know I have no witt, I'm shy and have no phone skills

see you do need a shop lackie...... take up your slack

[Crackers]

You walk in my shop and if you been there before I will remember your bow long before I remember your name.

[BenR]

Well I already sold the bow, so I guess we are strangers again...

[Crackers]

Now i remember...did they stay fixed?

[Dave Nowlin]

Mikie you didn't have to mention all your failings in one post. You should have made him get to know you better before spilling the beans.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

you and beans....i'd hate to be down wind of you dave... and from what i've read... mikes chins:D

[BenR]

Wrong guy, they were never broken...just figured since I was driving through I would have you work your magic...07 60lb synergy...black and green strings...bow worked out great...I just have a problem, that i need a new one about every 4 months...I need to learn to just keep one for at least a year...

[Elite@Last]

it helps to keep em a year...

[Dave Nowlin]

You don't keep one long enough to get aquainted. You'll never get to know all the little nuances in that short a time.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

looks like mike peetered out

[Dave Nowlin]

He'll be back. Where did you go? Changing diapers?:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

yes actually.... dang espn huh

[Dave Nowlin]

Did you wash both hands when you got through? You don't want to infect the keyboard. Repeat after me, "the keyboard is your friend.":D
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

I wasn't gone

BenR I didn't mean like they were broke I meant like did it stay good

[BenR]

Stayed great...it traveled all over the mountains with me this past season and shot great...

[Dave Nowlin]

Bennie, Mikie is asking you a question.:D
Dave nowlin

[Crackers]

Ah heck don't pay any attention to me, I don't

[Elite@Last]

that's what he said....

[Dave Nowlin]

Yeah, just pay Gale or you'll be sorry.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

That's why I can't come out and play very much, I have to pay Gale the honey do payments

[Dave Nowlin]

I told you guys Mikie was smart, he knows who controls what at his house and controls it when she tells him to.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

man i hate those..... honey do this.. honey do that.... honey ... honey ..:mad: all i say (to myself is dang it woman)

yes dear:p

[Crackers]

You learn these things when married for a life time

[Dave Nowlin]

Actually you learn these things or don't stay married for a lifetime.;)
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

i've done 6 years so far......long way to go:eek:

[Dave Nowlin]

You ain't even used to the institution yet.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

not to get off topic in the off topic forum:rolleyes: but...
how the heck is a 27year old an old fart????:confused: compared to dave i should be young stud...:rolleyes:

[Dave Nowlin]

Nah, you're just a young vapor.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

huh....vapor :rolleyes:

[Dave Nowlin]

Yeah when you are full strength, you can make folks stop in their tracks and say whew.
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

now that's funny

[Elite@Last]

Yeah when you are full strength, you can make folks stop in their tracks and say whew.
Dave Nowlin

dave's the peppe le' pew of old farts.....

[Dave Nowlin]

Yeah but sometime I believe I still don't know how to make women happy. You can stand on the porch and pee in the yard and they don't like it. You can stand in the yard and pee on the porch and they don't like that either.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

maybe it's just you??? :rolleyes:

[Dave Nowlin]

Nah, that can't be it.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

chick magnet huh.....

[Dave Nowlin]

In my younger days. Now I just follow the mother hen around and hold her shopping bags.
Dave Nowlin

[Scablands]

Yeah but sometime I believe I still don't know how to make women happy. You can stand on the porch and pee in the yard and they don't like it. You can stand in the yard and pee on the porch and they don't like that either.
Dave Nowlin

A friend once said to me that he didn't feel comfortable living in a place where you couldn't pee off your porch and I would definitely have to agree. ;)

[Scablands]

I was half watching, half listening to an episode of Jim Schocky's show the other day, showing some of the clips from last years shows, and one caught my ear. He was taking his dad hunting and his father said, " I took a half a Viagra pill ". Jim's response was " I don't want to hear about your Viagra ". His father said " I just take it so I don't pee on my shoes ". LMAO :p

[Dave Nowlin]

That seems a good enough reason.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

I was half watching, half listening to an episode of Jim Schocky's show the other day, showing some of the clips from last years shows, and one caught my ear. He was taking his dad hunting and his father said, " I took a half a Viagra pill ". Jim's response was " I don't want to hear about your Viagra ". His father said " I just take it so I don't pee on my shoes ". LMAO :p

where's my little guy rolling around on the floor, BRAD???

[Dave Nowlin]

I guess Brad must be assembling bows as he isn't assembling Emoticons.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

that's just as good i suppose

[Dave Nowlin]

Yeah, I suppose. When he gets caught up, some Emoticons would be good though.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

yeah..........

[Dave Nowlin]

Wonder where Mikie is.
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

Shh you'll wake him

[Dave Nowlin]

Why is he sawing logs?
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

No one was here a minute ago.

[Elite@Last]

yeah i was yackin at dave on the phone

[Crackers]

No wonder it was like forever

[Dave Nowlin]

Whatcha been doing Mikie?
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

yeah...... i do tend to yack..

[Dave Nowlin]

Not only that he talks too.
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

Had no choice except to answer PMs since you guys went into seclusion

[Crackers]

Well at least Kevin was nice enough to talk to me today

[Elite@Last]

Had no choice except to answer PMs since you guys went into seclusion

sent you another....:D

[Dave Nowlin]

And he said?
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

And he said?
Dave Nowlin


Nice things

[Elite@Last]

yeah.... i try. do unto others...

[Dave Nowlin]

Nice things like you are being set up as an Elite dealer?
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

ahh.... not me

[Crackers]

Just keep the fingers crossed

[Elite@Last]

i think the smart money goes on you gettin it...

[Dave Nowlin]

It would be the logical and right thing for him to get it.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

i'm not good with logic.....:rolleyes:

[Dave Nowlin]

I knew that but was hoping Elite is good with it.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

i'd say yes

[Dave Nowlin]

Mike would be a great asset for them.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

speaking of.... where did he run off to??

[Crackers]

Right behind you

[Dave Nowlin]

Don't know. I just received a PM from a guy needing help with an XL. He sent me his cell number, so I will contact him tommorrow.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

Right behind you

:eek: sneaky for an older fella huh

[Dave Nowlin]

Hey Mikie, what kinda mileage you get otta that little bike you're riddin?
Dave nowlin

[Crackers]

Well when your bouncing back and forth between 3 forums you have to be

[Dave Nowlin]

You have to be what?
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

i guess when a man's as busy as you are you always have to multi-task huh

[Crackers]

All night baby, just like the eveready bunny

I almost answered that a little different

[Crackers]

sneaky :D don't want them to hear you coming

[Dave Nowlin]

You still didn't give your mileage.
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

The sad part is that I'm here, there and every where and then it's to late to play my video game :(

[Crackers]

35 MPG Hiway

[Dave Nowlin]

You're getting to old for those things.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

i was actually bored into playing a video game today.... couldn't believe it ... even my wife was shocked

[Dave Nowlin]

I don't play them but my grandkids do.
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

Just getting to right age for these things. I raced professional MotoX for Penton which is now KTM for 4 years, last year was the year they became KTM. Raced in the very first Superbowl of MotoX in the LA coliseum in Ca.

[Elite@Last]

my wifes little brother does

[Elite@Last]

Just getting to right age for these things. I raced professional MotoX for Penton which is now KTM for 4 years, last year was the year they became KTM. Raced in the very first Superbowl of MotoX in the LA coliseum in Ca.

jack of all trades

[Crackers]

I build very high end computers just to game on. The only computer I have bought built already was the wifes lap top

[Dave Nowlin]

Your wife's little brother is a doe plural? That is a bad predicament.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

he's what they call a "gamer".......that's all he does.. play video games

[Crackers]

jack of all trades

Well I have done a few things.

I am a gunsmith but I only build Bench rifles for competition. I am a precious metal welder (aerospace certified), it helped growing up in fab/macine shop and a Journeyman brick layer.

[Elite@Last]

300 posts... ya like it here huh??

[Dave Nowlin]

Then after making a living at various things he decided to go broke in an archery shop.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

seems to be working out for him:rolleyes:

[Dave Nowlin]

Let him speak up about that.
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

I found enjoyment in most of what I have done but got bored at times so I tried new things. Welding and machining I started learning when I was 7 years old, rebuilding motorcycle and car engines when I was 12. At 15 I started building a T bucket from the ground up including the frame and finished it 2 months after my 16th birthday. I was a power plant engineer in the military but their wasn't any jobs available in that field when I got out (corp of engineer thing). Went to work for a company that built parts for the space shuttles and other satellites for a couple years and got fed up with California so moved back to my roots here in MO.

Went to work for my father who was a brick layer as a labor and after he came to the house one day and seen the brick dog house I built he put me in a improver program until I turned out. All this time I owned a fish market and bait and tackle shop and because of a few friends I sold a little archery equipment. Well my father passed away unexpected and I didn't feel like laying brick any more so I put a little more effort into the shop.

The gunsmithing thing I just got into for a hobby same as building computers.

Archery was doing better then the bait so I closed it and made the archery shop bigger and after the chain stores starting selling fish cheaper than I could I went full time in the archery business. This is the hardest I have had to work to make a living but now after nearly 25 years I won't trade it for less then a few mill where I wouldn't have to work ever again LOL

[Elite@Last]

sounds like a full life

[Crackers]

Not yet :D

[Dave Nowlin]

So to simplify what he just said. He decided to come to the house and ruin a perfectly good hobby by trying to make a living at it.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

hmmmm....i'm gonna open a shop eventually... just want to learn a little more

[Dave Nowlin]

And ruin your hobby.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

nahh i enjoyed it when i worked at the shop

[Dave Nowlin]

But you didn't depend on it for a living.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

i wont then either..... it's gonna be my side project... policing will always be my income. but on my days off. i'd like to have something to do i enjoy

and i don't know if i mentioned it but my wife's an accountant??

[Dave Nowlin]

I can understand that. I takes an accountant to handle a no accountant.:D
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

on that note.....i'm going to bed. night dave and mr Mike

[Dave Nowlin]

Don't let the bed bugs bite.
Dave Nowlin

[Crackers]

I started shooting a recurve in 69 and my first compound was a Allen that my stepfather bought me at the coast to coast store. After a couple months with it I found I didn't like the cheap hanger that the wheels attached to so I build new ones and I didn't like how sloppy the wheels were so I machined new ones and but bushings in them. That's when I first started working on bows, I was a problem child with not leaving any thing a lone. I took every thing a part and put it back together and of course some times it never worked again. My bother and I had a race car set and I didn't think my car was fast enough so I went to the library and read books on motor windings and took the mine a part and rewound the stater to make it faster, that's the reason I did the power plant thing in service

[Dave Nowlin]

My mother tells a story that I could take my bed apart and reassemble it when I was three years old. I guess I've been tinkering with things ever since.
Dave Nowlin

[Elite@Last]

i'm gonna start calling you

mike "the toolman"

like on home improvement...

[Dave Nowlin]

Mike did you work with copper. I've got one for you to work on right here. He calls himslf Elite@Last.
Dave Nowlin

[Jaben620]

Retro..........