Richard Flynn:  

Life I am no longer retired...I have gone back to work, if you can call it that. This year will be 7 years now I've been there. . I am working for Bass Pro, at the gun counter. Its like working for Disneyland. Its busier than I could have thought, but what a blast! Everything I love to do, I now get to talk about and get paid for doing it. I'm the NRA instructor there and teach a basic handgun course on the last Saturday of each month. I also give private lessons at a local range. Prior to my knee surgery i was the Hunter Education Instructor at Bass Pro, under the authority of California Fish and Wildlife. Besides being an NRA instructor, I was past Director of the Shooting Sports program for the San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. After stepping down as director, I wanted to get back on the range and work with the scouts teaching them the fundamentals of firearms handling. I am also a Chief Range Safety Officer and teach people to run gun ranges. I teach firearm safety, hunter education, rifle, pistol, shotgun, handgun, black powder rifle and I teach home security. I am a California handgun safety Instructor under the Department of Justice and for a while, I also instructed rock climbing for the scout council. My latest is shooting for distance. A group I work with are retired SWAT snipers and a former Marine / FBI sniper instructor. About every other Monday we go to the Folsom Gun Club outside Sacramento and shoot from 500 meters to 600 and 1000 yards. The eyes aren't what they used to be, but i still shoot within the 9 and 10 rings. The 500 meter is what is called the steel range as it has steel silhouettes. Chickens at 200, pigs at 300, turkeys at 400 and rams at 500. The idea is to knock them over...a lot of fun. Best shot to date is a golf ball at 400 meters... the golf ball picture has been posted under photos. I love photography as you can tell by some of my photos...I have been doing it for about 35 years and have enough equipment to open a studio. Only one thing stopped me...I don't believe in being a starving artist. For several years I was a professional (world title) kickboxing judge for California and Nevada State Athletic Commissions, which is the reason for my e-mail address "kbjudge". This by the way was not a full time position...you only do one to two events a month, but a lot of fun doing things you enjoy. I have three sons, Brian, Blaine and Brendon. Blaine, the middle son, earned his Eagle in scouting and the youngest, Brendon, also attained his Eagle rank. My Middle son, Blaine is into his music...he has played and taught guitar for about 9 years. He writes, plays and records his own music and was part of a band for a while. He enlisted in the Navy and went through training in Pensacola, Fl. training in Aviation electronics. He was freezing in Great Lakes over the wi...Expand for more