Bruce- Thanks for sharing those details of Fred Goodwin. After my Father passed away, I was going through some of his Winchester books and came across a letter from Fred G. to my Father. It was a lengthy letter and quite personal which lead me to assume he and Fred had some history. I remember years before my Fathers passing, him talking about a man he was buying obsolete and hard to find Winchester gun parts from. He probably mentioned Freds name but at the time it meant nothing to me. I do remember him saying the mans inventory of parts was massive. My Father collected, bought, sold or traded anything Winchester and Savage for over 55 years. The last 20 years he focused on Model 88's although for his own hunting needs he favored the Model 100. When he passed in 2005 he passed down 2 complete sets, each caliber in both carbine and rifle, one set to my son and one set to my daughter. They still have them. My son loves the 358's and has harvested a couple of moose with them.

A doe elk may have been a bit more receptive....

… could be …. Nature is a strange gal at times . Been my experience anyway

Start once I'm back to work in just 19 days.

….. I mounted a bull elk once….. bucked harder than a pbr bull

Man dear alive Bruce. What a lifetime of adventure and achievement. I'd love to hear some of the stories from these sometime. I'm brand new to trapping and only a couple years into hunting (just one small buck so far, I rarely stand hunt over bait I still hunt and passed on a doe last year) but it's all I want to do anymore. Thanks for sharing this picture.

Carpenter