These guys come up on here from time to time. They were possibly the greatest Kodiak brown bear guides ever. A guy I knew hunted with Pinnell and Talifson in 1959, and in 1990, he told me he had filmed the hunt. He asked me to do a magazine article on the hunt, which I wrote for him. He put the film onto a VHS tape and in exchange for writing the magazine article, he gave me the VCR tape and told me to keep it and do what ever I wanted with it. He died a few years later.

Fast forward I was thinking about that tape the other day so I went up into the attic of the garage and found it. I converted it to digital and uploaded it to my youtube channel. It will premiere at 6pm central this evening. Thought you might enjoy it. It's definitely one of a kind.

thanks Bernie B, that was a great story i enjoyed it very well thanks again.

Nice Thank you

Thanks !! Great old Grumman Widgeon there ! There was one still flying in Kodiak a few years ago

There is an interview on the Wilderness page of a guy... Joe Want, who guided for P & T a bit after this hunt. He is still kicking in Fairbanks.

It's here if you're interested. https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthr...kan-big-game-guide-interview#Post7041985

That's a pretty long shot on a brown bear. He did a good job. I'm surprised the guide let him take that shot.

Enjoyed the video
Thanks Bernie

Steve Harvey is still flying, but not much longer possibly. Muttering about retirement more often 😁

Well done Bernie, thank you for posting that.

Osky

Those old planes last forever.

They sure did. I first started working in the fly in camps a long time ago and a Gruman Goose was often the plane. I thought they were old back then and that was a long time back. Never been in a widgeon.

Osky

I was wondering if he was still going .

Thanks Nooksack !

I flew in one of those years ago. There was a guy named Ken Bunch out of Gulkana who flew us in in one. Quite a plane. I poured over the Last of the Great Brown Bear Men, had a copy of it back in the eighties.