Interview 3367 – Caption Index: 72
And how did you get to the Omaha Zoo?… Read More
And how did you get to the Omaha Zoo?… Read More
Well, it was fairly obvious that Columbus wasn’t going to, because it was directly under the mayor. It was directly under the mayor. It was a very political, and frankly, in those days, a reasonably corrupt operation, as far as the city. The city was kind of a corrupt operation… Read More
And it was extremely political. I mean, it was extremely political. And I, as I said, it developed a huge dislike for politics and politicians, even though they couldn’t, they couldn’t really lay a hand on me, but they laid a hand on everybody else in the zoo. They would… Read More
The first dart gun was for my own use. And then Mitch Bush came along and said, well, wait a minute. So that, you know, the first, you know, the, the first dart gun that actually went out the door and sold to anybody was actually to the National Zoo. Read More
When did you decide that you wanted to leave Columbus?… Read More
And what were the reasons?… 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