Interview 3367 – Caption Index: 71
You said you could go on your own. Read More
You said you could go on your own. Read More
No, well, I just hold one because we knew that we had a couple that that went awry. We had a patent attorney that, that Christ and burned went into the hospital and we had three patents in the middle then. So I just got one patent actually. So we… Read More
And the name of the company?… Read More
Oh, Zoolu Arms. Z-O-O-L-U, yeah. Z-O-O-L-U Arms, yeah. So yeah, no we, we’re just not, you know, we’re not, not right now, cranking out dart guns, but a lot of poles syringes. So, you had been doing this, but you really, your heart was still in the zoo world primary. Read More
So we’ve, we’ve designed five different models of dart gun. And I’ve got a sixth model on the drawing boards right now and actually have a prototype made that can be made with CNC. And those early days where I, you know, I have dinner, read the newspaper and then… Read More
So that if you got a 10 pound monkey, six feet away from you, you can shut it down. And you’ve got a muzzle velocity of about 150 feet per second coming out the muzzle. And so you can smack out 10 pound monkey and not blow a hole through… Read More
What is the name of the company?… Read More
How many patents do you hold?… Read More
What do you think makes yours better than a lot of others?… Read More
Well, you know, not only in those days, did we, you know, whether or not a lot of things that we simply didn’t know, right, ’cause the knowledge base, you know, in the database simply wasn’t there. But there were a lot of, a lot of the equipment and things… Read More
You never knew quite what the thing was going to do. And so, you know, my first, you know, quote unquote dart gun was that I picked up a Remington rolling block, 50-70 saddle carbine, an old, you know, an old military, you know, cavalry carbine, and made a, you… Read More
And then a couple people saw it, came through and saw it and they wanted one. So then I, I had a lathe in my basement in Omaha and, and so, cause I would, I’d been a gun, you know, kind of an amateur gunsmith. And cause it really started… Read More
But he had sense to hire you. Well, or bad sense (muttering). Actually, it turned out to be really great because we were a great training ground. And, and because I got to dabble in virtually everything in the whole zoo and, you know, and have a say in, and… Read More
Blow pipes, yeah. All those types of implements. And based on my experience with people in the business, they speak very highly of the product. Read More
And can you tell us, how did you decide to get into that phase of it?… Read More
What prompted you to do it?… Read More
And plus because the National Zoo had the resources to communicate. So our first, you know, our first kind of formal communications within zoo vet were because of Clint Gray. And when we started going to East Lansing to Michigan State, Clint helped sponsor a bit at that. And they… Read More
When you were at Columbus Zoo, the director there that had hired you, did he teach you anything, give you any lessons or was he there just too short a time?… Read More
He was there a very short period of time. And he, and he taught me to, (chuckling) he taught me to watch out for him because he, he was careless about animals. He nearly got us all eaten by, by very angry female lion with cubs one day, cause he… Read More
Well, in some cases, dog or cat, or you know, but in some cases, you know, with the odd species that were not related to domestic animals, you look at this and had no idea. And. Read More