Part of it I think has to do with the proliferation of forums and the amount of interest the webmaster has shown. Tuco's was always popular and Parallax Bill same way. I think the 'lease' on this board is up sometime early this year so you may see a request for money (not from me). Actually, this board stretched out longer than Keith Boell thought it would. A year or two before he died he figured it had another year or so. His concern was that he couldn't keep people interested despite all the great technical pages he put up on the K98 and other Mauser's.