Since I'm a late-comer to this forum, relatively, I don't know what happened between early member(s) and Joe Farmer to cause him to shun this forum. He seems to be one of the most valuable resources available today for many of our areas of interest with Krags. His Krag resource book is fantastic.

I have a friendly relationship with him and would not dream of violating that to try to get him back on this forum as an active, contributing member. That would be up to whoever or whatever caused the rift. I imagine he would decline, unfortunately.

But, why do we have people like Mr. Farmer who has potentially essential resources he has developed or discovered and we have to re-invent them because of some feud?

I'm sure I'll have some generic answer to this but there are probably other newer members and contributors to KCA who have wondered the same thing.

Sorry for bringing it up. Just wanted to say it out loud.