THAT is a fascinating story; even the names a tug at my heart, having grown up in logging country where there were many Finns...Heikennen, Finnerud...I would think of more if I tried.
I have never heard of his gun, "a Finnish-modified Mosin-Nagant M1891 rifle, which was originally manufactured in Russia...the Finnish army’s preferred rifle, in part because it rarely jammed, and also because the stocks were made of Arctic birchwood, which was not susceptible to warping in the cold."
The end of his story is remarkable also, in its own way: "He ran a farm for much of the rest of his life, living alone, quietly, never marrying or having children. He lived to be 96, dying of natural causes in a veteran’s facility."
And the photo, of him at his namesake rifle competition in 1978; it's a lovely find, Tink, glad to learn of him.