Hello from south Alabama

[jd411111]

Hi all! Just got into Black Powder shooting about two months ago. A friend gave me an old Traditions Ranger Hawken from the nineteys to display in a rustic room about six years ago. Got interested in shooting .22's back in the spring and thought I would give the muzzleloader a try. Anyway, now I'm hooked!

 

[jamesthomas]

Where abouts in South Alabama are you? I'm down around here South of Mobile,Al.

 

[jd411111]

Actually I'm more toward the eastern side of the state. About twenty miles north of Dothan. A little rural community called Echo.

 

[jamesthomas]

Echo!! I know exactly where you are!!. Do you do know of a town called Bertha? My older brother lives there and my father and my grandfolks on his side lived there. I have a BUNCH of kin folk (aunts uncles nieces etc.)that live around there. Do you know any Blankenships or Enfingers? My grandmother taught school in Echo and that's where my Dad went to school also. Your in some good deer hunting parts, lots of land to hunt on out there.

 

[jd411111]

Man it's a small world! My Mother was born and grew up in Bertha. I have a bunch of kin there too. Actually I play in a Bluegrass group and we have been playing for an annual pig roast some of the guys that grew up there put on every year.

 

[jamesthomas]

I was asking my Dad if he knew of any Rilys in Bertha and he said he had a teacher named Rily when he went to school in Echo. I will tell you sir, that you live in some beautiful country!!. When is that Bluegrass festival? I might be able to come to it and get in some hunting also.

 

[jd411111]

I'll send you an email and give you some details.

 

[Cowboy]

Welcome to the forum! Your in the right place. Very good folks here with decades of experience. If you have any questions you will get reliable accurate advice. Respectfully, cowboys1062.

 

[Maestro]

... I play in a Bluegrass group and we have been playing for an annual pig roast some of the guys that grew up there put on every year.

Welcome to the forum, Jimmy! Good to have a bluegrass picker here. (All the other members are only vent pickers.)

Bluegrass & Muzzleloaders... perfect together.

 

[wayne terry]

Welcome South AL. from North AL. enjoy the site, fiddlers and bluegrass convention starts here next week, big show, yall come.