Obit

[Leeper]

I just learned of the passing of Albert Forslund of Cherryville B.C.. Albert, along with his brother, Bob, were among the early western Canadian BR competitors. He was a damn good one too! He and Bob built their own rifles based on their own actions and shot them very well indeed. They also made their own bullets in dies they also made. Very talented fellows.
The two of them were a big influence on me and helped me get started in competitive BR. Like most BR shooters at the time, they were almost anxious to give you information about rifle building and /or shooting.
In addition to being a good shooter and rifle maker, Albert was a real character and a great story teller. The language he employed in the telling of his stories good best be described as "colourful" and was the same regardless of his surroundings. Nonetheless, he was an entertaining guy and fun to talk with. I'll always remember his story of using his sister-in-law's ####zu dog as a coyote lure - "Those ---ing coyotes just threw caution to the winds".
In recent years Albert had been shooting hunter class primarily. Typically he was using a rifle he built and, also typically, he was shooting it well.
Rest in peace, Albert.

 

[Kodiak99317]

This is not good news Bill; Albert was a good friend of mine too. I hope he when peacefully or the air would have been some "blue".

He was a good man and great shooter, and I too enjoyed "jawing" with Albert. The first time I meet him, I said to him, "Eh Bob, you made it eh!" (I meet Bob at the Cdn HBR Nationals in Penticton in 1994, and this was now the 1999 NBRSA HBR Nationals plus Bob and I had talk over the phone about going to this event.) He laughed and said, "Your Keith. Bob said you would come up and call me Bob or some $^% thing. I'm Albert, his twin." LOL we did. I meet Albert his wife Linda in LaGrande OR in 1999. He and I were the only two canucks down to compete in this event. He told me after the first day, "I #$%'n figure we both opened a few US eyes pretty wide open today eh" , with him wins high X at 100 yds and me tying for 1st with my 308. LOL again we did.

Alberta and his twin were often refered to by the Namaka BR regulars as the 2 hill billies that came down out of the mountains and took all the candy(prizes and 1st place trophies) at the 1st Cdn Super Shoot. I will missed him, his stories, and his companionship. Wish I would have known earlier and I could have gone to his funeral, which was on Dec. 5th at 1PM in Cherryville BC.

Rest in peace, Albert and my condolences to his wife Linda and his twin brother Bob.

Albert Forslund of Cherryville B.C.. high X count at 100 yds(17x), 1999 US NBRSA Hunter Nationals - LaGrande OR.

Good times remembered, is sad times forgotten...I will remember the good times I had with Albert. kds


Too many good/great Canadian Br shooter have passed in so few years.
Al Murdock, Vern Bouch, Clive Mohn, Ming Dang, Albert, to name a few...
and in the US too, Guy Chism and Skip Otto both instantly come to mind...

Update:
Just talked to his wife and she said Albert died the way he wanted, hunting, he had 3 coyotes, 6 ducks and 3 geese in the back of his truck when he passed on due to a heart attach. He was pulled over at the time having lunch and just said he needed a little nap and laid back with his back against the wheel and went peacefully. He also had cancer and of the two, the heart attach hunting would be the way to go, This was just last week, the last week of Nov 2005. All who knew him will miss him. She also said that one of his most favorable memories was at the 1999 US Nationals, he truly enjoyed himself there, thanks to the gang at the Beaver Pond and "the other canuk".

Albert was a gift from God to Canada, and how he is the gift to God. Heaven will be a far more colorful place with Albert as a resident!

Christ brought us a great reprieve when He said in John 3: Verse 16: "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believed in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."

The key words are "eternal life". The most important truth of life is the knowledge and certainty of a life in the hereafter and I can see Albert right now, talking and laughing, with all those who have passed before him in our small Canadian BR family, about some of his more "exciting" coyote hunting stories.

kds

 

[buckbrush]

He sounds like a man I would have liked to have known.

 

[Splatter]

Geeze and he lived out in my neck of the woods too! I'm sorry we never met, tho I will now try to make his brother's aquaintence.

 

[Rich McFarlane]

I met and hung out with the Forslund Brothers at one of the early Namaka shoots. As you said they were both good company and had tons of great ideas.

Coincidentally, my shooting buddy had ordered a HV from them, a sleeved Rem 700 in 6x47. We didn't know them and we didn't quite know how to take it when these 2 hill billys walked up to us and one said, "Where in hell did you get that goofy looking hunk of crap".

My partner (Reg McClay) replies, "Well he drove me here from Thunder Bay."

"No! I'm talking about that piece of #### on the bench.... not that pile beside you"

When the dicks stopped laughing at me my partner replied, "Well it is an odd looking sleeve but it's the best shooting gun I ever had."

"Yeah we know! We made it."

The sleeve had a huge rib that had been left on as a recoil lug and they left it all the way around because they didn't have a shaper to carve it off, but of course they claimed it was a design feature and one of the reasons why the gun shot so well.

"No! No! It's the shooter and the loading."

"Aw BS! If there was a real man on that thing no one could come close!"

And on and on. We had a great time, hit it off instantly.


I only ran into those boys twice but often wondered what became of them.

They really made a lasting impression.

So long Albert!

We are diminished.