Pointing it out to you!!! Welcome TO THE 21st century

I never intended to ever put a website up as I am convinced that we are under enough scrutiny under normal circumstances and since most people are too intolerant to even try to understand what makes this sport great and rather focus on the brutality, I was hesitant. It took a bunch of malicious gossip to bring me out of my comfort zone and into the 21st Century. More on that in a future post.

However, I also feel that we must be as game as the roosters we show, so here we are…

As some of you all know, F B McGuinness has been a leader in gamefowl research for over 35 years. I am proud of our accomplishments in this field and feel we are a positive influence within our community.

With the demise of the leading Gamefowl Journals, The Gamecock, Grit and Steel, and The Feathered Warrior, we all lost a platform where buyers and sellers were as good as their word. We lost a way of calling out scammers and bullshit artists. Now these scammers move from site to site as their nefarious actions get reported, often changing their Facebook names and profiles. Some are actually living overseas and pretending to live in the US. They use payment methods like PayPal and Venmo to get our hard-earned dollars and send us nothing in return. Now don’t get me wrong, I too have used this same platform for hard-to-find goods, and I’ve been fairly lucky in this, but I’d be lying if I said I haven’t also been cheated. I immediately put out a post on the forum that I was cheated on to inform the community of the nature of my loss. Some might be embarrassed to admit this, but for the greater good of our community and if I can prevent just one person from being scammed, I can eat the loss to my wallet and the blow to my pride.

As we go through this new technology together, lets agree to focus on the positive aspects of our actions. It is in all of our interests to further this sport into the next generations and use the Golden Rule in all our endeavors.