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I also need to get to be real good friends with LEDVM who posts here, I see that he is an equine surgeon, maybe someday trade him a hunt for saving Mojo my good horse!!

Anytime for you Mr. Atkinson!

I'm a Banker, I manage a large branch of one of the bigger banks in Canada.

I, like Dr. Easter, am a veterinary surgeon and have a mixed practice in the Texas panhandle. If Dr. Easters spare time is like mine he doesn't get to do as much "hunting, reloading, shooting, and fishing" as he would like to. Dr.C TAMU 1970. Gig'Em

Ain't been to Africa to hunt YET. Work for the Dept of Veterans Affairs to pay the bills. Trying to start a business to pay for the toys & hunting.

Another veterinarian - in a suburb of Dallas. TAMU 1990

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Originally posted by Steve:
I herd electrons.

Do you mean on horseback, like a cowboy? Then you are an electronboy!

Or do you use a trained border collie type dog, like a shepherd? The [also dropping one "e"] you must be an elctronherd!

Andrew McLaren

I am a piano player in a 2 bit whore house.

But at least I have my pride.

I own a resort, work for a company, fish, drink beer, and think of my next hunt.Then my next hunt,then my next hunt,its just never ending. Andrew McLaren, I leave for Anc, on Aug.18,will return sometime around Sept. 16. Going for moose,artic grizzly, then sheep and possibly mt.goat. Pm me, maybe we can meet up somewhere for a cold one.

I own a small mobility business and whack (cull) feral pigs and sheep as a "semi-pro" about 24 days during the summer on about 8 different trips. I am also the U.S. agent for Otjikoko Safaris in Namibia.

Geoff

I want surestrike's job...

As the name infers, I'm a professor, but only part-time now. Am a psychologist, but got burned out. Now work for the U.S. Army as Director, Strategic Initiatives Group (fancy name for a long-range planner).
I hunt as much as I can...which in Colorado is quite a bit if you include prairie dogs.

With 14 kids and 12 grandkids, I have to get out of the country once or twice a year to hunt. Unfortunately I have to take one of my brats along with me. I'm retired so I have been thinking about standing at a freeway entrance and holding up a sign:

HOPELESSLY ADDICTED
to Africa
PLEASE GIVE
any $100 bill will do.

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Originally posted by Steve:
I herd electrons.

Do you mean on horseback, like a cowboy? Then you are an electronboy!

Or do you use a trained border collie type dog, like a shepherd? The [also dropping one "e"] you must be an elctronherd!

Andrew McLaren

More like a electron-whisperer. You gotta persuade them to do your bidding.

I work for a local county. I own one car and one pick up truck. I still owe on a new Ford Focus I had to buy last fall when my ten year old Escort blew up during a mule deer hunt. My house might be paid for in two years if mother-in-law's medical expenses don't go up too far. In my spare time I hike the Olympic Mountains as much as I can. I take lots of photos and I enjoy walking and hunting with my dog-a slim black lab bitch named Sadie. She's a real go-getter and she amuses me immensely. I believe she likes me too.
I read a lot and I've read everything about Africa I could get my hands on. I also like Joseph Conrad and Kipling a lot. Capstick ain't bad. Karamojo Bell might be my favorite.
Once in awhile, when inspired, I write as well. Petersen's HUnting bought two stories from me, one about rabbit hunting, one about hunting black tailed deer in the Pacific Northwest rain forest. I self published a short novel about hunting NOrthern Minnesota. It's called "Partners" and I've had mixed reviews. I'm working on a second novel titled "Attorney HUnter" in which a dirt bag drug addict goes around randomly killing attorneys and all the local law officials are stumped. A Park Ranger finally puts the case together and he's quite a character but the novel is not done yet.. In between these things and paying bills I dream about RSA and mostly Gemsbok. Reality check: I'll never get there unless one of you guys wants to pay my way. I can pack, skin, track (to a point) and shoot varmints off your back as well as anybody. I can start a fire, cook like nobody's business, and tell good stories around the campfire. I can even hoist a beer or two or sip a bit of Scotch. Although I'm a slob I was a successful salesman for awhile and I learned all the social graces. I can fit in anywhere and it seems to me one of you rich cats would want me along for amusement if nothing else. Come on, aren't you curious how the "other half" lives? Take me to Africa and I'll show you. Oh, it would be really nice if my best buddy Stoney could go along. He's a hunting maniac.

Retired wholesale liquor distributor. Now, professional client...

Interpersonal dispute resolution specialist more commonly known as an attorney. However, I told my mother I tune pianos located in whore houses because she knows I can't carry a tune in a bucket. It keeps my in bullets to pursue my passion as a mammalian and avian serial killer and allows me to escape to Africa every year or so to regain my sanity.

Perry

Perry

I am a retired(recently) millwright, boilermaker,welder and pipefitter) at a local steel mill. Worked several years on the trans alaska pipeline(don't tell my mother--she thinks I was playing piano in a whorehouse too!) I make throwing knives-24 styles-and sell them to the blackpowder suppliers across this great country!(PLUG) Going to RSA again in three weeks-Mpumalanga- Can't hardley wait! I also collect antique african rifles, and am being prodded to do a book on these great old working guns of the bushveldt. Maybe------------ Best to you all, and to those who have never hunted Africa: Please find a way to do it---you won't ever be the same! Cheers, Luke

Hunt coyotes any time I can, anualy apply but don't draw any AZ hunt tags, shoot, reload and work. I am the Director of maintenance for a power and water utility company here in Phoenix, AZ. Typical corprate aviation job, it consums most of my life.
I booked a hunt to Tanzania then changed it to Namibia so I can take my wife and kids. We are going for my 40th B-day in July 2008. It will be our first trip to Africa.

Jakkals If you ever make it to AZ I can get you on the coyotes and elk in the same day. Just drop a line then drop in.

Will

Between hunts I eat what I killed (did real well last year with three antelope, a muley, three whitetails and a turkey. A couple geese, too.) I also spend a lot of time training my sons, niece and nephews to hunt, partly with an eye toward having them drag dead critters out of the woods for me. I have been able to manage an out-of-state or out-of-country hunt every year for the last 14 by living off the misfortune and dysfunction of others, which is to say that I am a district attorney, prosecuting everything from speeding tickets to homocides in my county. If it weren't for people doing stupid, dangerous or dishonest things, I'd have to go back to honest work.

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"Attorney HUnter" in which a dirt bag drug addict goes around randomly killing attorneys

As attorneys ourselves, Use Enough Gun and I can relate to the urge to get into that line of hunting. Call us if you need some insight.

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I still owe on a new Ford Focus I had to buy last fall when my ten year old Escort blew up during a mule deer hunt

Also, I've got to say, those are some rugged hunting rigs!

when i'm not hunting i'm taking a nap so i can go hunting.
in my past life i guided 5 western states and ole"mexico,now that i'm married i am a general contractor.the latest is a 5500 sq ft passive solar. i swing no hammer in sept!

Fortunately I live in Texas. I live to call predators and we can hunt hogs all year. When I am not out hunting, I like to spend time at the range and loading. To pay the bills, I am a manager for a health and life insurance company. My next trip to Africa is in the planning stages. Leopard is at the top of the list this trip..........

Bob

I spend a lot of time fixing or trying to figure out how to fix broken security access control stuff in a big hospital. I also work on CCTV cameras, and all the stuff between the cameras and the monitors that a bunch of retired police officers take turns siting and watching in a dark room that nobody can find. When nothing is broken I like to listen to entertainng war stories that they tell.

As others have said we can hunt hogs year round in Texas but the high summer temps take a lot of the fun out of it.

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One day.

Would love to hear a bugling Elk and calling a coyote.

Gerhard

There are about a half-dozen coyotes harmonizing out back while I'm typing!

In between, I'm dreaming about the previous trips to Africa and the next one.

Mon-Friday I design cochlear implants for the profoundly deaf and implantable spinal cord stimulators for people with inoperable pain. And show off my trophy photo's and tell the tales to anyone who walks by my office/cubicle and remarks on my screen-saver (which consists of random trophy photo's)

Dave

Most of the time I pass gas and push drugs. I try and keep you alive while the surgeon tries to kill you. I hunt whitetails in Texas, along with hogs and some waterfowl during the season. The rest of the time, I work hard, save money, invest, and hope to quit working one day.

Bwanna, Don't knock my Ford Escort until you hear about the Chevrolet Cavalier I owned previously. It was possibly the best hunting rig I've ever owned. It was paid for and it had front wheel drive. I drove that car all over the Olympics and Cascade Mountains. When ever I met guys in their big 4x4 pick up trucks they acted as if they were paralyzed and they always waited for me to pull over to the ditch. These guys have great big diesel trucks and they're afraid to get out of the ruts or to have brush scratch their doors. Hell, you might as well drive a Catalac and stay on pavement. Anyway, I stuffed a quartered out bull elk into the back of my Cavalier and a whole blacktailed buck deer. The deer had me worried since he would cool and stiffen before I got home. I wasn't sure I would get him out of the trunk but when I got home my wife handed me a hacksaw and I knew everything would be alright. Funny ain't it, fat cats in their $50,000 rigs are yielding to me in my commuter car? And I take home as much meat as they do. Not more, of course. Hell, that would start a whole new argument.