The big Five-Oh

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

That's right, I turned 50 years old today. Here's hoping the next 50 are less difficult
and more profitable! Nope, not gonna happen with hobbies like boolit casting, fishing,
shooting and photography. Always broke but usually happy!
Thanks for being there the last few years I've been hanging around here, Learned lots
and lots more to learn!
Now- its time to get my Hermit merit badge, and my curmudgeon license :mrgreen:

[aspangler]

:violin: :kidding:Happy birthday to you. My 50 was a ..hm time ago. enjoy!

[FISH4BUGS]

.......ahhhhhhhhh....it's just another day...........

[s mac]

Happy Birthday Jim, I don't know the next 50 will be easier but it seems they go quicker all the time.

[MrWolf]

Congrats. Just be careful as for some reason time really flies now. I was cleaning basement yesterday and found a birthday card my daughter made for me at 44. That was over ten years ago. No idea where the time went.

[Hardcast416taylor]

I remember being 50.......several decades ago! I recall my Dad saying, "Son the first 100 years are the hardest - after that it`s all down hill". Welcome to the "over 49 Club"!Robert

[John Allen]

Congrats, I am heading that myself

[AggieEE]

Happy Birthday!! Mine was not that long ago but seems like yesterday.

[Bad Water Bill]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY youngster.

Wish I could remember that far back.

[Ed Barrett]

I'll be 73 next month. Get set for time to start moving faster.

[starnbar]

Man what I wouldn't give to be turning 50 again years have flown by for me I turned around twice and I was collecting SSI

[bob208]

oh to be 50 again.

[MT Gianni]

Happy Birthday, Jim. I've got 10+ on ya, time to make an appointment with the optometrist.

[Garyshome]

Old Gheezer!

[TXGunNut]

I'm a few yrs older than 50 but I feel pretty young this week. Went to a handicap trap shoot Saturday and an 84 yr young gentleman spanked damn near all of us. I was one of the younger shooters there, more than a few over 70.

[blackthorn]

Happy Birthday Kid!!!

[Bzcraig]

Happy 50th birthday!

[MaryB]

50 was a few years ago... every year from now on will hurt more and more when you get out of bed!

[Bad Water Bill]

[QUOTE=MaryB;2941970every year from now on will hurt more and more when you get out of bed![/QUOTE]

I enjoy the aches and pains AND being able to smell the roses.

[Ajax]

Happy Birthday Jim.

Andy

[sav300]

Happy Birthday Jim,

[marlin39a]

I was warned that you start to fall apart at 50. Well, I'm 58 and feel great. Stay active and eat well.

[CastingFool]

Hope you had a nice birthday. In a way, I wouldn't want to be 50 again, because that means I would have to work for a living. lol. I'm collecting that rocking chair money that had been promised to me, the money shows up on my financial statement right on time, it's the rocking chair I haven't seen yet!

[jonp]

Happy Birthday. I hit 50 last month. Im still trying to figure out where the last 30yrs went. Seems like yesterday i was standing in the door with full battle rattle strapped on waiting for the "Go" and buttslap from the Jumpmaster

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

Im still trying to figure out where the last 30yrs went.

yeah, me too.
The 3rd week of November this year, I will have lived in Montana for 30 years. Seems like yesterday we packed up and left Pa.
The only thing I wish I could change would be to have the brain I have now, when I was 16 and still had energy and all my body parts.

[Freightman]

Well happy birthday! I am wit Bad water wish I could remember 50:-? but the pain tells me every morning I am on the right side of the grass [smilie=w:

[Wayne Smith]

Happy Birthday, Jim. BTW, I've discovered the secret of having more money. It's becoming satisfied with what you have and using it to it's full potential rather than always adding new!

[dragonrider]

Happy B'day Jim. I was fifty once, too long ago to think about.

[DHurtig]

Don't think of it as being 50. Think of it as the 21st anniversary of your 29th birthday.

[buckwheatpaul]

Happy Birthday Kid! I can say that is because you are 13 years behind....hope you have a special day and that your wishes come true.....Paul

[waynem34]

Happty B day.I'm goneing to be roofing when i'm 50 lol.Lord willing and the creek dont rise.Happy birthday

[daniel lawecki]

Happy Birthday [smilie=w:

[yancey]

Happy Birthday Jim !

[MT Gianni]

50 was a few years ago... every year from now on will hurt more and more when you get out of bed!


A friend told me if you are over 50 and wake up with out any aches or pains you need to consider the possibility that you passed away in your sleep.

[facetious]

You should be getting a note from the doc any day now telling you it is time for your first colonoscopy.:(. A doc told me one time that he knew when ever some guy turned 50 because there wives would call and set them up for the most miserably invasive tests that thy had to offer.:groner::groner::groner:

[DLCTEX]

I remember when my grandfather turned 50. My five year old mind had trouble grasping how anyone could be half a hundred years old. 64 years later I understand how time accelerates as you age. Back then Christmases seemed so far apart as to be almost out of reach, one to the next. Now they seem to come too soon.

[Dave C.]

You know your getting old when one day you realize that all your shooting buddies are crippled, dead or in jail.

Dave C.

[FISH4BUGS]

I'll be 73 next month. Get set for time to start moving faster.

My mother, who at 89 is still sharp as a tack, and still has her sense of humor, says "...at my age I don't even buy ripe bananas any more".
That's really funny when you think about it.

[facetious]

You know your getting old when one day you realize that all your shooting buddies are crippled, dead or in jail.

Dave C.

I'm old! ?

I guess that is why I keep looking on here at night when I get home. There isn't any one left to talk gun stuff to who knows what thy are talking about.

[TXGunNut]

You know your getting old when one day you realize that all your shooting buddies are crippled, dead or in jail.

Dave C.

Shooting buddy is 70 and we generally shoot at least one gun that's older than either of us. Old is a relative thing.

[shoot-n-lead]

Been there, done that...and got the hat.

Happy BDay.

[Roosters]

Don’t worry to much about old age in most cases it doesn’t last that long. :kidding:

[alamogunr]

When I turned 50 I had two sons in graduate school and wasn't even thinking about retirement. I'm just glad I had the foresight to prepare for it. Now 22 years later both sons are established, we have grandchildren and so far no worries. I'm very lucky that health issues haven't surfaced, YET.

I don't know what to say to people who say they don't know what to do with themselves in retirement. There aren't enough hours in the day to do all I want to do.

Happy Birthday, Jim! The next 22 years will pass before you know it.

[375supermag]

hi...

I will turn 60 this November..God willing.

Have a couple of hunting trips scheduled in October, one for squirrels with my son and another with my son and a good friend for pheasants. Probably be another pheasant hunt around my birthday (Nov.6th).
Also looking at a grouse hunt in late Oct-early Nov.

Then bear season the Saturday before Thanksgiving and deer season the Monday after Thanksgiving.

This old(er) guy has a lot of miles in the great outdoors planned this Fall.

Doesn't seem to get any easier as I get older, but I have no plans to quit just yet, either. Grouse and pheasant hunts just require rest stops that I never had to bother with even 5 years ago.

Of course, a bout with cancer, having part of my left lung removed and two strokes in the last couple years might have something to do with that.