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I started shooting when I was very young. My Father, who was in the Army in Ordnance had "range privileges" and got me shooting a 30.06 at the age of 5. I also got to shoot the "Ma Deuce" .50 caliber machine gun when I was 6! This started an addiction to anything that goes bang but especially the guns of John Moses Browning, and so I have been shooting and collecting 1911's and Hi Powers along with many other assorted firearms, for many years.

I built my first gun from scratch at the age of 10. It seems the local police had some issue with something called a "zipgun" and they took it away, but I never figured that one out! I also hunted big game and small game in Colorado when you could literally go out of your back door and shoot whatever you wanted. Repairing my own guns began at a very early age and then customizing for friends and family as time went on. I started to specialize in the 1911 and Hi Power just as my personal interest in these fine firearms and collection grew.

My background is in mechanical and electrical engineering as a discipline and I spent over 25 years working in large scale computer systems as a technical engineer and instructor. From a hobby standpoint, I have been building race cars, guns, amateur radio equipment and anything else that caught my fancy in the last 50+ years. I have been a certified Combat Pistol Instructor and also held a black belt in Tai Kwan Do at one point. Machining, finishing, building, painting, bending and welding - something has always been going on in the shop or garage since I was very young. I have over 15 years of assorted "trades" training that range from machining and tool making to auto body repair and motorcycle repair and customizing. All of this was at a young and reckless age before going back to school to make an honest living and wage in the high tech industry.

I pride myself on doing things the "old school" way. One gun at a time, one customer at a time. If there is not a fair amount of separation anxiety on my part as I pack a firearm to send back to the customer, then I have not put enough of myself into the gun. There is a little piece of me that goes out with every firearm that I work on. And most of them I want to keep. That is the way that it should be. I do as much of the work as I can by hand with hand tools but there are some things that just have to be done on a mill or a lathe, but each firearm that I build, repair or customize will have as much of the "hand built" element in it as I can manage. I will treat each and every firearm as my own.

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