I'm a chiropractor so IF you gotta spine, give me a call!
Wifey is insurance executive and a better shot, Damn!

Animal genetics, IVF bovine embryos, manager.
Previous that, manager for my country of one of the two biggest american credit cards
The rest just small things, one of them took me to Africa for several months
L

"full" time architect, part time - PH, international judge for tracking dogs (FCI), state instructor for training tracking dogs, ski instructor...so many things - so litle time - looking forward to switch sides on full and part time

I am the chief investigator for the Sheriff's Department in the county where I live in Southeast Georgia. I also command the Bloodhound Tracking and Recovery team. I have been in law enforcement for 22 years, but would much rather be in Africa somewhere. I hope to retire in two months and do just that.

Optometrist in small town in East Tennessee's Smoky Mountain area. No wives-no kids-no cats- no dogs so can hang taxidermy any where I well please. Made several posts to "Eye Glasses for Hunters" threads.

Enlisted as an aerial gunner on AC-130a 'Spectre' gunships in '84. Commissioned in '88 as a Security Forces (aka air base defense) officer. Currently a student at the Army War College with, perhaps, three years until I retire.

In civilain attire I'm GM of a computer firm in the midweast. In military uniform I'm a enlisted (E7) looking at mandatory retirement (24 yr.7 active balance NG) upon my return from Iraq as I will reach the age of 60.

Work as a logistic coordinator for an oil company. Have been mariner, soldier/recon squad leader/small arms instructor, construction worker, craneoperator......
Strictly blue collar guy.

Skipped school at 16 and joined the merchant marine as a deck hand and never looked back.
Divorced, grandpa, single, own sailboat, house, pickup truck and guns.
Still looking for that rich widow crazy enough to team up

I own and operate a gun shop in north Texas, full time. Part time police and concealed handgun instructor.

Chemical engineer with a large refiner. Thirty four years in process design and business development. Currently manage licensing and intellectual property. In the past have had part time businesses in farming (raising Belted Galloway cattle) and outdoor photography. Currently getting ready to retire, and may be forced into becoming a land developer in order to cash in real estate inheritance for my wife. Going to retire now, since two daughters from late in life are getting ready to exit college. One to pharmacy or medicine, the other to BioTech, after two years interning with FBI in Quantico.

Lead buyer for an international engineering and construction company specializing in buoys and FPSO's.

Clinic Rsearch Director for Johns Hopkins. Eight year with Infectious Disease Epidemiology and the last two years in Pediatrics.

This is a good read. We are a diverse group.

I am a general dentist and own a little commercial property.

Trained/studied as protected area manager/ecologist, worked at that and as safari guide.
Been whitewater bum and guide for the last 8 years around the world. Currently doing MSc in Canada, eyeing a PhD in SA as soon as I am done and a university job in enviro management related field at home or else where in Africa (or tourism related work in S. Africa).

Also done some freelance writing and photography for outdoor mags. Odd jobs like reptile parks, gun stores etc years ago...

All round Africa fanatic....

Born and raised in Kenya, went to school for hotel management. I worked in Nairobi for a while in the restaurant field before going to the coast and working for an exporter of aquarium fish. (just went diving everyday......)Immigrated to the states about 15 years ago. Now production manager and part owner of a medical device company which feeds my habits well! The greatest thing is hunting the selous and being able to speak swahili!

Airline Pilot First Officer on the MD 80 based at DFW.

I'm a professional passenger. Actually I'm a construction manager for a large corporation, but I spend more time flying around the country reviewing projects than I do on project sites.

I work for the US Gov't under the new moniker of Dept. of Homeland Security. And within that dept., I work in the CBP end of it... hence the reason I left Texas for Tucson,AZ.. Not by choice!! But hey, I get to hunt people for a living now!! And there's PLENTY of fun in that!!!

Was a guide and taxidermist for about 6 years. Got to work in South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada as well. Still do taxidermy as a side hobby and to compete in competitions, but miss both of them as a profession very much.
If I could make the money I do now and get to do taxidermy full time, I'd drop the Gov't gig in a heartbeat and beeline it back to Texas!

I'm with you in wishing I could get back to TX -- grew up in the Hill Country, now in SC in the ice cream manufacturing business -- we do custom, top-end products -- not many people willing to pay for it, and distributions a nightmare -- but I don't have to compromise on quality, and I like the work.

I spent close to 30 years as the outdoor editor and editorial board member of a large daily newspaper. Eighteen of those years I also was SCI's director of publications responsible for all phases of publishing Safari Magazine, Safari Times and the SCI record books. I sold also magazine articles and self-published maps for regional recreation sites. Since retiring in 1999, I've written nine books for/about Weatherby Award winners and one book about the history of SCI. Two more are in the works.

Bill Quimby

Director of Maintenace for a Power Utility companys flight department. We maintain a Bell 206B3, a Bell 212, a Citaition 560 Ultra and we are set to receive a Bell 427 in Dec.

Grew up a hog farmer. 6 years in the Marine Corps Air Wing. Father of two great kids with a wife I met in Australia. Life is good!!!

Guide/outfitter, outdoor writer, rancher.

Hey, why don't we all start our own AR country? We got folks to take care of all of our needs. Shoot, we could have one of the best militaries in the world, world-class healthcare and medical services, our own travel and booking agencies, utilities, farming, ranching, wine growing/making, master-planned communities, law enforcement and investigation, communications and mass media (our own biased views of the world), diplomatic relations, vet services, taxidermy services, customs brokers, government officials, a school system with teachers, professors, and educational administration, entertainment (that's all of you), legal services and even maybe a court system if we worked on it, a school of bad girls. . . . (interesting) For me? I practice the devil's craft like a few others on here. I'm a lawyer. SAEED, can you help us with securing a country of our OWN?

Professor of Weed Science

I am a machine shop and assembly supervisor for a lock manufacturing company. I have been in the business of managing people for the past twenty years or so. I have five wonderful children and a great wife. Bryan

I am a retired wildlife biologist that started as a conservation officer, then wildlife biologist, wildlife manager and finished as a wildlife research biologist. In that capacity I supervised research projects on the basic ecology of California bighorn sheep, developed a sightability model to estimate bighorn populations from aerial survey data, Canada goose researach and pheasant research. I then worked for a non-profit wildlife group for 5 years as a biologist. Now I am a professional elephant hunter that is fast going broke since I haven't figured out that you can't make any money by shooting non-exportable bulls and tuskless cows.

465H&H

Osteopath.....aches n pains n bones n shit

In my dreams I am all ways hunting, but in reality I am a certified public accountant (CPA).

Anybody want to guess?

I'll make this easy and save some typing by using my standard bio. -TONY

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Tony Mandile lives in Glendale, Ariz. with Ellen -- his wife of 45 years. He has wandered the waters and woods for more than 40 years in pursuit of game and fish. During that time, he has traveled around North America to fish or hunt in 40 states, 10 Canadian provinces, Africa, New Zealand and Mexico.

Mandile has been a full-time outdoor writer/photographer for 22 years and his 30-year active membership in the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) included three years on the board of directors. He helped form the Western Outdoor Writers (WOW) organization and served on the board, and he currently fills a board seat for the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA), which he helped organize in 2005. He also was a contributing editor for ARIZONA HUNTER & ANGLER magazine for 10 years, and spent nearly 7 years as a state Editor for OUTDOOR LIFE magazine. Mandile recently finished his first book project -- HOW TO HUNT COUES DEER -- with noted guide Duwane Adams. He's now working on book #2.

Mandile's articles and photos have appeared in OUTDOOR LIFE, FIELD & STREAM, PETERSEN'S HUNTING, PETERSEN'S FISHING, AMERICAN HUNTER (NRA), DEER HUNTING, ROCKY MOUNTAIN GAME & FISH, CALIFORNIA G&F, WASHINGTON-OREGON G & F, ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, NORTH AMERICAN HUNTER, PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER, ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPORTSMAN, WESTERN OUTDOORS, BOWHUNTING WORLD, SOUTHWEST SPORTSMAN, SAFARI, ARIZONA WILDLIFE VIEWS and a few dozen other outdoor, conservation and travel publications.

Additional writing and photo credits include books, posters, product packaging, print ads and even the photo on a MasterCard credit card. More than 100 magazine covers have carried his byline. His photos have also won numerous awards in the annual photo contest sponsored by the OWAA, and Nikon selected several to appear in the company's prestigious Outdoor Photographers Showcase.
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PS - Prior to or during part of the above, I also spent 10 years in the sporting goods (fishing/firearms) business, both in the retail and wholesale areas, and then another five years in the wholesale photo equipment industry. During the mid-1970s, I guided both fishermen and hunters in the San Juan Mts./Weminuche Wilderness Area near Durango, Co.

You might say I am in the trucking business in a way in that I run a division that makes components for all Major OE's for Class 8 and Medium trucks. Also, am the executive for our Mexico operations so I spend a lot of time there. Partners have a 50,000 acre ranch so there are certainly good fringes to that. Any of you guys in trucking as to fleets or dealerships, contact me.

Diverse Group we are.

Fly Fishing Guide, Substitute School Teacher, Student

general machinist.....welding......and gun sales. and chef by night at our local steak house.

I am a Booking agent which supports my two other bad habits. Hunting and game ranching.

I have just finished reading through the entire 5 pages of this thread and it has been fascinating to read that I was in such good company of fellow hunters for my one and only trip to Africa! I wish that somebody could get all your posts together and have it shown to the world (influenced by mass media in the US) that we are not all knuckledragging cretins because we hunt.

I was much relieved to find such fellow hunting addicts among lawyer types like BALLBUSTER, PG, mufasa and PWN375. ( Retired insurance company trial lawyer here - architect/engineer malpractice defense attorney in the last 25 years or so of a 45 year career in tort defense trial work) My PH got sadistic pleasure out of telling me all the lawyer jokes from the UK - some of them new, I admit - but I still wondered why I came 8000 miles to hear lawyer jokes!

I am a consultant geophysicist in the oil and gas industry. I plan to retire at the end of the year and become a full-time visual artist, musician and poet. Like Elmo, I live in a cow pasture, and I shoot gophers from my living room window.

This is a great thread. We had a similar one 2-3 years ago.I am an ear.nose doctor in Atlanta. In Africa 3 times(Maakalan Safaris and Chris Collins in Botswana), Kenya and Tanzania on vacation. Am trying hard to get to Tanzania for nyati before I get where I cant walk. I have been out of med school 48 years. I read AR almost every day but post infrequently. I guess I will never be "one of us" I have a cz550 completely redone by Roger Farrell(416 Rigby)and way too many other guns.Have been a reloader for 55 years.

Building Contractor and real estate developer in southwest colorado.

Use enough gun...
That´s one of the best idees I have seen for a long time.....our own AR country

One of my requirements is that there must be a shoreline...can´t live far from the sea you see

Fantastic thread! I'm a retired public health entomologist. I ran mosquito and black fly control programs, dealt with rats and ticks and other vermin. Still do a little work on the private side. Death and pestilence made me a good living.

ER physician, photographer, farm owner, flight instructor.