My gun was a project of Bill Harvey the stock-maker. As I recall he said Kirk Merrington sleeved the barrels and Jacqueline Favre, who engraved some of the later Ithaca single-barrel traps, engraved it. We were sitting around late one afternoon having a glass of wine. I kept shouldering that gun, and pretty soon was writing a check.

My Wife is from Kodiak, and we spend a good deal of the summer up there. In fact she and my bird dog are already up there. I'll head up there after the Nimrod.