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Offline GrampaMike

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Just an idea...
« on: August 17, 2009, 12:17:57 PM »
Just an idea.  I know there are some Handi Experts here.  Some of them might have a lot of spare time.  Even though I rather do things myself, I just do NOT have the time.  It might be a small business opportunity here.  I have read for years here about an occasional problem Handi or a hard time finding a good load for their Handi (for hunting or target).  I know Tim has great info in the FAQs, but as I said some of us do NOT have time (or in some cases no tools or even talent).  Maybe someone here might like to be a “Handi-Tuner”.  Of course I don’t know the problems of shipping back and forth between individuals, or if it would be just too expensive.  This “Handi-Tuner” would of course become an GB sponsor or pay a fee for each transaction (I don’t know anything about this part).  Anyway just an idea.
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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2009, 12:28:07 PM »
Sounds like a good idea, but then you get into liability, and there is way too much going on between shipping, and work, and return, where a scratch or broken piece can turn into some unhappy campers.

Just my opinion though, and maybe it wouldn't be tht difficult.
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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2009, 12:45:42 PM »
Liability insurance would be an absolute necessity but so would an FFL if frames or complete guns were to be shipped. I agree it is likely a good business opportunity but comes with headaches and concerns.


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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2009, 01:02:34 PM »
If I could win the lotto I'd do it, But hav'en a real job  makes it a real pain to find the time, And I couldn't afford the liabilty. :P
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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2009, 01:42:21 PM »
I don't mind doing stuff occasionally for members, and then barrel only stuff, but to do it as a small business just conflicts with my retirement lifestyle!  :o ;D And doing it for any profit just isn't for me, I do it as a hobby just as I've done computer work for friends.  ;)

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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2009, 02:39:32 PM »
i've been do'n it for over 40years on all kinda shooters...
yes GB your correct... liability insurance and an FFL is a MUST-TO-HAVE... ;D
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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2009, 03:19:00 AM »
Mike it's a great idea but not for me either maybe after retiremnt and then only during non hunting months. It would even end up changing how we answer the ????? instead of check the FAQ'S we would say send it to so and so ;D Kurt
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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2009, 03:59:35 AM »
Kurt, you'll have less time after you retire than you do now.  You'll be be filling a honey do list of all the things you neglected over the past 30 or forty years and will never get done with it :'(  Right now, I've got to get down to my shop and get going straightening up things, I can't even see the top of the work benches.  The lawn is only half cut, the garden needs thinning, weeding and rototilling.  Produce has to be picked and washed.  Chicken eggs need to be picked up and washed.  The barn has to be mucked out and manure spread.  The weed whackers need maintenance work and a lot of immediate use.  Apple trees need pruning and spraying.  Etc., Etc. Etc.  Not to mention guns that need shooting and/or cleaning and fish that need to be caught. 

How did I do it when I worked????

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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2009, 05:30:58 AM »
Pete so what are ya doing playing on the computer get out there and go fishin' ;D Kurt
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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2009, 11:04:08 AM »
Kurt, good idea, I'm thinkin to try bullheads tonight........fry em crispy tomorrow.

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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2009, 11:48:29 AM »
Pete,
 Kurt gave you some very bad advice! You simply must allow some time for shooting as well as fishing ;D
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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2009, 03:41:47 PM »
Some time ago.

Just sitting here dreaming, contemplating how to reload all these
empty cases I need for gopher shooting and deer hunting. Not to mention 20g field loads for pheasants. Thinking hard how to rejuvenate that Ruger#1 243 I had rebored to 6.5-284.

All these projects takes so much time and thinking while sitting in my lazy boy chair looking out the window seeing it blowing snow, that is at the end of April. That was also some time ago.
 
Since there is no heat in my work shop, I have a good excuse not to spend a lot of time there.  Even though all I need to do is to leave the door open, but that is against the law if there are guns and ammo in the room. With all these different projects tools get moved around and can’t be found when you need them.

Also there is a hitch in reloading ammo since components are not available they have been all bought up because of Obama who does not like guns. He promised a change, beating up on gun owners is one of them.

My thoughts are back in Arizona and the warm sun shine, heated swimming pool and cool lemonade and no projects. Though I had to repair a borrowed shotgun I used for skeet shooting. The stock bolt came loose and cracked the pistol grip on a light weight Franchi 20 Auto. Next winter I wont have a 20g available.

Life of old folks can be a pain in many ways, whatever ails must be brushed aside and not fretted on to any further extend if that is at all possible. At my age one has less and less time to do things because most of the time is used up dreaming, planning and wishful thinking.

Talking your 3 mile walk every day becomes just a battle of wills and seems to accomplish nothing but sore legs.  On certain days the neighbor widow who is watching every thing that goes on, ask why I did not go walking today? I say I was too tired from doing nothing.

So who needs a Handi tuner job? Not me. My two Handi's need constant attention whenever I use them, they simply don't like to be user friendly.
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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2009, 03:51:34 PM »
I remember fishing two hours for bullheads so I could use them for bait with a sliding sinker for catching big old stripers out near Martinez.  Set a bull head right on a live bait harness and 30 pound striper was possible on tide turn in Carquines Strait out by reserve fleet.  Okay so I only got one that big once and even then it was only good for second in the Martinez bass derby.

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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2009, 03:55:31 PM »
Just thinking again about how this thread started.  It seems the idea is I send my new handi somewhere,  someone gets to shoot and play with it, and I am supposed to send them money.  Am I missiing the point here?

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Re: Just an idea...
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2009, 04:05:32 PM »
Quote
time is used up dreaming, planning and wishful thinking.


I cut all that out! now i just read here and  go out and shoot when i can...... oh yea sometimes i post and sometimes i dont alienate anyone. But i do have a couple of handis that need a good touch to tune up!
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