Peter:

Sorry for the late reply.

Very interesting that you have the hunting seasons you do. Here we have over-the-counter licenses for whitetail and mule deer, elk/wapiti, bear and cougar and lottery seasons on mountain goat and moose/elg but except for bear all those seasons are in the fall. I've never killed a deer or elk in the spring but of the 8 bear I've killed, several were shot in the spring and spring or fall they all taste good!

My Dad's people came from Bromme, Munke Bjergby sogn and from København, though the Københavners were actually transplanted Norwegians who settled there from Risør, Norway after the War ended in 1814. Yes, 1814. They were pro-Norwegian, pro-Danish and didn't like the sound of a Svensk administration in Norway so they hightailed it to The Big City.

The hunting blood in me comes from my mother's side though. "Old American" Irish and Welsh who settled here in the late 1600's.

What kind of horses do you raise? We have three mares on the place here, all Quarterhorse crosses. Pleasure horses really, though we use them for scouting hunting ground in the mountains, too.

Can you still find factory ammo for the .375 Win or do you handload for it also? It is becoming tough to find here. A forester friend of mine shoots one {a Marlin} and he has a tough tme locating ammo for it.

Funny, you shoot a quinessentially American caliber and I shoot the 6.5x55 and 9.3x57, two quintessentially Scandinavian rounds!!