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Just wondering what other fellow posters do for a living....

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Posts: 27 | Location: WYOMING | Registered: 09 February 2005Reply With Quote
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I guess we are a pretty colorful bunch. I work as an MD/psychotherapist, writer and freelance journalist. We, my wife and I, also keep bees and have a small buisiness selling honey.

A wise man once told me to diversify...


http://www.tgsafari.co.za

"What doesn´t kill you makes you stranger!"
 
Posts: 2213 | Location: Finland | Registered: 02 May 2003Reply With Quote
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I am a qualified economist and also a CPA but grow wine grapes for sale, make, sell and drink wine for income and also have a sideline in hunting to pay for safaris Smiler.


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Posts: 10138 | Location: Wine Country, Barossa Valley, Australia | Registered: 06 March 2002Reply With Quote
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Dean of Discipline at a school for bad girls.


DB Bill aka Bill George
 
Posts: 4360 | Location: Sunny Southern California | Registered: 22 May 2002Reply With Quote
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Power plant operations and maintenance on the side I am starting a knife business. I have worked many other jobs from ranch hand to jet mechanic.
 
Posts: 549 | Location: Denial | Registered: 27 November 2004Reply With Quote
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Ex-Airforce aircrew but now trying to establish a multimedia business.


"White men with their ridiculous civilization lie far from me. No longer need I be a slave to money" (W.D.M Bell)
www.cybersafaris.com.au
 
Posts: 909 | Location: Blackheath, NSW, Australia | Registered: 26 May 2002Reply With Quote
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I work for an international engineering consulting firm and hold the position of Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa.


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Posts: 7046 | Location: Rambouillet, France | Registered: 25 June 2004Reply With Quote
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I'm a director for Post/Newsweek Houston, NBC Affiliate, KPRC-TV.

I, along with my two brothers, also own Charles A. Templeton Machine, in Odessa, Texas. We specialize in precision high speed gears and oilfield tools.
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Posts: 9797 | Location: Missouri City, Texas | Registered: 21 June 2000Reply With Quote
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Director in a medium size consulting firm. I specialize in IT Cost Management and specifically contract negotiations for large technology transactions.

Reserve Deputy Sheriff Alameda County Sheriff's Dept where I am pistol instructor and Use of Force Instructor

Do some independent consulting from time to time and just published my first book on telecommunications contracts.


Mike

Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.



What I have learned on AR, since 2001:
1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken.
2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps.
3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges.
4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down.
5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine.
6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle.
7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions.
8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA.
9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not.
10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact.
11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores.
12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence.
13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances.
 
Posts: 10144 | Location: Loving retirement in Boise, ID | Registered: 16 December 2003Reply With Quote
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Retired public school science teacher. Wife is also a retired teacher (elementary).


THE LUCKIEST HUNTER ALIVE!
 
Posts: 853 | Location: St. Thomas, Pennsylvania, USA | Registered: 08 January 2004Reply With Quote
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I am a CPA, senior ptr and have owned a mfg co. in the past and dable in real estate both rental and speculative. All of that so I may hunt. Smiler
 
Posts: 5338 | Location: Bedford, Pa. USA | Registered: 23 February 2002Reply With Quote
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Retired from thirty years in law enforcement. Now I paint houses & do odd jobs to support my hunting habit. Life is grand!

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Posts: 405 | Location: North Carolina, USA | Registered: 25 July 2004Reply With Quote
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Hey DB Bill, just how bad are these girls?? and do you need any help!!!
 
Posts: 256 | Location: Fort Nelson, BC, Canada | Registered: 04 February 2005Reply With Quote
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For a "living", I am in the Vegetable sales, distribution and storage business.
See www.superior-sales.com

For fun, I travel around going to Safari conventions, and go to Africa each year.


Remember, forgivness is easier to get than permission.
 
Posts: 3994 | Location: Hudsonville MI USA | Registered: 08 June 2000Reply With Quote
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I've been a full time taxidermist for over 30 years, I've owned my own business for 23 years. Photography and some free lance writing is also in the mix.





"America's Meat - - - SPAM"

As always, Good Hunting!!!

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Posts: 1782 | Location: New Jersey USA | Registered: 12 July 2004Reply With Quote
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I have a sign manufacturing business. I also book hunts for an african safari company.


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Posts: 580 | Location: I am neither for you or against you. I am completely the opposite. | Registered: 23 December 2004Reply With Quote
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I work for a large corporation, I sell industrial control systems and application software to the Refining, Oil & Gas and Chemical industry.


Billy,

High in the shoulder

(we band of bubbas)
 
Posts: 1868 | Location: League City, Texas | Registered: 11 April 2003Reply With Quote
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Retired from 30+ years in Information Systems Management. School trained gunsmith (Trinidad).


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Posts: 2786 | Location: Green Valley,Az | Registered: 04 January 2005Reply With Quote
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Marketing applications engineer for a semiconductor automated test equipment manufacturer. Wow, that's a mouthfull...

I tell people how to test computer chips and try to convince them to buy our equipment to do so.

-Steve


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Posts: 2781 | Location: Hillsboro, Or-Y-Gun (Oregon), U.S.A. | Registered: 22 June 2000Reply With Quote
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"Death From Above." Killing people and breaking things in pursuit of the national interest Smiler Naval Aviation for 25 years, two more to go. Still have kids in college and can't afford to retire. jorge


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Posts: 7149 | Location: Orange Park, Florida. USA | Registered: 22 March 2001Reply With Quote
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Law Enforcement for 19 years and counting, am a Latent Fingerprint Examiner and CSI. Booking agent with my own company and chicken farmer always doing battle with varmints wanting to eat my birds.

I would prefer to be a full time farmer.


~Ann





 
Posts: 19570 | Location: The LOST Nation | Registered: 27 March 2001Reply With Quote
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I sell America and have for 35 years. A Realtors day if never done, unless he is somewhere the phone cannot reach him. Thought I had it made in Africa until the Sat Phone of my outfitter rang. wave Good shooting.


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ask my wife she says I'm just a no good hunting bum! Other than that a semi retired civil atty.
 
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I own and operate a fishing vessel (alaska to south pacific) Used to be a steelhead guide and trapped before they took it from us here in washington
 
Posts: 129 | Location: Darrington Washington | Registered: 10 January 2005Reply With Quote
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I manage gas turbine maintenance and repairs for an independent power company. Ropes and I are in the same business.


Frank



"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953

NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite

 
Posts: 12726 | Location: Kentucky, USA | Registered: 30 December 2002Reply With Quote
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I've been cattle trash in one form or the other my whole life. I've been involved in every step from farm to fork.

currently the food safety director for a red meats processing facility.

mike


"Too lazy to work and too nervous to steal"
 
Posts: 201 | Location: Virginia | Registered: 25 August 2004Reply With Quote
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I would prefer to be a full time farmer.


Ah, life would be grand wouldn't it? Wink If you can figure out how to do this, please let me know.

I am a booking agent, this helps support my game ranching habit. However I am seeking an internship with DB Bill's operation! Big Grin
 
Posts: 6269 | Location: Dallas, TX | Registered: 13 July 2001Reply With Quote
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Ranch owner / operator. Own specialty hunting store in Dallas / Ft. Worth area. Book safaris in Namibia and sell lots of Tuffpak gun cases thanks to you kind folks.
According to my mother all I do is hunt or mess with guns.


You can borrow money but you can not borrow time. Go hunting with your family.
 
Posts: 1529 | Location: Texas | Registered: 15 December 2003Reply With Quote
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Starting in 1937, born on a North hill country Texas ranch belonging to my grandfather.
The next 15 0r so, years, did general cowboy work on the ranch, and hunted,trapped, and went to school unless I had hunting, or trapping to do! Wink

My father was a heavy equipment opperator, and started training me as soon as I could reach the cutter brakes on a Cat, After school,did a strech in the US Army! Found I like the bullets all going the same dirrection better, so went back to hunting and trapping, and working at construction. Did some welding, and became a machinest, and got my A&E, later A&P license, and went to work for American Airlines in 1965, in El Paso, Texas! Similtaniously half owner in a fine gun shop till the 1968 GCA, then quit the gun business.A little too much government for my taste! Retired from AA in 1996 with 31 yrs under my belt, with my last job being head of a BMAS tracking office at DFW!

The construction, and airline businesses, gave me the oppertunity to hunt several countries, and good pay,and the gun shop made it possible for me to own several fine double rifles,to hunt with.

Basicly, I'm a blue collar person, with black Tie tastes! Never made a great amount of money, but enough to do, basiclly, what I wanted to do! That was to hunt exotic places, and animals! Been there done that, and as the old mountain man once said:

"If I die today, I've missed little, for I've been to see the elephant!"

That's it, from birth, to ten days after death! beer


....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1
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"If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982

Hands of Old Elmer Keith

 
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Wendell,
Be careful what you wish for!! Bad girls are like buff hunting. Very expensive & addictive.

My lovely little bride points out that there is a correlation between her being a nice girl & me having enough shekels to pursue nyati.

Mike


"Too lazy to work and too nervous to steal"
 
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Dean of Discipline at a school for bad girls.


I will send you my vita. Big Grin

Best,

JohnTheGreek
 
Posts: 4697 | Location: North Africa and North America | Registered: 05 July 2001Reply With Quote
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Dean of Discipline at a school for bad girls.


Do you have any openings for an assistant?
 
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I drill oil and gas wells for a large independent energy company.
 
Posts: 10391 | Location: Texas... time to secede!! | Registered: 12 February 2004Reply With Quote
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Systems Administrator for a law firm (about 170 employees) in Houston, Texas.

-Bob F.
 
Posts: 3485 | Location: Houston, Texas | Registered: 22 February 2001Reply With Quote
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Engineer in field technical support for a VERY large multi-national tire company.

Hoping the wife in the banking business keeps getting promoted so I can retire early. Smiler
 
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Director of Research and Development for a 5 company group in Chicagoland. Invented the first biodegradable polymer from grain. Current research is at the opposite end of the spectrum - high strength composites. In addition to big game hunting, I am an organ builder and play classical piano. I'm blessed with a wife that supports me in all of my endeavors.
Best, Brad Starcevich
www.starcevich.org
 
Posts: 135 | Location: St. Charles, IL USA | Registered: 17 February 2005Reply With Quote
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We run a commercial cow/calf operation. I also do some machine work and welding, mostly aircraft and drag cars.

My wife is a city administrator.

No yard apes (nor want any) so we can afford to travel and hunt.


"There always seems to be a big market for making the clear, complex."
 
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I am a solo practice attorney in a small town.

Perry
 
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Retired wholesale liquor distributor.Aint life grand?!
 
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Well I am an elementary librarian...All my students know about Africa and its animals...
Work in 4 schools 2 per week and see 1400 students every two weeks...Been at it for 32 years and will go for 3 to 4 more... K to 6th grade... thumb

Mayor of Wyoming, Pa.

DBBill you said last year ...you were retiring... boohoo


Michael Podwika... DRSS bigbores and hunting www.pvt.co.za " MAKE THE SHOT " 450#2 Famars
 
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