So does Smellie still post to forums?

mr.e moose

mr.e moose

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A few years ago our venerable member Smellie stopped posting here. Does anyone know of any other forum that he is still active on?
I miss his informative posts and the wealth of information that he used to provide. Around the same time many other members that were assets to this forum also stopped posting or did so infrequently.
While the best rifle for SHTF, bear defence or who's buying a t-81 may entertain some, the milsurp section has a void without people with knowledge contributing to it.
Spammers posting offensive material, and everyone trying to sh*t in everyone else's litter box seems to be the norm nowadays
 
I miss Smellie and his posts, great insight and depth of knowledge. Hope all is well with him and he returns.
 
I miss his comments as well. The milsurps section here has dried up a bit. Not nearly as many people posting/sharing, and not nearly the same amount of knowledge coming though. Looking at my feed, I haven't posted a thread on here in months, might have to do one in the next couple weeks.
 
Smelies's last post was 4 Jan, 2015.
Last activity Jan 2017.

I miss him too. Hope he is still alive and in control of his faculties.
 
I had the honor of sending back and forth a few PM's with Smellie many years ago, right when I joined CGN, when I bought my first Milsurp: a No5 Jungle Carbine where the serial number's corresponding year and year stamped couldn't have matched. (As an aside, a real No5 but unsure of the marking).

The patience and kindness to educate a true noob of the genre was heartwarming and kind. I miss him as well. If he were reading this I would thank him again and ask him to keep a warm smile on his face, because he had put many on mine. :redface:
 
It is funny how many people across Canada are interconnected through what their parents and their relatives have done.
Smellies Dad and my Mom worked together getting Aircobra's to Russia and Anson's and Harvard's for the Commonwealth air training program.
Many on here are descendants of the Greatest generation . People that would lay down their lives for what they thought was the right thing to do.

If you have information on our past please share it. It will at least not be lost.
 
I am a personal acquaintance and friend (I hope) of "smellie". I was at his house this summer. He is a walking library of history, military matters, military surplus facts, plus untold other subjects. Although I cannot say for sure, I think George just simply got fed up with some of the negative replies he was getting and thought it better (for him) if he just rode off into the sunset. I do recall a couple of the snarpy posts by some "expert" who was calling him out on an answer he had given. Likely the poster who was jumping on him was one of those rare folk who never make a mistake. They do exist, but I have never met a real one in my nearly 70 years.

Smellie is as kindhearted a person as I could ever hope to know, and thank him sincerely for all the help and encouragement he has given me.
 
mr.e moose said:
It is funny how many people across Canada are interconnected through what their parents and their relatives have done.
Smellies Dad and my Mom worked together getting Aircobra's to Russia and Anson's and Harvard's for the Commonwealth air training program.
Many on here are descendants of the Greatest generation . People that would lay down their lives for what they thought was the right thing to do.

If you have information on our past please share it. It will at least not be lost.
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I've had relatives that have fought in every European theater war, in one capacity or another for several centuries. Everything from the oppressed to the oppressors. History is a great thing. My war was in Africa.

All of the stories are similar in so many ways.

Some may believe that you're selling the present generation short with your statement mr e moose but I don't see it that way.

Every generation has issues some of them are willing to lay their lives/jobs on the line for. Not much has changed about the human spirit overall.

I believe Steamyteabag is now Smellie's connection with CGN. I agree, he was a tome of information and seemed like an all around nice fellow.
 
I do not try to sell any generation short, My daughter's husband puts his life on the line every day he goes to work and some days even when he is off.
Twostream is George's better half but I have not seen her post for awhile either.
 
Smellie was an asset, If I had a question about a milsurp he would have no problem giving me very detailed information. Its unfortunate that he is no longer posting.
 
I think that the point that I'm trying to make here is as the years go on, more and more knowledge is lost to us all. I have been collecting for 40 years ,but I cant even come close to the knowledge that each and every member of this forum has in each and every specialty that they collect.
 
The internet is slowly killing the true spirit of the hobby.
Sure we have now access to more information than we ever did... but at what price.
The goal of collecting milsurps is the preservation of history and this can only be truly be done by having those before us passing it along.
A web page or a forum is great to get a quick answer.... but it as no soul.
I never talked directly or indirectly to Smellie but i miss his knowledge.
I used to scroll down through posts, passing other posts, until i saw and read his replies first.
 
mr.e moose said:
I do not try to sell any generation short, My daughter's husband puts his life on the line every day he goes to work and some days even when he is off.
Twostream is George's better half but I have not seen her post for awhile either.
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Mr e moose, that statement I made seems to have come across the wrong way when I wrote "I don't see it that way" I should have written it some other way because I was agreeing with your assessment. Sincerely sorry for the confusion.
 
Smellie is alive and well.

Lots of us don't post much or at all on here cause there's afew bad apples that have ruined it.

Too many snide comments and too many attacks I guess.
 
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Tinman204 said:
Smellie is alive and well.

Lots of us don't post much or at all on here cause there's afew bad apples that have ruined it.

Too many snide comments and too many attacks I guess.
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Come back and appreciate the knowledge. that most of us got from him. One bad apple spoils everything.
 
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