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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

Rickshaw and JeffP,

I just joined the forum to check on Hoppy and was certainly alarmed to learn of my untimely demise on a motorcycle long ago! In fact that report is somewhat overstated. I affirm that I, Larry Rivers, currently reside in Talkeetna, Alaska and am still ridding that motorcycle and still flying my cub. About 35 years ago I learned at the SCI convention that I had passed in an aviation accident! Let me report that that was also in error. On another topic, I did just hear that Jim "Hoppy" Harrower has recently passed away, which saddens me. Hoppy, Howard and Tony all gone. Not too many of the old crowd still around.

-Larry Rivers

How is your son Shane doing. You might remember me as I was one of the Kenny Lake Wrestlers.

He is doing well. His boys just graduated from University and moved to Texas. Shane is still living in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has not gotten any shorter. ;-)

Thanks for posting Larry. Sorry to hear that Jim passed away. Glad to hear that you are doing well. I remember you from the George Klucky hunting videos.

I wrote or emailed you years ago after reading a story about you sharing the gospel with one of your hunters that changed his life. It was a great story. I don't remember if it was on your website or a magazine or where I read it.

Anyway, glad to hear from you and that you are doing well!

Happy to hear you got better….lol

Do you remember that guy George Clucky? He made the video of your sheep camp in the brooks range?
IIRC he gave the obit in an interview or he mentioned it on an later video.

Trying to PM you but your box is filled. Would like to ask you a question