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Figured out why my result wasn't showing up. The link for May goes to the April results. You have to go in and fix the address up top. Er, what link? Did I mess something up? When you click the May Contest report on your site, it takes you to April. We are having to replace the 4 in the URL box with 5. Got it. I'd not scrolled all the way down and checked that link, only the one above it. Thanks! |
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Cant believe these Dupe Bitches. Plenty of numbers left and some Brainless Butthead Dupes me. I wish the rules were just like real life, You Snooze You Loose. Hell, call it Texas Rules.
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It's working fine now
Someone duped me with almost 200 free numbers... Some numbers have 4-5 people on them already? What's wrong with these people |
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Hey - - I ownded page furty-nine
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I got duped twice and theres still 74 open numbers. is it really that freaking hard?
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ok i will admit how pathetic i really am. i have been refreshing the newest threads since 7 am waiting for the contest. last month i was on page 34 or some crap. "i will have my revenge in this life or the next" Hah...I just happened to remember it was the 1st so I jumped on the computer to enter my number - and got a free BCG Dearest cplewg –– Congrats Sir! However, you owe my two year old grand daughter a gazillion THANKS...my timing, for once was prefect, no one had posted a number and I was about to hit the send button when my little angel started hittin' keys and hung up the ole pc...by the time I recovered, my post was on page 2! Oh well, as I always says, "If it wasn't for bad luck, wouldn't have any!" |
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Mine got duped already too ... don't these people know about this report page? Word, same here. |
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ok i will admit how pathetic i really am. i have been refreshing the newest threads since 7 am waiting for the contest. last month i was on page 34 or some crap. "i will have my revenge in this life or the next" Hah...I just happened to remember it was the 1st so I jumped on the computer to enter my number - and got a free BCG Dearest cplewg –– Congrats Sir! However, you owe my two year old grand daughter a gazillion THANKS...my timing, for once was prefect, no one had posted a number and I was about to hit the send button when my little angel started hittin' keys and hung up the ole pc...by the time I recovered, my post was on page 2! Oh well, as I always says, "If it wasn't for bad luck, wouldn't have any!" " Hey Pap-pap, what's this key do ? " |
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Is it just me, or does it seem duping wasn't as bad when the contest was posted in the Larue board?
My # was duped twice. Thanks for doing this every month Mark! |
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It only took 50 pages to receive the DUPE kiss of death... Here's to hoping for a miracle...
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I got duped, and I don't care.
The guy who duped me has had a bad run of luck lately, and I am just glad to see him posting again. |
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That's right, it's already that time of the month again. FWIW, I mark the months of my life away with our .... "Until Hell Freezes Over" monthly drawing / giveaway. You folks that remember already know the rules ... the rest are on your own. Better enjoy this one, as a couple of " wrongly disgruntled Californians " have vowed to use their lack of reading comprehension skills to put all of Team LaRue out-of-business. So, this may in fact be the last ... Oh yeah - go. ML ETA - Nice work cplewg, for being fastest on the draw, you get a complete and free bolt carrier group. Copy this and email it to sales @ laruetactical.com. ETA 2 - Dang near 300 integers posted already ... nice to see good reading comprehension is alive and well. Whoa, make that over 1,000 in the first 24 hours. and since you're apparently not allowed to interject anything into the thread that isn't a number it would be damned hard for anybody to tell you. add to that 1000s of people and not a single one with enough time to IM the information to somebody that asked for it and it seems a fairly simple equation, no? not that it would help seeing as how posting for information is a disqualifying event. |
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That's right, it's already that time of the month again. FWIW, I mark the months of my life away with our .... "Until Hell Freezes Over" monthly drawing / giveaway. You folks that remember already know the rules ... the rest are on your own. Better enjoy this one, as a couple of " wrongly disgruntled Californians " have vowed to use their lack of reading comprehension skills to put all of Team LaRue out-of-business. So, this may in fact be the last ... Oh yeah - go. ML ETA - Nice work cplewg, for being fastest on the draw, you get a complete and free bolt carrier group. Copy this and email it to sales @ laruetactical.com. ETA 2 - Dang near 300 integers posted already ... nice to see good reading comprehension is alive and well. Whoa, make that over 1,000 in the first 24 hours. and since you're apparently not allowed to interject anything into the thread that isn't a number it would be damned hard for anybody to tell you. add to that 1000s of people and not a single one with enough time to IM the information to somebody that asked for it and it seems a fairly simple equation, no? not that it would help seeing as how posting for information is a disqualifying event. Now you know so just do it right next time |
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sorry for my dupe on 511 but i told myself when its my birthday month i'm picking my birthday :P. I hope I have the luck to win the 5 way draw >.<
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Is there anybody else who doesn't give a rats red ass if they're duped? I mean I could give 2 fuchs if I got duped! I'm just damn glad that I have the chance to pick a number and have the chance to win SOMETHING. Even if my number gets drawn and it's duped and I lose...I'm pretty damn sure LT is gonna make me feel like I won.
But hey I know that there are (apparently quite a few) folks out there that will bitch about just about everything. Don't get me wrong, what MND does is great, but I guarantee that I, personally, am not gonna look at his thread before I post. My number is 113 and I have been playing it every time I have played the LT contest. So why don't all of you folks quit bitching about getting your number picked by someone else and start thanking the man that GIVES AWAY OVER A GRAND EVERY MONTH. Just sayin.... |
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<snip> naaaa, i'm good. contests aren't my thing anyway, which i suppose is why i had no idea how this one worked. but i would like to ask mr. larue a favor. since i'm disqualified but it's clear that my number at least is a valid pick.......................if 243 magically comes up would you give the prize to a Green Beret team member friend of mine that's about to deploy to afghanistan again? ETA: he has otherwise not entered the contest and hasn't been on ARF in days Hmmm, there's a point here. In my laziness, not draggin' and droppin' the rules, some folks are left in the dark. My bad. I look up, and it's the 1st again ... what can I say. I'll do better. In the meantime, how many entrants slipped-up for lack of how the contest is run ? ML by my count there are 22 (including myself) that "didn't get the memo" 304 63 367 135 1000 332 43 65 35 258 163 665 687 384 772 547 040 037 667 186 352 + mine were all numbers picked in good faith and were disqualified by additional text which, i have to assume, was due to not knowing the rules. except mine of course, which was disqualified by text in addition to a double post asking what the hell was going on!! i figure if you're gonna do something, you might as well go all out now, it should have been apparent, in hindsight, to see that there was a pattern of numbers only in posts. however, i looked at page 1 and the last page only before i posted my number and simply figured that people were posting numbers only in an attempt to make it in before the contest end. wouldn't have mattered in my particular case anyway since my first post was #4 and didn't even know where the hell i was. certainly not a failure of your contest or how it's run but maybe a rule tack in your forum? i looked around everywhere current (but neglected to search or archive) and came up empty.................... |
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Dupe or no dupe, I'm grateful for the chance to enter this contest each month for the chance to finally own a firearm (I know the lower's not included).
My hope is that it'll go to someone like me who doesn't own an AR and not to someone who's already got a gun safe full of them. Mark, thank you again for your generosity and I wish good luck to all of us who've entered. |
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Dupe or no dupe, I'm grateful for the chance to enter this contest each month for the chance to finally own a firearm (I know the lower's not included). My hope is that it'll go to someone like me who doesn't own an AR and not to someone who's already got a gun safe full of them. Mark, thank you again for your generosity and I wish good luck to all of us who've entered. You Kentuck fellers got yerselves some groundhogs that need a lil' thinnin' ... so's I got my fingers crossed for ya. ETA - We're up to 1375 or so entrants in two days ... not bad. here's hopin' for 1,500+. |
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<snip> naaaa, i'm good. contests aren't my thing anyway, which i suppose is why i had no idea how this one worked. but i would like to ask mr. larue a favor. since i'm disqualified but it's clear that my number at least is a valid pick.......................if 243 magically comes up would you give the prize to a Green Beret team member friend of mine that's about to deploy to afghanistan again? ETA: he has otherwise not entered the contest and hasn't been on ARF in days Hmmm, there's a point here. In my laziness, not draggin' and droppin' the rules, some folks are left in the dark. My bad. I look up, and it's the 1st again ... what can I say. I'll do better. In the meantime, how many entrants slipped-up for lack of how the contest is run ? ML by my count there are 22 (including myself) that "didn't get the memo" 304 63 367 135 1000 332 43 65 35 258 163 665 687 384 772 547 040 037 667 186 352 + mine were all numbers picked in good faith and were disqualified by additional text which, i have to assume, was due to not knowing the rules. except mine of course, which was disqualified by text in addition to a double post asking what the hell was going on!! i figure if you're gonna do something, you might as well go all out now, it should have been apparent, in hindsight, to see that there was a pattern of numbers only in posts. however, i looked at page 1 and the last page only before i posted my number and simply figured that people were posting numbers only in an attempt to make it in before the contest end. wouldn't have mattered in my particular case anyway since my first post was #4 and didn't even know where the hell i was. certainly not a failure of your contest or how it's run but maybe a rule tack in your forum? i looked around everywhere current (but neglected to search or archive) and came up empty.................... mnd, you out there ? Seein' as how there might be a Californian or two in that there list, and seein' as how I done made some of 'em plenty mad enough without hardly tryin', better just go ahead and grant amnesty to the whole dang bunch. |
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<snip> naaaa, i'm good. contests aren't my thing anyway, which i suppose is why i had no idea how this one worked. but i would like to ask mr. larue a favor. since i'm disqualified but it's clear that my number at least is a valid pick.......................if 243 magically comes up would you give the prize to a Green Beret team member friend of mine that's about to deploy to afghanistan again? ETA: he has otherwise not entered the contest and hasn't been on ARF in days Hmmm, there's a point here. In my laziness, not draggin' and droppin' the rules, some folks are left in the dark. My bad. I look up, and it's the 1st again ... what can I say. I'll do better. In the meantime, how many entrants slipped-up for lack of how the contest is run ? ML by my count there are 22 (including myself) that "didn't get the memo" 304 63 367 135 1000 332 43 65 35 258 163 665 687 384 772 547 040 037 667 186 352 + mine were all numbers picked in good faith and were disqualified by additional text which, i have to assume, was due to not knowing the rules. except mine of course, which was disqualified by text in addition to a double post asking what the hell was going on!! i figure if you're gonna do something, you might as well go all out now, it should have been apparent, in hindsight, to see that there was a pattern of numbers only in posts. however, i looked at page 1 and the last page only before i posted my number and simply figured that people were posting numbers only in an attempt to make it in before the contest end. wouldn't have mattered in my particular case anyway since my first post was #4 and didn't even know where the hell i was. certainly not a failure of your contest or how it's run but maybe a rule tack in your forum? i looked around everywhere current (but neglected to search or archive) and came up empty.................... mnd, you out there ? Seein' as how there might be a Californian or two in that there list, and seein' as how I done made some of 'em plenty mad enough without hardly tryin', better just go ahead and grant amnesty to the whole dang bunch. well then you have certainly picked the appropriate smiley!!! sarah liked you so i figured you were a good guy but when you add up your charitable actions, leave nothing to the imagination opinions and general smartass attitude i do believe we'd either be damned good friends or we'd be so damned similar that a meeting between the two of us would end up in a hell of a fight |
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For the first time ever all the numbers are covered.
Mr. Larue thank you again for running this contest. You are at the top of my to buy from list. Thank you and God Bless you, your family, and all the people who work for you. |
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For the first time ever all the numbers are covered. Mr. Larue thank you again for running this contest. You are at the top of my to buy from list. Thank you and God Bless you, your family, and all the people who work for you. Jeeminy, how I hoped you were from California. All jokes aside, you are quite welcome, and thanks for your thoughts. M. LaRue |
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By the way, what's up with 717? Seven people picked it out of all the numbers? Is it something special? I would have thought more people would have picked 704 (July 4th) over that one. Am I overlooking its significance somehow, or is it just one of those things where lots of folks have that birthday? They can't all like Boeing 717s or live in Harrisburg, PA (area code 717), can they?
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Only the 3rd and only about 14 numbers open...and those only by default! AMAZING!! Thanks again Mark for the chance...slim though it might be... and I don't want to forget MND for keeping this report up and running!
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Seein' as how there might be a Californian or two in that there list, and seein' as how I done made some of 'em plenty mad enough without hardly tryin', better just go ahead and grant amnesty to the whole dang bunch. [/span] There's at least one Californian in that list....hoping to REPEAT |
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wow... forgot my Friday off was on the 1st - come in on Monday and have to dupe someone just to get in the game...
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Wow 2 days of hunting turkeys before i realized it was the beginning of the month and
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Quoted: Quoted: grant amnesty to the whole dang bunch. [/span] thats a touchy subject out here.... My .02... (which counts for nothing) This is my first time entering the contest. No one explained the rules, but I was aware (through basic observation) that there were infact rules, and that there are PLENTY of threads explaining the rules. So... I did a search. A gleaned from that info that you are to make ONE post, NO edits, containing three Integers, from 000 - 999, and that ML allowed (required? thought I read that... reading is fundamental) a smiley to accompany it. Font, Size, and Color mattered not. I found out that MND did this nifty statistics report that contained all the posts and numbers picked, and that it went down on the first of the month. I then looked at the approximate time of when ML posted his "GO" post, and was around my computer at that general time to get in before the numbers were picked. When I did find the "GO" post (not hard, as it is instantly the most active post in the entire website), I was able to use my intellect, and visit MND's statistics page, pick a number that WAS NOT PICKED, and made my single post, with 3 integers, large red font, and a smiley. Nothing less, nothing more. I found this information out in less than 5 minutes. My first entry, without having my hand held, went off without a hitch. It really is NOT that difficult. I dont think ignorance/stupidity is an excuse to circumvent the rules. And then have a rifle sent to you. But, its ML's contest, his rules... |
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grant amnesty to the whole dang bunch. [/span] thats a touchy subject out here.... My .02... (which counts for nothing) This is my first time entering the contest. No one explained the rules, but I was aware (through basic observation) that there were infact rules, and that there are PLENTY of threads explaining the rules. So... I did a search. A gleaned from that info that you are to make ONE post, NO edits, containing three Integers, from 000 - 999, and that ML allowed (required? thought I read that... reading is fundamental) a smiley to accompany it. Font, Size, and Color mattered not. I found out that MND did this nifty statistics report that contained all the posts and numbers picked, and that it went down on the first of the month. I then looked at the approximate time of when ML posted his "GO" post, and was around my computer at that general time to get in before the numbers were picked. When I did find the "GO" post (not hard, as it is instantly the most active post in the entire website), I was able to use my intellect, and visit MND's statistics page, pick a number that WAS NOT PICKED, and made my single post, with 3 integers, large red font, and a smiley. Nothing less, nothing more. I found this information out in less than 5 minutes. My first entry, without having my hand held, went off without a hitch. It really is NOT that difficult. I dont think ignorance/stupidity is an excuse to circumvent the rules. And then have a rifle sent to you. But, its ML's contest, his rules... ??? you quoted my post because why? It was a joke... about amnesty... for illegal aliens... |
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The man gives stuff away every month and has this many whiners??? I thought everyone was a bad ass Black Rifle commando.
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