Wow Big Smoke, 36k in 36 years, that's more than 80 a month! You were a busy man.
Well, if I only did 6 in a day, and I didn't work weekends, it would be 138 in a month. And I tried to do 12 a day.
But, I did take weeks off during the year. Counting travel time, Friendship amounted to two weeks twice a year, the SHOT show and other events took up maybe 4 weeks a year, then going to various rendezvous and such, plus personal vacations, yeah, I did get a lot of goof off time as well. But when I worked, I worked a lot of hours. Plus I made a lot of other stuff, brass ram rods, molded leather ball and shot flasks, brass primers, drop tubes, and the list goes on. Never made a lot of money, but I sure got to travel around this country, that's for sure.