CSMC not a company that I would do business with, but then I'm hardly their target audience.

Like most fields, the money in the gun business isn't at the trademen's bench. The others who encourage you to go there and learn are correct.

Learn not only the trade from the file and chisel end, but absorb whatever possible from the management perspective. I'd have the goal of setting up my own shop someday.

"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble