More of a nostalgia thread than anything .
The 2 rifles belonged to my late father and a deceased member of our moose party - actually I am the only one left out of the 5 in the group.
The .30-06 Remington 760 belonged to a friend of my father's who came with us every year. Bob was a neat guy, worked on the Avro Arrow and then for NASA in the states when the Arrow got scrapped, before moving back to Ontario. Other than sighting it in every fall, he never saw a moose and never shot anything with it. When he passed, his widow gave me the rifle and I passed it to my daughter.
The Savage 110 .338 Magnum belonged to my father. He brought it across the border to Michigan and had it Magna-ported (things were a lot easier to do 30 years ago...). His dream was to go west and use it on an elk hunt, but family illnesses and deaths got in the way and he never got a chance to hunt with it. The only time we fired it was sighting it in probably 25 years ago one day at a range. When he was in the hospital with terminal cancer and my daughter told him she was moving to the Yukon, he insisted that she take the rifle with her as he never got it west.
Two falls ago, she called me all excited that she had shot her first moose with the Remington. I was very happy that she was able to use a heritage firearm from our moose hunting group to fill her freezer. Bob would be smiling!
After 3 years of applying, she got picked for a resident guide license and she, my SIL, and me are out moose hunting on the Yukon River. I am using dad's .338 and I hope that we can harvest a moose with it, although I would be just as happy if either of them shoot one. I am just enjoying the experience!
Bottom line is always cherish the time you have when hunting with your children or friends. I started moose hunting with dad when I was 8 and we only missed going 3 times in 48 years and I will never forget the time we had together.
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