Woodgrain
Member
Greetings all,
I have been lurking on this site for a few years now and finally decided to join. Having grown up in pre-computer days I am constantly amazed by the opportunities available today via computers and the internet. An example is this forum where I can communicate with Smith & Wesson experts (both real and imagined)from all over the country while sitting in my underwear in the comfort of my home. For free!
I live on a 20 acre farm in central PA and am fortunate to have a small range where I can shoot whenever I can find the time and decent weather to do so. I bought my first Smith, a pinned, stainless .22 kit gun in 1978. I killed some squirrels with it, and got the bug for a longer barrel to reach out farther so I traded it for a new model 17-4. And so it has continued over the years...buying pistols for too much and selling for too little, but gradually accumulating some great S&W's made from 1955 to 2003. As many of us lament, I wish I could have kept them all, but I'm also thankful that I could keep as many as I have. As the price of ammo rises, I shoot mostly .22's these days, but I still love shooting them all. And I love seeing pictures of other people's handguns as well. I'm retired now, but in my former life I have been a competative motorcyclist, a museum preparator, a microbiologist, and a photographer.
My thanks to those who put in the time and effort so that this forum can exist. I have learned and continue to learn from it, and maybe now I can contribute to it as well.
Tom Wampler (Woodgrain)
I have been lurking on this site for a few years now and finally decided to join. Having grown up in pre-computer days I am constantly amazed by the opportunities available today via computers and the internet. An example is this forum where I can communicate with Smith & Wesson experts (both real and imagined)from all over the country while sitting in my underwear in the comfort of my home. For free!
I live on a 20 acre farm in central PA and am fortunate to have a small range where I can shoot whenever I can find the time and decent weather to do so. I bought my first Smith, a pinned, stainless .22 kit gun in 1978. I killed some squirrels with it, and got the bug for a longer barrel to reach out farther so I traded it for a new model 17-4. And so it has continued over the years...buying pistols for too much and selling for too little, but gradually accumulating some great S&W's made from 1955 to 2003. As many of us lament, I wish I could have kept them all, but I'm also thankful that I could keep as many as I have. As the price of ammo rises, I shoot mostly .22's these days, but I still love shooting them all. And I love seeing pictures of other people's handguns as well. I'm retired now, but in my former life I have been a competative motorcyclist, a museum preparator, a microbiologist, and a photographer.
My thanks to those who put in the time and effort so that this forum can exist. I have learned and continue to learn from it, and maybe now I can contribute to it as well.
Tom Wampler (Woodgrain)
