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SAFARI HUNTERS What Business are you in?
28 March 2005, 09:05
wyomingbenSAFARI HUNTERS What Business are you in?
Just wondering what other fellow posters do for a living....
WB
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...
28 March 2005, 10:49
NitroXI 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
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28 March 2005, 10:57
DB BillDean of Discipline at a school for bad girls.
DB Bill aka Bill George
28 March 2005, 12:07
RopesPower 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.
28 March 2005, 12:52
BwanaBobEx-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 I work for an international engineering consulting firm and hold the position of Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa.
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AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim.
28 March 2005, 13:36
RustyI'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.
CATMACHINC.COM28 March 2005, 14:26
Mike_DettorreDirector 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.
MikeLegistine actu quod scripsi?
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.
28 March 2005, 15:15
patrkyhntrRetired public school science teacher. Wife is also a retired teacher (elementary).
THE LUCKIEST HUNTER ALIVE!
28 March 2005, 16:37
Die Ou JagterI 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.
28 March 2005, 16:43
bull1Retired from thirty years in law enforcement. Now I paint houses & do odd jobs to support my hunting habit. Life is grand!
Bull1
28 March 2005, 16:47
trapntravHey DB Bill, just how bad are these girls?? and do you need any help!!!
28 March 2005, 16:49
Terry BlauwkampFor 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.
28 March 2005, 17:12
Widowmaker416I'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!!!
Widowmaker416
28 March 2005, 17:24
CunninghamI have a sign manufacturing business. I also book hunts for an african safari company.
Global Sportsmen Outfitters, LLC
Bob Cunningham
404-802-2500
28 March 2005, 17:50
Gringo CazadorI 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)
28 March 2005, 17:56
zimbabweRetired from 30+ years in Information Systems Management. School trained gunsmith (Trinidad).
SCI Life Member
NRA Patron Life Member
DRSS
28 March 2005, 17:59
SteveMarketing 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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www.zonedar.comIf you can't be a good example, be a horrible warningDRSS C&H 475 NE--------
28 March 2005, 18:06
jorge"Death From Above." Killing people and breaking things in pursuit of the national interest
Naval Aviation for 25 years, two more to go. Still have kids in college and can't afford to retire. jorge
USN (ret)
DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE
Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE
Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE
DSC Life Member
NRA Life Member
28 March 2005, 18:14
Aspen Hill AdventuresLaw 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
28 March 2005, 18:24
phurley5I 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.
Good shooting.
phurley
28 March 2005, 18:31
BALLBUSTERask my wife she says I'm just a no good hunting bum! Other than that a semi retired civil atty.
28 March 2005, 18:34
TrapperBobI 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
28 March 2005, 19:20
FjoldI 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
28 March 2005, 19:22
ibexebiI'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"
28 March 2005, 19:24
Wendell Reichquote:
Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
I would prefer to be a full time farmer.
Ah, life would be grand wouldn't it?
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!
28 March 2005, 19:29
HarryRanch 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.
28 March 2005, 19:49
MacD37Starting 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!
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!
....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1
DRSS Charter member
"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
28 March 2005, 19:53
ibexebiWendell,
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"
28 March 2005, 19:55
JohnTheGreekquote:
Originally posted by DB Bill:
Dean of Discipline at a school for bad girls.
I will send you my vita.
Best,
JohnTheGreek
28 March 2005, 19:56
dogcatquote:
Originally posted by DB Bill:
Dean of Discipline at a school for bad girls.
Do you have any openings for an assistant?
28 March 2005, 19:57
dogcatI drill oil and gas wells for a large independent energy company.
28 March 2005, 19:58
BFaucettSystems Administrator for a law firm (about 170 employees) in Houston, Texas.
-Bob F.
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.
28 March 2005, 20:29
Brad StarcevichDirector 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.org28 March 2005, 21:17
McCrayWe 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."
28 March 2005, 21:25
PWN375I am a solo practice attorney in a small town.
Perry
28 March 2005, 21:27
Bwana1Retired wholesale liquor distributor.Aint life grand?!
28 March 2005, 21:44
retreeverWell 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...
Mayor of Wyoming, Pa.DBBill you said last year ...you were retiring... 
Michael Podwika... DRSS bigbores and hunting
www.pvt.co.za " MAKE THE SHOT " 450#2 Famars
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