Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Remington #1 Rolling Block Build(Father & Son Collaboration) - Crossfireoops Built

So about a 2 years ago my dad wound up with a Remington #1 action for doing some work for someone. It was in a box full of stuff and we had no idea what it was worth if anything. I posted a few pictures of it and asked some questions here on the fire and found out it was possible worth being the base for a build. After some discussions with my father I reached out to one of the fire member who has the most knowledge of rebuilding these fine old rifles.

Crossfire agreed to take a look and verify the safety of the action for a build. After his confirmation of soundness my father and I approached him about being the person to build a rifle from that action.

He agreed and we were off to the races.

My father and I have never been able to do a father son project. Neither were really into cars nor did we have the funds to get started down that road. When it came to woodworking it was always a working relationship not anything just for fun. This seemed like the perfect thing for us to make into that long elusive project. I can truly say I believe it has brought us closer together. I have spent more enjoyable conversations discussing little things that we wanted done and how we want it to look etc.

So I want to say a very sincere thank you to Greg you have enabled me to spend many fine hours in conversation with my dad that I never had before. We both have been excited about watching this build progress. I know he has enjoyed many hours getting to know you by phone. I stayed out of those conversations for the reason I wanted this rifle to have my dads ultimate influence and his conversations with you were a big part of that. I think you captured every detail that him and I spoke about. I think you also captured what his essence is and that was important. Thanks for giving this old action new life and a new place of honor in my family. Greg you are an artist and a gentleman and I am proud to know you.

Ultimately although this is a father son project it in reality is a son to father project.

Thank you Dad for being the man you are, thank you for sacrificing your youth to raise me, thank you for teaching me that the hungry wolf hunts the hardest, thank you for telling me you don't make the rules! Most of all Thank You!!

So although this build is not yet done we are on the downhill slide.

We started with this:

Here is the action at the start of the project:



Disassembled:



Cleaned up:




And are now at this:



For a full breakdown of the build it is in the BPCR section:

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/8815281/1