Thanks for the reminder about the site Robin!!!  Long story short, my father put a smokepole in my hands as a child and been hooked ever since.  My father has been going to Friendship, CLA, Dixons, and the York Shoot for years and about 5 years ago I started tagging along for the York chunk event.  Up to that point I was pretty much a blackpowder hunter and did some freehand flintlock events but York opened my eyes.  I think it was the people and comradery that drew me in more than the shooting.  I had the privilege of shooting beside Paul a couple of years and he helped me assemble a Spidermatic of my own shortly before he passed.  I've met many of you around the York shoot and hope to get to more events in the future.  Since getting hooked, I've added a couple of bench guns and a light slug gun to my chunk collection (and I shoot them all equally bad), but I do love to get out and burn some powder.  Hope to see many more of you at events down the road.