My Grand father started me out at 10 years old with an old original Remington 36. I liked shooting so well I started making my own. When I was about 25 I started selling some I made about 5 years later I bought half of a archery and muzzleloading shop when business got to where we were swamped we hired a old German gunsmith who considered me an apprenticed and put my nose on the grind stone. When I was 64 my wife got cancer and I quit every thing else to take care of her but she died a year later anyway. Along the way I managed a couple of state championships and some places in national at Friendship, its been a good life now I am 72 and consider my self lucky to still be able to hunt and shoot. Lee