Quote Originally Posted by kidicarus13 View Post
Building personal relations through many face-to-face transactions and unaffiliated events has kept me coming back to COAR to discuss firearms, local/regional/national topics, and to share information. I tend to visit other national forums for the expert firearm opinions and product reviews. Although there are some very knowledgeable members on COAR, it's hard to compete with national forums with hundreds of thousands or millions of members.

My $.02
Agree 100%. I've made so many good friends and learned so much about the hobby through contacts made from the Trading Post, and we've all helped each other a great deal.