Outdoors with Don Q: Visit a great website known as Modern Sportsman

CARSON CITY, Nev. — If you are a sportsman or a sportswoman who hunts, fishes, camps, owns dogs, reloads ammo, cooks wild game, photographs, etc., you might want to take the time to visit www.modernsportsman.proboards.com.
About now, you're probably asking yourself, “What in the heck is this?
Well, to answer your question, www.modernsportsman.proboards.com is more commonly known to its members as “Modern Sportsman” or “MS.”
It is also one of my personal favorite locations on the entire Internet. 
The MS website is absolutely free, it is family-oriented at all times, and there are no strings attached to either visiting or becoming a member.
If you would like to join, all you have to do is go to there, select your own user name (mine is Don - Nevada) and provide your own password.
That's all there is to it.
Quick, easy and you'll find that being a member can be a ton of fun.
Geez, how can you beat that! 
Once you're at MS, just seek out a specific forum that is of interest to you, click on it, select a topic that you would like to comment on, and then join in on the dialogue.

Here are the various forums:
General:
Campfire: (the most popular forum) Where you can come on in, pull up a log, sit around the campfire, kick back and enjoy the company and all kinds of conversation with members from all over the world.
Classified: A place to buy, sell and trade items.
Tech Support: For technical questions and hopefully some correct answers.
Outdoors Woman’s Corner: A home for ladies and “seasonal wives” to meet and converse with one another.

Areas of interest:
Fishing: Whose gone fishing and how did they do.
Outdoor Cooking: What’s cooking and where to share favorite recipes.
Outdoor Photography: Where you can pick up all kinds of tips and tricks on getting that “just right” outdoor wildlife photo.

Guns and shooting:
Gunsmithing and reloading: Techniques, methods, tips and tricks on working on your firearms and reloading your own ammunition.
Muzzleloading and black powder: The world of the muzzleloader.
Rifle and Shotguns: And other long guns (excluding muzzleloaders).
Handguns: All about handguns and their related accessories. 
Second amendment and Politics: A place to talk about politics in general.
Shooting sports: Trap, Skeet, Sporting Clays and all other shooting sports.
Firearm appraisals: Find out what your collector firearm is worth.

Dogs:
Gun dogs and breeding: Recollections, stories, tips and information regarding dogs who hunt for the gun.
Training and trialing: The world of competitive sporting dog enthusiasts.
Hunting:
Upland bird and waterfowl: Quail, grouse, Chukar, etc.
Big game hunting: Deer, elk, moose, caribou, etc.
Archery and bow hunting: All about long bows, compound bows, re-curves, and cross bows.
Turkey: The place to “talk turkey.”
Small game: Small game hunting including varmint hunting.

Regional boards:
Canada: A forum for those who live in the “Great White North.”
North East: For those who live in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
South West: Arizona, New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas.
South East: For those in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Mid West: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
West: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Note:
The West Region is where yours truly has had the personal pleasure of serving as its Forum Moderator for a great number of years.

Miscellaneous:
Here is some information about www.modernsportsman.proboards.com that you might find to be interesting:

— The website originally began in 2001 as www.ModernSportsman.com.
— The top poster at MS is “Kady” and he has more than 25,000 posts! More than 25,000 posts! That is one heck of a lot of Cyber Chatting!
— Its Administrators include: “Sierra” (AKA Tom Rose of Mariposa, Calif.) and “TxYankee” (AKA Jerry Schroeder of Mineral Wells, Texas and “Big John” (AKA John Knight of Waverly, Ohio).

Finally:
ModernSportsman is a great way to spend an enjoyable morning, afternoon or evening (or any combination of the three!) visiting with and exchanging information with hunters and fishermen from all over the U.S. and other parts of the world.
And you can do it from the comfort of your home! 
Remember that address: www.ModernSportsman.proboard.com (AKA as the friendliest outdoor site on the web). You won't go wrong.

Bet Your Favorite Pigeon
Bet your favorite pigeon that he can't tell you about some of the folks who belong to ModernSportsman from the State of Nevada. 
If he grins and says, "Heck that's easy. Some of those folks include: Bill/Nv (Reno), Boomer (Fallon), Don - Nevada (Carson City) and Nate Smith (Reno) to name some," he wins this bet and could belong to MS.

— Writer Don Quilici is the Outdoor Editor for Carson Now. He can be reached at donquilici@hotmail.com.