Thanks for the contact. Olive branch accepted. I too spend a fair amount of time in the outdoors. I'm an Eagle scout, which was agreat start into the great outdoors. I have a bachelors degree in Outdoor Recreation Education and did the course work on a Masters in Applied Psychology. Because of my survival teaching experience in the AF I occasionally teach Survival seminars and taught a survival course one year at a middle school in Spokane WA. I have a membership at the local range and shoot once or twice a week. My wife and I hike, lake kayak and camp. We used to backpack before I broke my back. For the last five years I've worked as a professional fisherman five months out of the year doing predator control on the Snake River as part of the salmon recovery program. Basically I'm a bounty fisherman. I welcome you as a friend and want to share knowledge and learn as much as I can. P.S. I'm a conservative, but tend towards the Libertarian point of view.