Eve Flanigan 01.31.24
Attending the January 2024 West Texas Looking Extravaganza, hosted by the West Texas chapter of Safari Membership Worldwide, was a brand new rifle vendor able to cater to the wants of huge sport hunters. Even throughout the expansive expo flooring, the gorgeous wooden shares of those weapons caught my eye. After all I needed to get a better look and once I did, I discovered one thing value writing about. Straight from Rock Springs, Wyoming, meet Red Desert Rifles.
Pink Desert Rifles are “customized” in a manner that’s uncommon but true to the which means of the phrase. Proprietor/operator Chad Chapman, a lifelong hunter and rifleman, builds every rifle solely after private session and measurement of every buyer to study his/her meant and possible use of the rifle in addition to dimensions to make a really customized product to serve their searching wants.
At face worth, Pink Desert rifles are distinctive due to hand-crafted wooden shares with matte or high-gloss urethane fiish. Chapman regularly works in Tiger or Shelled Maple, but additionally makes use of Turkish Walnut, Bastogne Walnut, and Myrtle. Every inventory’s size of pull, comb top, padding, and general design is made for every buyer, and outfitted with an in-house personalized motion, barrel, and barrel options, and set off. Chapman confirmed me a carbon fiber barrel with a sexy fluting sample of his personal design. Threading and customized thread protectors are a part of every rifle bundle.
Constructing a rifle for a specific hunter’s style and measurements is just not the top of the method. Chapman usually consists of an optic with the bundle, and in each session, works with the client to make sure they’re absolutely competent behind their new gun. Wyoming, with its frequent gale-force winds and large open ranges, is the perfect place to develop as a rifle shooter. The acquisition of a Pink Desert rifle consists of, at minimal, Chapman taking pictures it to verify it meets his ½ MOA or much less accuracy assure. If the purchaser wants help in understanding rifle-craft as considered by way of the lens of huge sport searching, he additionally takes them afield to discover ways to vary targets and name wind, to realize a secure platform when taking pictures from varied positions, and to make the humane name to get nearer or wait for an additional day when the chances of an excellent hit aren’t nice.
These rifles are fairly in addition to sturdy. Chapman had on show the rifle that accompanied him on a 10-day Dall Sheep hunt. That rifle has logged many miles afield on that hunt alone, after which some. One would anticipate the shiny inventory to look bedraggled, nevertheless it takes pretty shut inspection to seek out the couple dings and scratches.
It will be inconceivable to discover a rifle made with extra caring consideration to element than a Pink Desert rifle, and none that I do know of include the peace of thoughts of getting customized coaching included in order that bagging that trophy animal is as near assured as attainable. These rifles are prepared for supply 10 months post-order and priced round $15,000; a bit extra if bought with a mounted optic. The store additionally presents customized work on current rifles and handguns.