we started the AR forum in 09 & that was after a long time of resisting doing it, as we simply were not convinced that there had been enough interest to warrant splitting them out into a separate forum. by then we were seeing a lot more people talking about them, created the forum & it's been going strong ever since.
the constant attacks on them, the insistence that they aren't good for hunting & can't be used for hunting just served to drive more people to try it & see for themselves. and as they did so, their friends who hunted with them saw how well they worked for it then they gave it a try & so on.
yes, there are still some old school types who refuse to get it but I think these are more the type who also would never have a synthetic stock on their hunting rifle either.
the constant attacks on them, the insistence that they aren't good for hunting & can't be used for hunting just served to drive more people to try it & see for themselves. and as they did so, their friends who hunted with them saw how well they worked for it then they gave it a try & so on.
yes, there are still some old school types who refuse to get it but I think these are more the type who also would never have a synthetic stock on their hunting rifle either.