Hello everyone from Northern Minnesota!

[John W Hughes]

I have been reading the forum for the last few years. My first rifle 16 years ago was a T/C .50 cal Scout and I now own both a .54 caliber T/C Hawken and a Renegade which I use for deer hunting.

I live in Northern Minnesota on the Gunflint Trail not far from Gunflint Lake which is a Canadian border lake and used extensively during the French and American Fur Trade era.

I have learned a lot already and plan on posting some questions in the future.I am interested in building a smooth bore trade gun either a Northwest or French. So far I haven't decided on which.

 

[PA.1740]

WELCOME :hatsoff: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have Fun
Phil

 

[smo]

Welcome GFG, I made a trip into the great white north several years ago. A little town called Ely, MN. Beautiful country up in that neck of the woods. :thumbsup:

 

[Spikebuck]

Welcome to the forum from one Minnesotan to another. A number of us frequent the forum...more that are closer to you, I think, than my end of the state. Have been to Ely and up and down the North Shore many times. Fantastic country! Some true wilderness areas.

Never forget a morning long ago when a friend and I launched a canoe just at daybreak in a lake in the Boundary waters and not far from Canada to scout and set bear baits since he had drawn a permit. We camped for three days (didn't sleep much with a canoe of meat scraps nearby and big bear tracks in our campsite when we arrived)!
Anyway...the morning was perfectly still as we glided through pristine waters that looked like glass. A light foggy mist was hanging over the water, loons were calling....it just does not get any better than that!

 

[Aran]

Welcome to the forum.

Enjoy :hatsoff:

Aran

 

[hmbeyer]

You live in a beautiful part of the state. I have been on the lakes & portages up there a number of times. The most memorable was with La Compagnie in a 20 ft. birchbark & a wooden bateau on a reenactment trip for 2 weeks back in the '80s. I built a NW trade gun about 30 years ago with parts from TOTW but I put the wrong lock on it (a Siler). I still use it for grouse hunting. Enjoy the Forum as much as I do.

 

[ny griz]

:thumbsup: Welcome,good ta have ya here.Griz

 

[mazo kid]

Welcome! Ever been to Grand Portage?

 

[John W Hughes]

Thanks for everyone's reply!

Grand Portage is about 80 miles away and I have been there quite a few times. Lake Superior is at it grandest in that area. Have been both to the monument and the rendezvous (never participated) a few times and historic Fort William in Thunder bay.