Post by supersporter40 on Jul 30, 2008 11:59:42 GMT -5
John must have been bit hard with the hunting bug when he was a young lad. The exact date when he moved to Bergen is not real clear but a rough guess would be right around 1912-14. His son Jimmy who is still up and at `em is pretty spry for being 87, he is known as the neighborhood grampa. The nicest fellow you could meet.
Jimmy, and his two older brothers Olaf and Wesley caught the hunting bug as well, each of them using John's model 8 in 25 Rem when the others weren't. Jimmy especialy liked the model 8.
Fit with a Marbles tang sight it accounted for many deer around their home and in the back country. Here are some pictures to prove.
This picture is back in the Nitchi Valley where John got a second homestead. Instead of clearing it somehow he got away with just putting a cabin and yard on it and used it solely for hunting. My kind of guy! ;D John has his 8 leaning up against him. Next to him is his youngest son Jimmy with a Winchester model 67.
You've just got to love the grin on a kids face when he's got a 22 in his hands. Jimmy is holding an 1890 Winchester pump there with his 67 single shot. The pump was his older brother Olaf's which he still has to this day. They shot the barrel out of it and then Olaf took it to Calgary and paid a gunsmith $8 to reline it! He and Jim would toss cans up in the air and got to where they could hit it three times before it got to the ground.
Looks like Jimmy graduated to a high power here! He is holding a Ross rifle in 303. This was his sister's husband's rifle. Not sure if it is a sporterized milsurp or a comercial sporter, Jim does not know where it ended up. This has to be the biggest coyote I have ever seen.
Here is John over at his daughter's Solvieg's place. I add this one to show the bandolier he always seemed to have carried.
Here is the only picture Jim had of his brother Wesley hunting. Wes drove school bus for my Mom and for the first three years of my schooling too.
Story goes that this Golden Eagle was trying to take a calf for breakfast one day at Solveig's place. Wesley took care of that I guess.
Here is Olaf (right) with the Bull Moose and Mule Deer he shot with the Model 8
The Gamble boy is holding the head.
Here are some of Jimmy, he told me how one day at the farm, the cattle started acting up in the corral, when he looked fromt he upstairs window a bear stood up right in the middle of them all.
He shot once from the window withthe 25 Rem, the bear ran intot he bush behind the farm. He went after it finding the bear biting itself and spinning in circles. He recalls shooting it again to dispatch it. Jim said after that he never had a desire to shoot another bear.
This is Jim's first Moose. Jim was born 1920 so this would be in the late 30's.
Jim leaving to work for Bill Erickson logging the Highwood valley.
When the got up to the logging camp, the market for lumber was all but dead due to the depression. Needless to say the lumber company went broke before very long and the boys got sent home. One of the slow days they decided to go Sheep hunting.
Jimmy and John Snarud had some great luck getting a ram and a goat! For whatever reason they had an 1899A Savage in 303 for this adventure. He must have left his Dad's gun back at camp.
As you can see the logs they had to use were from a forest fire.
This was back at camp.
Jimmy and his brother Olaf heading home with the crew from the highwood:
In later years, Jimmy would take his Dad out to the valley. The boys were old enough to take care of the farm. John would stay out at his cabin all by himself for the whole winter, trapping a little and hunting to keep himself going. He had to walk with two poles by this time. Jim was always worried his Dad would have a fall and not get up again. This is the last trip to the cabin that Jimmy recalls his Dad taking. This cabinis still standing, I hope to go see it with Jimmy this summer.
Jim went to work for Spray Lake Sawmill in the early years of the company. While up there he would see this buck every morning on the ride from camp to the mill. He asked his boss if he could take a morning of to go get the buck. He was allowed and it turned out in his favor.
And now today....
Jimmy, and his two older brothers Olaf and Wesley caught the hunting bug as well, each of them using John's model 8 in 25 Rem when the others weren't. Jimmy especialy liked the model 8.
Fit with a Marbles tang sight it accounted for many deer around their home and in the back country. Here are some pictures to prove.
This picture is back in the Nitchi Valley where John got a second homestead. Instead of clearing it somehow he got away with just putting a cabin and yard on it and used it solely for hunting. My kind of guy! ;D John has his 8 leaning up against him. Next to him is his youngest son Jimmy with a Winchester model 67.
You've just got to love the grin on a kids face when he's got a 22 in his hands. Jimmy is holding an 1890 Winchester pump there with his 67 single shot. The pump was his older brother Olaf's which he still has to this day. They shot the barrel out of it and then Olaf took it to Calgary and paid a gunsmith $8 to reline it! He and Jim would toss cans up in the air and got to where they could hit it three times before it got to the ground.
Looks like Jimmy graduated to a high power here! He is holding a Ross rifle in 303. This was his sister's husband's rifle. Not sure if it is a sporterized milsurp or a comercial sporter, Jim does not know where it ended up. This has to be the biggest coyote I have ever seen.
Here is John over at his daughter's Solvieg's place. I add this one to show the bandolier he always seemed to have carried.
Here is the only picture Jim had of his brother Wesley hunting. Wes drove school bus for my Mom and for the first three years of my schooling too.
Story goes that this Golden Eagle was trying to take a calf for breakfast one day at Solveig's place. Wesley took care of that I guess.
Here is Olaf (right) with the Bull Moose and Mule Deer he shot with the Model 8
The Gamble boy is holding the head.
Here are some of Jimmy, he told me how one day at the farm, the cattle started acting up in the corral, when he looked fromt he upstairs window a bear stood up right in the middle of them all.
He shot once from the window withthe 25 Rem, the bear ran intot he bush behind the farm. He went after it finding the bear biting itself and spinning in circles. He recalls shooting it again to dispatch it. Jim said after that he never had a desire to shoot another bear.
This is Jim's first Moose. Jim was born 1920 so this would be in the late 30's.
Jim leaving to work for Bill Erickson logging the Highwood valley.
When the got up to the logging camp, the market for lumber was all but dead due to the depression. Needless to say the lumber company went broke before very long and the boys got sent home. One of the slow days they decided to go Sheep hunting.
Jimmy and John Snarud had some great luck getting a ram and a goat! For whatever reason they had an 1899A Savage in 303 for this adventure. He must have left his Dad's gun back at camp.
As you can see the logs they had to use were from a forest fire.
This was back at camp.
Jimmy and his brother Olaf heading home with the crew from the highwood:
In later years, Jimmy would take his Dad out to the valley. The boys were old enough to take care of the farm. John would stay out at his cabin all by himself for the whole winter, trapping a little and hunting to keep himself going. He had to walk with two poles by this time. Jim was always worried his Dad would have a fall and not get up again. This is the last trip to the cabin that Jimmy recalls his Dad taking. This cabinis still standing, I hope to go see it with Jimmy this summer.
Jim went to work for Spray Lake Sawmill in the early years of the company. While up there he would see this buck every morning on the ride from camp to the mill. He asked his boss if he could take a morning of to go get the buck. He was allowed and it turned out in his favor.
And now today....