Honestly can't remember. I believe I just stumbled on it through Yahoo (it was before google). I joined an mainly hung out in the firearms sections as Tactical001 (I can't remember how far back that was, but it was a while ago). Then I stopped coming here for a while. Then I rejoined in 05 and lurked mostly on and off until last fall when I started posting more. Even then I stopped frequenting the forum all last spring/summer. I think I'm here to stay now, though