James that sounds great. A few years ago I tracked down his two sons and one of them Richard was his backup (with a 270 rifle) on the Brown Bear and he also took the pic. that's in the book. Said the bear surprised them at lunch time and Al hit it with one of the "brass screw bullets" near the spine from the scoped 29 and it ran into the brush a little ways and that was it the first scoped 44 mag. brown bear. He really was way ahead of his time just think what he could have done (might have been the first to hunt africa with a handgun) had he lived.