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SAFARI HUNTERS What Business are you in?
30 July 2006, 04:29
dougaboySAFARI HUNTERS What Business are you in?
I sell joints - the kind that replace worn out hips and knees.
Doug
30 July 2006, 04:57
White OwlI have worked as a shift supervisor at a large wastewater treatment plant for 31+ years. Top that! Going to RSA on my first safari next summer. You could say I'm primed to go!!!
30 July 2006, 05:28
rockhead70I am currently employed as a project manager and engineer for a large construction company. We build dams, roads, airports and such. Spent six weeks traveling in Zimbabwe and Mauritius about ten years ago, can’t wait to go back. I am planning my first safari to Africa next year, can’t wait. My dream is to be able to move to Africa and use my skills in construction to support my hunting habit.
I'm in my 27th year as a police officer, currently assigned as a school resource officer in a high school - best job I ever had!!!
I'm thinking about starting a business building cabinet doors and drawers to wholesale to cabinet shops (any info about this would be appreciated!).
Sugar Mama . . . er . . . wife is a successful real estate agent. She keeps me in hunting and hobby money.
JDS
And so if you meet a hunter who has been to Africa, and he tells you what he has seen and done, watch his eyes as he talks. For they will not see you. They will see sunrises and sunsets such as you cannot imagine, and a land and a way of life that is fast vanishing. And always he will will tell you how he plans to go back. (author: David Petzer)
30 July 2006, 11:06
martinbnsWhat an impressive array of careers.
I'm a Branch Manager for a large Canadian Bank.
I almosty answered this twice! I guess it´s dementia...
31 July 2006, 00:30
GunsCoreCPA/Investment Advisor/Gigilo
STAY IN THE FIGHT!
31 July 2006, 00:47
cowboykellReal cowboy...raise purebred red angus and red simmental on a cow/calf outfit homesteaded by my grandfather in western North Dakota. Hunted Zim. and RSA in 2004, planning on a return unless this damn drought eats up most of the calf check. Also a team roper that still has both thumbs after 30 years of catching heels.
31 July 2006, 01:26
SunshinePH/Forestry Scientist/Winemaker
HUNTING ONE HOUR FROM CAPE TOWN
31 July 2006, 07:28
Buffalo BobI was a supervisor for Rockwell Int. for 35 years. I have been retired for 6 years and still can't get enough of hunting and fishing.
31 July 2006, 08:26
thornellTool,die and mold maker.
31 July 2006, 20:45
Steve Malinverni21 years spent in I.T. environment. Actually Configuration Manager in a Mobile Telephone company
bye
Stefano
Waidmannsheil
31 July 2006, 21:00
Neil ALobbyist for the insurance industry, manage a national governmental affairs program for an insurance company trade association.
Not been to Africa yet but I will, 3 small kids and fishing/hunting around the US keep me busy for now.
01 August 2006, 00:07
Jaco HumanWas a senior manager at an insurance company till 1995. Started my own bussiness as a finacial adviser, also had a company fabricating structural steel. Turned my passion and love in a partime occupation after a visit by friends from the UK. Now I am pat time FA and part time ph/outfitter.
Cannot wait for the day I will just be hunting, My dream will come true.
Life is how you spend the time between hunting trips.
Through Responsible Sustainable hunting we serve Conservation.
Outfitter permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/73984
PH permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/81197
Jaco Human
SA Hunting Experience
jacohu@mweb.co.za
www.sahuntexp.com 01 August 2006, 08:06
bigdoggy700Senior bridge technician for Ill. Dept. of Transportation. Inspect and supervise bridge maintenance. I have been with I.D.O.T. for 15 years.
01 August 2006, 19:58
Nitro Express22 years commissioned service, U.S. Army. Basic branch was Military Police. Also served a tour on the faculty at West Point, and was in my additional specialty, Public Affairs, the last five years of my career. Made it to Lt. Colonel and retired in 1991.
Since 1991 (and for a few years prior) I have been in the real estate business in Atlanta. Worked for a company, owned my own franchise (never again!), managed new home sales, most recently--until the first of July--was managing broker for one of the largest franchises on the south side of Atlanta.
Currently "between jobs" and trying to change careers--applying for teaching positions. Or something. Recently married & we want to move west in 2-3 years, hopefully to Montana.
Been to Africa twice--first in 1996, to RSA with 2 of my sons, then in 2002 to Zimbabwe for the youngest's college graduate hunt for Cape buffalo. Would like to go back and show Africa to the bride but that doesn't appear likely anytime soon.
LTC, USA, RET
Benefactor Life Member, NRA
Member, SCI & DSC
Proud son of Texas A&M, Class of 1969
"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning
01 August 2006, 20:14
BaxterBFreelance writer. You can check out my latest project here.
http://homepage.mac.com/zagaya/book/index.htmlSome of you aviation guys may like the subject.
_Baxter
01 August 2006, 22:14
N'gagiDental/real estate/recently got a gig cutting radio commercial spots, and write a monthly column for a trade journal.
The last two are my super secret double low profile (wife doesn't know about them) pocket change.
Mark Jackson
01 August 2006, 22:25
Use Enough GunIs that "pocket change" being saved for another African hunt? (That she doesn't know about?) Or is it for another gun that she'll ask you about when she sees it? (i.e. How long have you had that? When did you buy that? Why did you buy that? Why do you need another gun? etc. etc.)
01 August 2006, 22:40
N'gagiTrophy fees. I have a double rifle at the GS. Some will probably go towards that too, but it'll take more than pocket change to finish THAT project.
Mark Jackson
01 August 2006, 22:44
Use Enough GunHey, who knows? Your radio gigs might make you very, very famous and then buying that double will just be pocket change.
02 August 2006, 00:01
gerrys375N'gagi:
Totally off topic -but I have to ask you out of real curiosity. That is one impressive buff! Details please. Width of horns, bosses? Where taken? (Weight, too, if you know it. He has to be well over 1500 lbs, surely?)
02 August 2006, 02:49
OldcoyoteRetired CPA. Presently manage investment in Florida land.
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02 August 2006, 13:09
SpartanAfter reading AR for a few months, finally managed to join in!! As of this Friday, I will end my career as a policy analyst with an Australian national parks and wildlife service, and soon begin the same job, only this time with a farm lobby group.
02 August 2006, 13:31
AussieMikequote:
Originally posted by Spartan:
After reading AR for a few months, finally managed to join in!! .
Welcome to the forum.
mike
02 August 2006, 15:56
SpartanThanks AussieMike - thought its about time I enlighten everyone with my opinions.
03 August 2006, 01:16
wihntrAssistant District Attorney for the last 14 years. Prior to that I fixed photocopiers, painted houses and worked in food service to pay for school. I certainly don't consider law a career-- just what I do to finance the important things in life, like hunting and feeding my family (which amounts to the same thing in good years!)
Information Services Supervisor for a manufacturing company.
03 August 2006, 18:16
pleandroSenior IT and Security consultant, systems engineer and Linux fanatic, working mainly in Mozambique and Portugal.
Big game hunting management and organization.
I was member of the Portuguese CIC delegation and of the Portuguese Big Game Hunters Association (CPM), but I no longer have patience for snobs and stiff-necked hunting intellectuals...
Hoping to move to MZ in the (very) near future.

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Sales. Fasteners, cutting tools, welding alloys, etc. to those who maintain capital equipment.
DRSS
NRA Life Member
VDD-GNA
04 August 2006, 08:39
S.K. SnyderUS Navy for 12 years, Law enforcement for the last 12. About 8 more years until I retire.
Snyder
04 August 2006, 12:20
Dr BI spent 15 years in the insurance business. I got tired of explaining simple financial conceps to snotty ignorant doctors, I figred if these bozoes could be doctors so could I, so I became one at 45 years old. Now I work ER's spending much of my time explaining simple medical thigs to a snotty sleepy specialist and surgeons that I woke up in the middle of the night.
I'm not complaining now I have plenty of free time to hunt, fish, shoot and raise my 4 year old Quadruplets 3 girls and 1 boy.
"Be carefull what you ask for you just might get it"
Dr B
21 August 2006, 07:52
CowboyI import and distribute interior buildiing materials from Asia.
Its been a hell of a party Woodrow
22 August 2006, 07:47
ClintSurgeon-in-training. Therefore, I will offer to AR members only a large discount on anything you need cut out/replaced/repaired/etc.
22 August 2006, 08:57
almostacowboyDesign engineer of implantable medical devices (spinal cord stimulators, cochlear implants)....which I hope to retire from next October (2007) at the ripe old age of 60. Then, take the wife and our horses to the Ozarks where I'll change my handle to something like "goatroper" or some such.
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."
-Thomas Paine, "American Crisis"
24 August 2006, 04:15
drdlongshotOwned a manufacturing company in Oklahoma for 22 years. Still have one in Mexico. Also have a sporting clays range in Oklahoma.
24 August 2006, 04:40
Jarrodquote:
Originally posted by drdlongshot:
Owned a manufacturing company in Oklahoma for 22 years. Still have one in Mexico. Also have a sporting clays range in Oklahoma.
What do you manfacture?
"Science only goes so far then God takes over."
24 August 2006, 07:50
huntnjimI get high for a living! 32 years building Communication Towers across this great country Owner since 1980.
25 August 2006, 01:55
FjoldManager Gas Turbine Maintenance for an independent power company,
I do this:
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
26 August 2006, 05:37
GDOGAmazing eclectic group!
I am a college failure, turned sales stud, now entrepreneur.
www.halogroup.us.