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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 3061323" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>I have all of my life done things that most people wouldn't do, I have messed a lot of things up in my lifetime by trying things that others wouldn't. I learned a lot by making mistakes that I then had to figure out how to fix. I was also very lucky in life and had a lot of older experienced people in my life that were willing to teach me what they knew. I learned by being exposed to these people and observing them while they went about their everyday lives not always knowing that they were actually teaching me how to do things. An example would be my grandpa replacing a hammer handle while I was hanging out around him when I was maybe six, I still do it that way to this day, and have that hammer in my garage with that same hickory handle in it. I will strip and refinish a rifle stock, replace the iron sights on a pistol, mount a scope, put some bluing on my carbon steel firearms or even bed an action in a new stock. But there are limits that I will observe, I am going to take some things to a professional to be done, I am not going to true an action, replace a barrel, that isn't designed to be done by a barrel nut. I will replace a trigger but I'm not going to fine tune one by stoning it, I will clean it and adjust it. I'm not going to replace a computer system in my truck, but I will change the oil and air filter. I will play around and learn how to make a knife blade then do a heat treatment of the various steels that I use, but if that fails nobody is going to be injured or killed. I will take some things to other people that are trained how to do them and have the experience doing them and I will even ask them to let me watch them as they do things just to satisfy my own curiosity and expand my knowledge knowing that I will never do it myself. I will still go out and kill a problem animal that others have tried to and not been able to, but I'm a little bit anal about how I go about it, I am a little more cautious than the average person when I go out to do that, I take my time and observe not just look, I have some steps that I take in a specific order, no matter what it is that I am doing. If I'm going to work on a firearm, fill my gas tank or hunt a problem animal there are steps that I do first and things that must be in a certain order to be done correctly. We all have the way we preferer to do what we do and that work for us I'm not a farmer or rancher, I know just enough about it to get in trouble if I tried to become one, I can fix a fence or water tank when needed but that is just the tip of that iceberg. I have a lot of respect and admiration for people who are professionals and take pride in their crafts, weather they are a gunsmith, mill wright, welder, cabinet maker, farmer, rancher or homemaker and thus I enjoy hearing of their experiences and learning things from them that will be adapted to fit in my life, no matter if I am hunting, calling trapping or fixing a problem with one of my firearms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 3061323, member: 91783"] I have all of my life done things that most people wouldn't do, I have messed a lot of things up in my lifetime by trying things that others wouldn't. I learned a lot by making mistakes that I then had to figure out how to fix. I was also very lucky in life and had a lot of older experienced people in my life that were willing to teach me what they knew. I learned by being exposed to these people and observing them while they went about their everyday lives not always knowing that they were actually teaching me how to do things. An example would be my grandpa replacing a hammer handle while I was hanging out around him when I was maybe six, I still do it that way to this day, and have that hammer in my garage with that same hickory handle in it. I will strip and refinish a rifle stock, replace the iron sights on a pistol, mount a scope, put some bluing on my carbon steel firearms or even bed an action in a new stock. But there are limits that I will observe, I am going to take some things to a professional to be done, I am not going to true an action, replace a barrel, that isn't designed to be done by a barrel nut. I will replace a trigger but I'm not going to fine tune one by stoning it, I will clean it and adjust it. I'm not going to replace a computer system in my truck, but I will change the oil and air filter. I will play around and learn how to make a knife blade then do a heat treatment of the various steels that I use, but if that fails nobody is going to be injured or killed. I will take some things to other people that are trained how to do them and have the experience doing them and I will even ask them to let me watch them as they do things just to satisfy my own curiosity and expand my knowledge knowing that I will never do it myself. I will still go out and kill a problem animal that others have tried to and not been able to, but I'm a little bit anal about how I go about it, I am a little more cautious than the average person when I go out to do that, I take my time and observe not just look, I have some steps that I take in a specific order, no matter what it is that I am doing. If I'm going to work on a firearm, fill my gas tank or hunt a problem animal there are steps that I do first and things that must be in a certain order to be done correctly. We all have the way we preferer to do what we do and that work for us I'm not a farmer or rancher, I know just enough about it to get in trouble if I tried to become one, I can fix a fence or water tank when needed but that is just the tip of that iceberg. I have a lot of respect and admiration for people who are professionals and take pride in their crafts, weather they are a gunsmith, mill wright, welder, cabinet maker, farmer, rancher or homemaker and thus I enjoy hearing of their experiences and learning things from them that will be adapted to fit in my life, no matter if I am hunting, calling trapping or fixing a problem with one of my firearms. [/QUOTE]
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