As beautiful as the Rockies are, I could never live there. One of my brothers lives at 10,000 feet elevation outside Denver, and he gets snow every month of the year. Invariably, it snows on the 4th of July. I just couldn't deal with that.
Never owned one of those even though I was friends with owner. I'm pretty sure it is a second generation McPherson. I know it isn't a Mc when Matt owned the company. Too early for a Champion.
Whatever it was, I hunted with it a couple years or more and must have liked it.