what happened to the lastoftheplainsmen website

[Professor Marvel]

My Good Netizens -

can anyone elaborate, elucidate, pontificate, or further enlighten me as to the whereabouts or demise of
the Plainsman website?
               http://lastoftheplainsmen.freeforums.org/index.php

when I go there the cyber overlord claims it is not activated?
https://www.tapatalk.com/error?error=group_inactive&group=lastoftheplainsmen

yhs
prof marvel

[Mogorilla]

Hi Prof,
I lurked there quite a bit.  At one point, I seem to recall there being a discussion about few number of new posts, not a lot of visits, etc.   Then went back and got the same message you are seeing.  My bet is it is down due to dwindling numbers.

[Professor Marvel]

greetings mog-

have you any clue who the admin may have been?
it appears that a new system went into place ~ mid 2017 and if
the admin "does the thing" it may come back

yhs
pf mvl

[Mogorilla]

Brain hurts, cannot remember his name.  Will try and think of something else and it may come to me.  Sorry.  One of the main contributors was Shotgun Steve, he used to post here.   

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I have an even worse situation. My favorite reference on HUSQVARNA sporting arms just disappeared, from Sweden?

[Professor Marvel]

I have an even worse situation. My favorite reference on HUSQVARNA sporting arms just disappeared, from Sweden?

No, Sir C -
not a Husqy site!

try the wayback machine and see if you can get anything

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

yhs
prof marvel

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

It was;   www.skydevabben.com/allhvmodels/info.xml


I think this is it?  http://prodomain.info/whois/skydevaaben.com


P.S: There does not seem to be an archive. I sent a request for help to the webmaster for my favorite reference for Swedish military arms;  

http://www.gotavapen.se/index_eng2g.htm

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I got an answer from gotavapen. A great site for military firearms, generally, but particularly for Swedish military arms from the very beginning to the present. It also includes machine guns, tanks and FAIBAIRN KNIVES! There is also regimental histories going back to Gustavus Adolphus

They confirmed that skydevabben has closed, but no info on a sucessor.

I will try the only other site for Husqvarna shotguns;  http://www.shotguns.se/html/hva_in_general.html

[Crooked River Bob]

No offense to anyone, as this is a discussion board, but if you'll permit me, I'll try to nudge this gently back to the original topic...


I just "discovered " the Last of the Plainsmen website and forum a couple of years ago.  I don't post a lot, but I did submit a couple on topics that required a bit of research, and wouldn't you know, I did not keep notes...   

So, who needed the Last of the Plainsmen when we have this American Plainsmen Society board?  Well, all of us.  I thought it had a niche, and it augmented this forum rather than detracting from it.There was not really much traffic on the LOTP forum, but what was there was pretty good.  Lots of photos of old guns and gear, and it addressed the same topics and sadly-neglected time period as the sub-forum on which we are right now.  Some of those who posted had a wealth of information.


So, I would appreciate it if anybody could let us know what happened to The Last of the Plainsmen.  Rubbed out by hostiles?  Winterkill?  Left the mountains and plains and moved to Californy?  Boy howdy, if somebody could resurrect that site with all the old posts intact, it would make some of us real happy.  Might need to break out that keg of likker I have cached and hold a fandango or somethin'...

Crooked River Bob

[Oregon Bill]

Bob, is it just me, or are a lot of the forums dealing with 19th-century history, lifeways, firearms and activities on an ebb tide? Many of the forums here that were once robust with multiple daily posts have gone much quieter.
I sure am glad this forum is still here. I wander off for periods of time and then find myself grateful to come back and see familiar names and topics. Will try to post more often.
Just got active again on the Spencer Shooters forum, too ...

[Buffalo Creek Law Dog]

I got an answer from gotavapen. A great site for military firearms, generally, but particularly for Swedish military arms from the very beginning to the present. It also includes machine guns, tanks and FAIBAIRN KNIVES! There is also regimental histories going back to Gustavus Adolphus

They confirmed that skydevabben has closed, but no info on a sucessor.

I will try the only other site for Husqvarna shotguns;  http://www.shotguns.se/html/hva_in_general.html

I don't know why but, some of those Swedish terms you use remind me of Rose Nyland (Betty White) from the Golden Girls TV show.