Our story ....
Well, I have been working in the sporting goods retail trade for the past 32 years now, and I'm currently the manager of the Hunt Shop for Island Outfitters Ltd., the only full time gun shop located in Victoria, B.C., Canada.
I've been shooting and hunting all of my life, and started out with black powder muzzle loaders, then switched over to competitive handgun shooting and shot IPSC (practical pistol matches) for many years and qualified twice for the Canadian National Team.
Since then, I've shot some Trap shotgun, Skeet shotgun, hunted big game and some upland birds here in B.C. and Alberta with "Jake", my German Shorthaired Pointer bird dog. I also wear the editor's hat for one of my local gun clubs for the past 150 editions of their monthly bulletin.
My wife Laurie is a legal secretary working with the Provincial Crown Counsel's offices at the courthouse in Victoria, and now has 25 years service with the B.C. Provincial government. We met when she wanted to learn to shoot some Skeet shotgun, and about a year later we were married on the grounds of the gun club where we first met, and my best friend's GT/CS "S" code was our wedding car. He was kind enough to sell it to me last Christmas so that we could keep our wedding car "in the family".
A few years ago, due to our shooting interests, we both became involved with a friend's recreated "Wild West Show" and do a bit of trick shooting and frontier theatre performances. "Captain Jack's Wild West Show" is all in good fun, and it gives us both a chance to "unwind" and enjoy spending some time with a few similar minded folks! The "Reverend Al" and the "Temperance Tilly" also shoot a little bit of Cowboy Action Shooting when time allows.
The rest of the time we just keep throwing more and more money at two classic 60's Mustang project cars ......
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The current "plan" is for both of us to retire in about a year and half, which should leave us a bit more time (and less money) for our hobbies.
... and the "Reverend Al" and the "Temperance Tilly" will ride off into the sunset .... on the bright red "pony express"!