Sam Balinger was raised on a Texas cattle ranch but his love of 'mechanical things' drove him to work in a gun shop that specialized in fabricating small gun parts. After moving on he worked as a railroad detective and amassed a small fortune from collecting bounties on the outlaws he brought to justice. Falling in love with a friend from high school the couple trained for eight months in a Texas applied science college. Returning to Dallas the Duo bought a metal machine shop and converted it to a brass cartridge fabrication plant and an ammo loading center. There is plenty of gunfights jungle warfare romance and American ingenuity. The message is friends can become lovers and build a future.