Larry,
No sense promoting something you can't get, here, anymore. I think, from conversations with Geoffroy, and a few other natives, that horse has left the barn.
John Amber was a huge fan, as was Roger Barlow. I think Don Zutz would have been a bigger fan if he could have found one that fit (he loved my first 20 gauge, a 29" barreled, straight stocked gun with a long LOP) but, he was sort of an "off the shelf" guy when it came to guns, from what I can remember. If he had any custom hunting guns, he didn't say anything about them, that I can remember.
I only met him, once. I think he had a BT-99 along that day, but, I'm not positive. We talked after shooting.
I will ask Steve about that, but, it seems like urban legend, to me. Bodio's father flew pigeons, and Steve was interested in all birds, and birds of prey, from a very early age. "Aloft" came out in the early 1980s, it would seem to me he was well involved in Falconry prior to the Boyce story becoming well known.
Best,
Ted
