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Dave: Your question is wide open. What have your heard credible sources? Better still, post your concerns (?) on FCSA Members Only/Café. As you can tell from the age and infrequency of post on Biggerhammer, you're asking in the wrong forum.

As of 4:15 PM (Pacific) on Sat 1/9 the Members Only forum is up but again unable to post or reply. But... the Visitor's Forum appears (at least) back up. I did not enter (since I am not registered - as best I recall - and had no need).

Ah...now we can't edit posts, add new topics, or reply??? I just tried and there is no "activity" sensed to reveal the main text area and no feature menu displayed. I tried to flag the problem using the title field but when I hit "Post" it erred out, said I needed to provide a post (i.e., enter something in the now non-existent text area). BigDog or OldMan - please flag our webmaster. BTW, the Visitor's forum is still down.

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The Visitor's forum is still "down" or they need to relink from the main site home page. A related matter, I had communicated with the webmaster several months ago, when the main url started showing 1moa.org, asking when we could expect to get back to .fcsa.org. I was told that the 1moa.org was temporary, used for testing and interim use. Any word whether we are going to get back to fcsa.org? IMHO, 1moa could apply to tons of totally unrelated activities and seems hardly appropriate for the Association. Also posting this on the members only forum and stopping posting re FCSA here.

BD: Three weeks plus and ZIP. I contacted the FCSA office using their online contact form on 12/9 and received this on 12/10, "Hang in there Oscar there is light at the end of the tunnel. I can't give you an exact time frame but we are hoping to have the forum up and running soon. The problem has been pinpointed and it is just a matter of the technical details now. We appreciate your patience." At least the CalGuns forums are back up.

I forgot to mention that the entire CalGuns.net forum is now down for the 2nd or 3rd day. Conspiracy theorists jump in.

I figured I'd pull the subject content from the "M95 Accuracy" thread to give that guy a better chance of getting replies...and to focus FCSA types on this significant issue. Here is what I copied over: Big Dog on 24 Nov 2015 Have any of you been able to access the Members Forum on FCSA? I have sent a couple emails to the webmaster but received no replies. Karen (Secretary) did reply and indicated she relayed my error message (404) to Brett the webmaster. I've also volunteered to help as a Moderator and also offered my and my wife's assistance with the forum, but zero replies so far, going on a week. My wife is a DBA by profession and has a Masters in Computer Engineering and Programming. M95M on 25 Nov 2015 BD, same here but when I sent an email to the webmaster based on the 404 error code messsage I got a bounce back from the email server saying not a vaild address email address. They must have had a major server melt down. You could ask Oldman to talk to the frog and see what is going on. It sure would be nice to know one way or another. V/R Ed Big Dog on 26 Nov 2015 Ed, I spoke to Oldman and he has spoken to Brett the Webmaster. It appears the problem is with the hosting company and monetary issues as well as some software issues as well. I'm hoping Brett will call me (I've sent him my info through Karen. I believe it would not take a ton of effort to use readily available bulletin board software and add a few tweaks, and a new hosting company, and we could get the forum up and running rather quickly. My only concern, would be whether we could recover all the old posting and information. Losing that, would be quite bad, in my honest opinion. I'll offer to help moderate the forum if that is what it takes. I had a couple of my own forums that were aviation, and fishing/hunting related years ago and passed them on to good friends as I moved around the country following my job. I hope you and everyone else has a Wonderful Thanksgiving, Hopefully, the FCSA Member Forum can get rectified soon. Best Wishes, Jim dalbert on 26 Nov 2015 Jim, Feel free to direct others to this forum in the meantime. This forum at the Biggerhammer site pre-dates the FCSA forum, and for a while, it was the only .50 caiber forum on the internet. If things don't work out, I could even modify this one, or add an additional forum dedicated to FCSA. David Albert dalbert@sturmgewehr.com ***************************** A comment on Big Dog's first post in that (now this) thread - had me doing a double take when you mentioned your wife is a DBA. I first thought DBA = doing business as. Then I remembered from 20+ years ago and concluded you meant DBA = data base administrator (in those days typically related to mainframe computers, big iron). Is she now dealing with websites and HTML or XML or whatever the "big iron" world is now using? I have three websites, all super simple text-base with no forum (and no interest in adding one). I have multiple back-ups of all my content - on my PC, in a removable hard drive backed up daily, and on a second but only periodically backed up hard drive. I'm hoping FCSA has the same. Which means "we" could retrieve everything post by post but that would take a lot of hands and a very long time, not to mention temporary access. I suggest we start FCSA Forum threads here for the time being. By "here" I mean on David Albert's new Biggerhammer site, this forum (Barrett, Serbu & Other .50 Caliber Rifles Discussion Forum), using the title, "FCSA Temp: thread title", as I have done here. Best regards to all, God bless, and Happy Thankgiving! Oscar

shoots2soon: If you are starting to get more serious about shooting your .50, consider joining the Fifty Caliber Shooters Association (FCSA) - http://www.1moa.org/ They have a "Members Only" forum ...but you don't have to be a member to post on it (who knows why). You just need to register at http://members.fcsa.org/ Regrettably it is now "down" - very atypical. Good place to post your questions. There are some active members on that forum that shoot the M95.