Howdy from UP of Michigan

[grampajoe]

Hi Y'all,
I found Muzzleloading Forum quite by accident while searching the web. Glad to have done so!
I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (on top of Wisconsin) in Ironwood. Been flintlocking for about a year now.
I'll be 68 in August, but feel like I'm 25 except for a few more aches and pains now and then.
I should be out shooting today, but wife is working part-time and she doesn't think I should be out on the range without her to watch over me. Good thing!
I'm semi-retired. Substitute teach at the high school 2-3 days a week. I once was a system analyst in Atlanta, but we both grew up here, so we moved back about 14 years ago. I was lucky to find a decent job programming an iinventory system, then became the director of our local public library. NOTE TO CLAUDE: I own an IMac G5 and a MacBook Pro. Typing this on the MBP.
I also am the author of a book, The Murder of Andrew Sigler. Not a runaway best seller, but it has done well locally. I'm working on another. Should be published (I hope) in the Fall.
And that's me!
Joe

 

[shmrck1]

Grampa Joe,
Welcome to the MLF, glad to have you
on board. Sounds like you have a full plate of
activities for a semi-retired person. Hope
you will share some of your knowledge with us.
I know where you are coming from about the
aches and pains. I am quickly approaching 61
and it seems a new one pops up way to often.
Visit often and contribute when you can.
Again welcome and stay active
I am snake-eyes :hatsoff:

 

[grampajoe]

Thanks, Snake Eyes. In about 1/2 hour I'll be heading out to the range for the 1st time this year. Without the wife! I have her permission. First I have to get some "honey do" chores over with.

 

[wszumera]

Hi Y'all,
I found Muzzleloading Forum quite by accident while searching the web. Glad to have done so!
I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (on top of Wisconsin) in Ironwood. Been flintlocking for about a year now.
I'll be 68 in August, but feel like I'm 25 except for a few more aches and pains now and then.
I should be out shooting today, but wife is working part-time and she doesn't think I should be out on the range without her to watch over me. Good thing!

First thing, Howdy from a troll beneath the bridge. You live in the bestest part of Michigan.

As far as shootin'. Unless they are about to throw sand over your face, you might as well go out and do what makes you happy. Take a cell phone with ya if the coverage works so she can check up on you and satisfy that mother hen thing wimmin tend to have.

Clutch
Kalkaska County

 

[Brawdhead]

Hi Y'all,
I found Muzzleloading Forum quite by accident while searching the web. Glad to have done so!
I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (on top of Wisconsin) in Ironwood. Been flintlocking for about a year now.

You might be interested to know this. . .

UPMLA is having a blackpowder shoot this Saturday (6/3) at Ottawa Sportsmens Club a few minutes west of Baraga. Last one for the year. 11am EDT.

This one will include a woods walk and probably a bunch of novelty targets. I think it's patched roundball only. Probably $3 entry fee and $3 for lunch.

Dan in Calumet

 

[Homesteader]

Hey there Grampa! I lived some of the best times of my life up in the UP, just south of Lake Superior on big Lake Manistique. Farnham's Point, if you know where that is. If I could've figured out how to make a living, I'd still be living there. (More's the pity.) Couldn't, so now I live way down South. (Y'know how y'all say summer is the one day you change your coat? Well down here winter is the one day we turn off our air conditioners.)

Welcome to the forum, if a relative newbie is alowed to write that. You'll find there are a lot of extremely knowledgable folk around here. (I'm not one of them, by the way.)