It really was. Backdrops 300 degrees around. Beautiful AZ desert rock and Saguaros. My Son and I camped out overnight often. When we first started shooting out there, there were remnants of a steel hopper from the original mining operation. At a point tweekers looking for scrap started going out there with a cutting torch and taking anything they could salvage. One time I brought a cold rolled steel plate out there measured 1" thick x 36" x 48". Took 4 of us to slide it out of my truck bed. We stood it up against that embankment about 200 yds from the firing line. It had a real nice thump when you nailed it. Sure enough less than a year later went out there and it was gone. No way could they have lifted it whole. Had to be tweekers with a cutting torch again.