A Lincolns tale PLEASE read this first!

[Binners]

I remember reading and enjoying it, but was it really 12 years ago!

[micky2]

Wow 12 years ago, seems like 5 to me. l must be older than l thought.

[Garvin]

There is a cautionary tale here: the internet is not a permanent thing, however much we depend on it. So if you like something, SAVE IT!

The best defence we have against losing something valuable that's in a digital format is to have it scattered across a thousand hard drives and USB sticks, so if anyone needs it in future, someone will be willing and able to share it.

This was the thinking behind making Airgun Collector magazine free and digital-only. I'll certainly do what I can to make it available in my lifetime, and hopefully beyond, but if in 40 years somebody wants to read the 3 issues, when the authors and editor are long dead and buried, hopefully someone somewhere in the world will have a copy...

Hopefully the vintage airguns gallery will still be going in some way too.

[ccdjg]

There is a cautionary tale here: the internet is not a permanent thing, however much we depend on it. So if you like something, SAVE IT!

Couldn't agree more Danny. So much info' on the internet since I wrote the first edition of my book has disappeared. Luckily I have always downloaded anything new, so it will going into my second edition, firmly fixed as hard copy.

The worst perpetrators are the current manufacturers and retailers. These days new models come and go at a fast rate, and information about them is erased from the net just as rapidly. Unless you keep on downloading new info', or know owners, it can be almost impossible to get information about recently discontinued models.

Cheers,
John

[edbear2]

There is a cautionary tale here: the internet is not a permanent thing, however much we depend on it. So if you like something, SAVE IT!

The best defence we have against losing something valuable that's in a digital format is to have it scattered across a thousand hard drives and USB sticks, so if anyone needs it in future, someone will be willing and able to share it.

This was the thinking behind making Airgun Collector magazine free and digital-only. I'll certainly do what I can to make it available in my lifetime, and hopefully beyond, but if in 40 years somebody wants to read the 3 issues, when the authors and editor are long dead and buried, hopefully someone somewhere in the world will have a copy...

Hopefully the vintage airguns gallery will still be going in some way too.

Hi Danny.Strange thing is on a search of my posts with "Lincoln" as the main word, I get 30-40 results going back to 2008 with some either side of "The Lincolns Tale".

Even on the original search I did a post done on the same day a few mins before! (this thread we are reading).

And also as stated it was there a few months ago

ATB, Ed

[ptdunk]

There you go:

https://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread...Lincoln-s-tale

Page 13 in your ‘latest started threads’ page

I read this about 4 years ago and it changed the way I view the possible history of my vintage airguns.

Cheers,
Matt

[Garvin]

There you go:

https://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread...Lincoln-s-tale

Page 13 in your ‘latest started threads’ page

I read this about 4 years ago and it changed the way I view the possible history of my vintage airguns.

Cheers,
Matt

Well done, Matt!

Reads as well now as the first time I read it. Now preserved in the gallery...!

[edbear2]

There you go:

https://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread...Lincoln-s-tale

Page 13 in your ‘latest started threads’ page

I read this about 4 years ago and it changed the way I view the possible history of my vintage airguns.

Cheers,
Matt

Hi Matt, thank you so much mate, really appreciate you doing that for me

ATB, Ed

[ptdunk]

Hi Matt, thank you so much mate, really appreciate you doing that for me

ATB, Ed

No problem Ed,
glad it’s still on here.

Cheers,
Matt

[Josie & John]

I've just enjoyed reading that for a second time and enjoyed it just as much as the first. A splendid story Ed.

John