ammo man was a spur of the moment thing. One of my other hobbies is reloading rifle ammo for customized rifles I build. Well, at least I did customize one rifle. And I did build a 1911 45acp pistol from scratch.
blanikdog, I don't think I have ever mentioned one of my other hobbies that turned into a sideline business. Teaching people to fly. In the USAF I was an electronic instructor, got out, got my degree, and started teaching school. Never even dreamed of flying until one day I discovered a little dirt strip had opened within a 1/2 mile of my house. Well, to make the story short, I earned my Private Pilot's certificate, Commercial, and Instrument rating, and Instructor's certificate, and started teaching people to fly. Then after about 8 years of teaching people to fly, I bought I couple of Cessna 150's and started a flight training school at the little dirt strip where I started flying.
Never did quit my day job, and after about 3 years of the flight training school, I gave it up. Too time consuming for the money involved, and I never had anytime for drinking, fishing, or anything but airplanes.
This is bragging I guess, but when I quit I had 50 active students (thank goodness they all did not decide to fly at once), another instructor hired, and 3 other airplanes leased. The big airport's training school had 8 students. Like I said I am bragging, but I am a professional teacher, and I do have a good line of bull ship. Sort of a likeable guy too.
Bert
