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If it’s the story when they his buddy threw something and hit the bull fighter and had to stay in jail and he tossed his buddy some clothes up to him so he had something in jail which I believe was a pink dress then yes he told me that story.

I will ask him tomorrow about this.

Thank you.

I remember him killing giant rams.
I just couldn't afford to hunt sheep back then. ..😪

Larry is still doing fine in Talkeetna , still flies ane and has a daughter instructing and flying commercially

It was Larry’s Wife.

I would love to catch up to Hap’s rifle. There was a lot of mystique attached to it.

I remember it well where it rested in camp...

But it was "Hoppy's" rifle, not Hap's.

By the time I worked for Hoppy I had more than two dozen custom stocks behind me and picked up on, understood what I was looking at...

Most everybody called him Hoppy except Jack Wilson and Howard Knutson. They both called him Hap. I conversed with both of those guys many a time. The rifle in 264 Winchester Mag had a string that it had not missed on a game animal for 40 or 50 hunts. It supposedly was borrrowed by several of Harrowers hunters for hunts in Tajikstan and in the Wakan Corridor. A lot of guides dote on their rifles and others see them as simple tools. Jim Harrower felt that the rifle had some kind of spirit in it that was lucky.

It would have sucked to be the poor hunter that broke that string of success with a miss.

I hunted with Hoppy several times from the late 80's up to 2000. Killed a heck of ram (40"+) on my last with him in 2000. That year I was about to book a sheep hunt with another outfitter and called Hoppy. He had a recent cancellation on a sheep hunt and I went on that hunt. When I asked him what the hunt would cost, he just told me that he would treat me right. So I left home to go on that hunt not knowing what the price would be. He did treat me right! Hoppy and I got along great. He asked me to stay in camp to be a packer for him. I wish my job at that time would have allowed me to take a long vacation every Aug. and Sept. so that I could have done that. My last contact with him was when he was still in Calif.

waterrat, you mentioned that he is in assisted living in Nebraska. I live in Nebraska. Do you know where he is? Please PM me if you don't want to post the info here.

Timmyt509, you mention talking to him. Is he in Nebraska? Please let me know where. I would really enjoy visiting him. I haven't talked to him for nearly 20 years. Timmyt, also PM me if you don't want to post the info here. If Jim is in NE I will go see him. I would like to relive some of my hunts and flying adventures with him. He was one heck of a bush pilot. The flights in his yellow Otter from Anchorage to camp were fun, but the flights in his Super cub were the best. One heck of a guide and and a great man.

Tommy Sheets passed away about 2 years ago I worked with him at AWWU wonder what happened to his Ram