lever4ever
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Can anyone please explain how the Karma/gifting idea started on the forum? This is a very nice idea. Also, what have people given away; what have you personally received? I'm just curious.
Lever4Ever
Lever4Ever
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bamabiker
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I don't know how it got started and I've never received anything, my luck. I have given away a S&W pocket knife and a couple of holsters that I made. Seen lots of other stuff given away.
Just a way to give back I guess.
Just a way to give back I guess.
truckemup97
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I think that's it exactly. I don't know how it started, and I don't think it originated with this forum, but I like it. I've won a couple and given a couple away.
BTW, anyone know where the zombie book is?
Bit of a white elephant, IMHO. Not a bad thing at all; it lets us move things to folks who will use and appreciate it, and hopefully does build up a few points in our favor with whomever is keeping track... 
I've won one or two and given away a few. It's wonderful and I hope the habit continues.
I've won one or two and given away a few. It's wonderful and I hope the habit continues.
29aholic
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As someone else posted it is kind of a way to "pay it forward", or a way to share good fortune I think. Most on here give themselves selfishly and most all appreciate the valuable info they receive or help in some cases. I try to make my Karma's meaningful with the respect to collecting so most of mine have been in the form of factory letters, a SCSW, or sponsorship in the SWCA. I have done several of each. I do not expect cudos or praise for what I have done but rather revel in the thought that I have passed the only true gifts...friendship and knowledge.
Sebago Son
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Along Time Ago There Was "The Reaper"....
Some of you new guys won't remember this.... but back in the bad old days before 9-11, before the Night of the Longknives, before the current administration's valiant efforts to keep this forum alive, and the tempestuous time when the post counter and incept date clock were reset and some of us lost 8,867 posts there was 'the old crew'... 230FMJ, LowrdrFXR, Smithnut, The Reaper, (later The Reaper, Reloaded), Dick Burg, BruceHMX, Victor Lewis, LBJ, Michael Stern and a few other stalwarts and insomniacs ... In those days you could log on a 2:30AM and have the boards to yourself...
Well... it all got started when someone pushed a broken down Datsun B-210 into the Kenai River and it was anointed. Two weeks later it was found, dragged from the muddy depths and with the first turn of the key it started right up.
In commemoration of that blessed event so long ago, someone offered up the first Karma. The tradition has been with us ever since...
Did I get that right Dick?
Drew
Some of you new guys won't remember this.... but back in the bad old days before 9-11, before the Night of the Longknives, before the current administration's valiant efforts to keep this forum alive, and the tempestuous time when the post counter and incept date clock were reset and some of us lost 8,867 posts there was 'the old crew'... 230FMJ, LowrdrFXR, Smithnut, The Reaper, (later The Reaper, Reloaded), Dick Burg, BruceHMX, Victor Lewis, LBJ, Michael Stern and a few other stalwarts and insomniacs ... In those days you could log on a 2:30AM and have the boards to yourself...
Well... it all got started when someone pushed a broken down Datsun B-210 into the Kenai River and it was anointed. Two weeks later it was found, dragged from the muddy depths and with the first turn of the key it started right up.
In commemoration of that blessed event so long ago, someone offered up the first Karma. The tradition has been with us ever since...
Did I get that right Dick?
Drew
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lever4ever
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rburg
Member
Wow. You dredge up memories. But you left off Dewey. He was one of the best.
I don't think anyone has all the parts of the story. We each only know a small bit or piece of it. And we did have a good time. We lost a few others. Who was the guy from west Texas, had a peach orchard out in the desert and loin cloths? Maybe a teacher in El Paso?
I don't think anyone has all the parts of the story. We each only know a small bit or piece of it. And we did have a good time. We lost a few others. Who was the guy from west Texas, had a peach orchard out in the desert and loin cloths? Maybe a teacher in El Paso?
I know who you mean, Dick. Some sort of Native American moniker... Cherokee something, maybe? QuarterCherokee! That was it!
Then there was the best karma ever: Some guy -- was it Caje? -- karma'ed off a rifle. Maybe a K98? Hard to top that.
Then there was the best karma ever: Some guy -- was it Caje? -- karma'ed off a rifle. Maybe a K98? Hard to top that.
rburg
Member
8800? That's chicken feed. I lost 14,400+ Probably a good thing. My employer probably wouldn't have been too charitable over me posting a part of that during working hours. But then he felt all of my hours were working hours, including nights and weekends.
I just wish I'd won the karma of the 1990 handguns annual (Guns and Ammo?) it was the reprint of Roy's 1989 RM article, with induced errors (I prefer to think of them as editing errors or typesetting errors.) Surely Roy wouldn't make mistakes, it had to be the clowns who printed it!
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