So I think there are two different components here that are under discussion:

1) Educational reference forum (chuck hawks type pages)

2) Equipment review forum (similar to item by item reviews for specific products)

My initial post was regarding item #2, BUT, I think there's value in adding "tactical stickies" for certain topics, which could 1) become their own sub-forum someday, 2) be held as stickies at the top of the small game, pred, trapping discussion, OR 3) within the new "equipment review and reference forum".

Regarding item 2, my vision was this:

The Small Game, Predator, and Trapping forum remains used for discussion as it is used today.

Within the SG,P, &T Forum, the "Equipment Review & Reference Forum", you would find a controlled list of topics, i.e. users can only respond to the existing threads/reviews, or add a new product (which would have to be properly arranged in the thread-stack for order). Discussion threads would get moved either to their specific product in question, or moved to the discussion forum.

These threads would be segmented by type of equipment: calls, decoys, scents, traps/trapping. Not as sub-forums, but only sorted in a certain order, maybe with a bold heading between them to designate the areas.

SO, this means the addition of ONE sub-forum that would be arranged like this:

Type of equipment:
Brand
Model
Model
Model

Brand
Model
Model
Model

Brand
Model
Model
Model

Type of equipment:
Brand
Model
Model
Model

Brand
Model
Model
Model

Brand
Model
Model
Model

And so on and so forth. Obviously, there's more than one way to skin that cat. If having this many threads for every specific model is cumbersome, then you could simply do it by brands, BUT, you lose certain abilities. Say I'm looking for a howler, comparing 3 different models. If everything is grouped by brand, I'd have to sift through Primos' cottontail and jackrabbit call reviews looking for reviews on the Hot Dogg Howler, and equally, I'd have to then go look through MAD Game Calls reviews to sift out the Cherry Howler out of the rest of their product reviews. Much faster to find the pertinent information I'm looking for as a user/consumer if they are separated so I can read reviews about each product, rather than grouped under an entire brand.

Here's an example:

Equipment Review Forum:

Electronic Calls (heading)----------------------------------
Flextone
Echo
Mimic

FoxPro
Spitfire
Wildfire
Hellfire
Firestorm
Fury
Shockwave
Prairie Blaster
Scorpion
CS24B

Johnny Stewart
Attractor
Bloodhound
Executioner
Gallows
Jury

Primos
Alpha Dogg
Boss Dogg
Turbo Dogg

Western Rivers

Hand Calls(heading)----------------------------------------
Buck Gardner

FoxPro/Dillon

Knight & Hale

MAD Game Calls

Mossback
Bounty Hunter
High Plains Drifter


Primos
Female Whimper
Hot Dogg
Lil' Dogg
Ki-Yi
Mini Howler
Randy Anderson Double Cottontail
Randy Anderson Double Jackrabbit
Randy Anderson Third Degree
Still Cottontail


Verminators
Alienator
Long Range Tweety
Thumper
Tweety
Twisted Syco
Stryker
Syco Tweety
Viper

Decoys(heading)-----------------------------------------
Edge
Hare Bawl Screamer
Joker
Quiver Kritter

FoxPro
FoxJack 1 & 2
BlackJack
Jack Attack

Mojo
Critter

Montana
Frantic Fawn
Miss Hoptober

Primos
Sit-N-Spin
Stray Cat
Wobblin' Whabbit
Wooly Bully

Scents(heading)------------------------------------------

Traps/Trapping(heading)-----------------------------------
Duke
Minnesota Trapline Products
Bridger

But that's just my thought, I don't run this joint...