MPAG was incorporated in January, 1999, with the express purpose of providing the Michigan fireworks enthusiast an opportunity to share their love of energetic artistry with others of like mind.\u00a0 MPAG members share a common passion for the art, craft and science of fireworks.\u00a0 Our members come from all walks of life, and their specific pyrotechnic interests are as diverse as the members themselves.\u00a0 MPAG members include shell builders, professional shooters, package art collectors, pyro-choreographers, and people who just plain like to watch fireworks.\u00a0 With the vast array of members you are sure to find a match to your interest.\u00a0 MPAG also (typically!) publishes a newsletter quarterly and hosts this website for member interaction and shoot information.<\/p>\n
We meet approximately 6 times a year at locations throughout the state.\u00a0 We have been North to Clare, East to Sandusky, South to Mendon and West to Muskegon.\u00a0\u00a0 MPAG has a large group of builders that give their best to make things fly, and like most things in the pyro world, when they fly they are spectacular, and they can be pretty cool even when they don\u2019t!\u00a0 If that\u2019s not your thing, we have a growing contingent of consumer fireworks aficionado’s.\u00a0 They can tell you what year an Excalibur shell was made just by the sound of its lift.\u00a0 What their product lacks in size, they make up for in sheer volume.<\/p>\n
For our typical shoots, most of the board of directors arrive at the site around noon time.\u00a0 Site layout is determined at that time, and the setting of the lines (‘b’ for display products and ‘c’ for consumer products) follows.\u00a0 The ‘b’ line (1.3g commercial and club made products) firing line has all of its mortars buried.\u00a0 This gives us a little extra protection is case an item doesn\u2019t go as planned.\u00a0 The rocket folks have their own barricade, and work with the shell group to coordinate the loading and firing of their items.\u00a0 NOTE:\u00a0 Safety is number one<\/strong> and we have never had an injury that needed more than a Band-aid and kiss from mom.\u00a0 We require hard hats, safety glasses and hearing protection when dealing with the big guns (the ‘b’ line).<\/p>\n Our 1.4g (‘c’ line, consumer products) is a bit more relaxed.\u00a0 While still requiring safety glasses, we only recommend\u00a0 <\/em>a hard hat, as a clay plug to the head can hurt.\u00a0 The C guys can make you think you are inside the display in New York harbor!\u00a0 They bring it all:\u00a0 whistling bungholes, spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, h\u00fcsker d\u00fcs, h\u00fcsker don’ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, and bunches of whistling kitty chasers.\u00a0 Joe Dirt would be proud!<\/p>\n After the lines are set we hold a quick club meeting to discuss all that affects our group.\u00a0 After my quick speech, it\u2019s on to the auction.\u00a0 Club members bring all kinds of stuff out of the barn to sell for the benefit of the club.\u00a0 After our wallets are empty, it\u2019s on to fill our stomachs.\u00a0 We generally have a pot luck dinner with some of the best food you can find.\u00a0 We even have roasted a few pigs and top it off with homemade ice cream and pie.\u00a0 By the time we chat for a few minutes to let the food hit bottom, you will see some of the hardcore guys start to twitch and pace a bit.\u00a0 They wait until the permit opens and then its open season on the sky.\u00a0 We try to keep a good pace but this is no carpet bombing, each person can take the time their item needs and we even manage to fit in some actual choreographed shows from time to time.\u00a0 On more than a few occasions we run right up to our permit close time with some of the best consumer and professional fireworks you will ever see.<\/p>\n So if you are into the art of light and sound we are the group for you.\u00a0 We have youngsters lighting fountains and snakes, all the way up to 16 and 24\u201d shells for national competition…and everything in between.\u00a0 Feel free to contact any of the board members and attend a shoot in your area.<\/p>\n Enjoy our website and please, be careful with your passion.<\/p>\n Kevin Patterson MPAG was incorporated in January, 1999, with the express purpose of providing the Michigan fireworks enthusiast an opportunity to share their love of energetic artistry with others of like mind.\u00a0 Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpag.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpag.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpag.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpag.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpag.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mpag.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/mpag.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpag.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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