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Pretty good NM-- we've been learned. It is pretty fascinating info-- thks. U know the part about Henry complcating the system so no one else could figure it out definitely worked-- it certainly took me a long time to figure out the mil system. What is your background in this?-- U certainly know a lot about it.
Mostly it's just been a lifetime of insatiable curiosity and an addiction to reading/learning.
I've enjoyed hunting and shooting since I was a kid and have hunted Kodiaks for livestock predation control, commercial Hair Seal (also around Kodiak), Wolves, Moose, Elk, Deer, and all sorts of small game/varmints in N. America, Sumatran Tiger in Indonesia (a maneater and "we" got him but not me), but my passion (insanity?) for a number of years now has been extreme accuracy shooting and ballists. I was blessed with very good eyesight and the ability of "stillness".
I guess I'm lucky that I don't have a wife or minor children or I might find myself commited to an institution, LOL. I can't wait to "infect" my grandson, I have already bought him a couple of guns. Do you think almost 3yrs old is too young to start him shooting?
I left home at 16 and have lived and worked all over the world, from Pruhoe Bay AK, to S.E.Asia, Europe, Africa (never hunted there though) as a commercial fisherman (king crab and halibut), ranch hand/cowboy (never could get the hang of roping), explosives engineer, commercial (deep sea) bell/saturation diver/supervisor, oilfield roughnek, A&P (airplane) mechanic, building contractor/designer, welder/machinist, and truck driver to name a few.
I was partner on a couple of trimarans and learned celestial navigation as a blue water (ocean) sailor long before GPS systems were available to civilians, when you had to do the math and use a sextant to navigate.
I have enough math/engineering college credits for a BS and a good ways towards an MS if I ever got interested enough to go back and take the prerequisite and specialized courses, but I don't like English or foreign language classes (though I learned German and Thai by living there and speaking them) and I can't stand liberals, especially academics. I'm 52yrs old so a higher degree wouldn't help me much in practical terms anyway. Won't stop me from taking the classes and learning the things I'm interested in though.
That's me in a (large) nutshell /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif. Now if I could just find a job that payed 6 figures, let me stay at home, and only required a few hours a week, I'd be in tall cotton. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif