Everyone back home that asks me how was your trip, I tell them it will take me at least half a day to tell you how good it was.
In summary I ended up with 3 full credit cards, 9 more rifles for my collection, 80 pounds of gun books, 8 large boxes shooting gear for my little home gun shop & a million great memories. The group ended up with close to 30 guns to ship home.
We shot belt fed machine guns, played up in Vegas (I can't tell you about that as what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas), spent time & money in Bass Pro, Scheels & 4 different Cabelas, & at least 25 gun shops. We had tours of the Shiloh Sharps & C Sharps factories, the Hawthorne Ordnance Museum, the Elmer Keith Museum & had a great time at the Big Reno Gun Show incorporating the Winchester Arms Collectors Western Show. We tried to fit so much in we were late getting to both the Buffalo Bill Historical Centre & the Custer Memorial, so both of them opened up after hours & gave us private tours, unbelievable service that was much appreciated. Each member of our group got something different out of the trip, Jake wanted to hunt & got his Elk, his father Peter got Harley T shirts from several different towns, & the pleasure of see his son take the Elk, Mates John & Jimmy are both BPCR shooters, John has a number of Shiloh Sharps, so his highlight was the Shiloh tour, Jimmy picked up some sights as well as a couple of nice old rifles, Craig came for a good time & was a great source of knowledge along the way, as well as being a great navigator, father & son Leon & Matt had a great time, Leon was the life of the party & Matt liked the Machine Gun shoot so much he went back for seconds, Paul wanted to pick up rifles to take home & sell, so he raced us to all the bargains & out bought all of us, I got to see snow for the first time, got to see Toby Keith, Kellie Pickler & Dale Watson perform, & got to see more F series Fords than I had in my life (my other passion).
I will post more pics & tell more stories as I think of them, but I want to finish by thanking Joe for your knowledge & professionalism, & for guiding me on the best hunt of my life.
Thanks also to Rick & Georgia Hill & the members of the WACA that made us feel so welcome in Reno. Thank You
Bison taken with my new second hand 1895 Winchester in .405 (Charles handloads)
Rocky Mountain Elk taken with my 1895 Winchester in .405
Texas Dall Sheep taken with my Whitney Kennedy 44-40
Jake's Rocky Mountain Elk taken with his new 1895 in .405
New hunting budies left to right, Jake, Joe, Charles, Pete & Richard
Not only did the Winchester Arms Collectors give me this Wall Plaque but I came second in the raffle & won a Model 70 Winchester in 30-06
Our Group celebrating my 40th birthday at Buffalo Bill's Irma Hotel in Cody Wyoming, our group left to right
Leon, Paul, Jake (Little Hoss), Peter, Pete (Hoss), Craig, Jimmy, John, Matt (Big Hoss)
I got this photo with John Wayne at a gun store in Phoenix, I also got to see his star & footprints in Hollywood.
Actually, that's a trip any AMERICAN would want to have experienced and not many do. Wonderful!
You guys sure got around.
-----------------Sixgun
