Gary Reeder
The family just didn't feel that there was enough
Friday, November 29, 2024, 13:44

demand for the book. If you remember Goerg's son Jim visited with us in early 2006. He told us quite a bit about Goerg and his book and the plane crash that killed him and the pilot. The wreckage wasn't found until a year after the crash. Some of the guns were found but several were picked up by some scavengers. One wonders what happened to the 2 S&W model 29s in 44 Magnum and his single shot rolling block that weren't found.

Jim, Goerg's son was in his 40s when he visited with us in 2006. He brought me several little things that Goerg had designed as a thank you for making Goerg a well known name again.
Here is one of Goerg's guns that was found after the crash, one of the first custom XP-100s.Badly damaged but not as bad as one would think. They also found a large number of rolls of film of hunts he was on just before the flight that killed him.



By the time the crash was found Goerg's wife had gone on with her life and eventually re-married and the thoughts of doing a second printing just wasn't their main object at that time of their lives. One son was big into fishing supplies and the other had moved to Canada and was busy with his own life.
He is long gone but for those us that had read and re-read the book so many times that we wore the book out, his hunts and adventures are still alive.