Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Father son trip to AZ Dec 5th through the 13th, flying into Tucson!

Greg Shiner Bock will be perfect. I am not going to sleep hardly a wink tonight. This year has been a rough one stress wise from work so when I slid down the Dinosaur tail today knowing I only have 2 days of real work left for the month it was one of relief and then anticipation for this adventure!
Been around 18 months since I my Dad and this just feels like a awesome way to break that streak.

AZ here we come!!

We have reached the promised land! Made SV about 6:30 local time and we are having a beer and some food at Texas Roadhouse. Both had long flights and are now out for a short time. Xmas parade is going on and if had been a little earlier we could have made it.

Bienvenidos !

....see ya' in the AM !

GTC

Well we spent the day with Greg and it was awesome as I expected.

We had a good breakfast and headed out to Greg's place to get a tour and then fondle the rifle. We spent most of the day there talking and just getting acquainted.

Greg went over the disassembly and maintenance of a Rolling Block. We will be annealing cases and maybe casting bullets tomorrow for a range day Tuesday.

I don't think my dad and I could have had a better day. I hope us 2 BPCR rookies didn't look to green when the finer points were discussed. Pics of some of this will get posted later.

Thanks for a wonderful day Greg and we will see you in the morning!

Jim Jr.

I found the Win. brass , will remain unsure as to why I had it in a kitchen cupboard ,...we'll get after initial prep, annealing and loading technique,...dunno' about casting, there's a fine inventory of good slugs on the shelf,...

Tues forecast looks PERFECT, and should be fine shooting conditions.

GTC

Some pictures of the trip so far.



Tucson Airport





Bore Sight Magic






One reason for the trip!

mack,

Looks like you're all enjoying yourselves. Nothing like some AZ sunshine in the winter!

I see all the other posts giving possible road trips for you while there. If you have "extra" time, take a trip up to Whiteriver/ Ft Apache on the Fort Apache Indian Res. Head up thru Globe and you'll also go thru the "grand canyon" of the Salt River, another cool canyon in AZ besides the big ditch. It's the type of road folks from the midwest and such never get to see in their area.

Oh, yes, it's the "real" Ft Apache. You'll be passing thru the lands of some great Apache warriors.

Enjoy the rest of the trip and the pics are great. Keep 'em coming.

Geno

We did some shooting yesterday.

Mack5511 is going to be a holy terror with this rifle, he soaks up the belt delivered by this rifle like a stump.



His Dad's no slouch with the thing, either....lookout pigs, here they come !

Outstanding sirs. Thank you for sharing the pics.

Jim is indeed good company, we had lunch together in Orlando. What a great fellow!

Thank you Tracy and Sam. I enjoyed spending time with both of you. Hopefully we can repeat it again sooner rather than later.

Mack

Some more pics of the trip:



The glass bed of the forearm.







Raw brass prep

A few more:





OIDabble with the rifle

Absolutely beautiful wood on that rifle there mack.

Thanks for sharing such a cool part of your life with us.

Geno

PS, what caliber on the rifle, I missed that part somewhere along the line. 45-70? 50-90?

Val,

45-70

Thanks for the input too. I am glad this trip has come together.

Mack

Everyone should see AZ at least once, but I say that about every state! I think I'm only about 15 short of having seen at least a part of all 50 (some of those parts are Interstate right of ways and what one can see from them).

Sure glad you had a chance.

Geno

PS, not sure if you're still down there at casa de crossfire, if so, ask him how the badges are coming along

Waved Adios' to these two fine characters yesterday around high noon. 4 days passed in fine company went by WAY to quick.
The opportunity to start with an old family / neighborhood artifact and craft up a strong, reliably accurate hunting tool evolved into the better part of a 2 year voyage, and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Mack5511's a good photographer, and wielded my old D400 Nikon, as I did the preliminary plinking, and got the sights dead nuts.Once I was satisfied, I handed off to it's Father / Son operating team, and won't deny feeling just a mite proud of how this all played out.
Pics are worth more than words. No captions below, shouldn't be needed.