The Company
Accurate Rifle Systems began in 2012 with a handmade billet pistol chassis. This one off piece generated tremendous interest in a production version. Through months of development, and many revisions we created a quality product that fills a void in the shooting world. As a career inventor, machinist, and craftsman this is the most rewarding project I have achieved. I believe in my products and you will too after the first shot.
The Owner
My machining career began my sophomore year attending technical career center for machine trades. How did I make my career choice? I knew I wanted to attend the local career center, wanting to make things. Since I was young I would dis-assemble everything I could get my hands on, with most of the time successfully putting them back together. This decision seemed like a good career move furthering my “tinkering” mindset. The first months of class were tough learning machining fundamentals, as I just wanted to run machines and make stuff. I stuck it out with the toughest hard assed teacher around to complete 2 years (looking back his tough standards helped to make me a better machinist). During my senior year I worked a co-op program after school in a small job shop learning from a journeyman tool maker I worked beside. He took me under my wing teaching me custom tool and die work.
After graduation the job shop slowed with the owner giving me a heads up that he would keep me as long as he could but if another job came along to take it. I applied at the largest manufacturing company in the area being hired that day. It was overwhelming to go from the small job shop to a large company, but I had a great supervisor who took time to help me acclimate to much larger equipment and parts being produced. Although the company was large it was growing exponentially providing me with plenty of opportunities to move around learning new machines and machining processes. The most important career move was transitioning to CNC machine tools. The company began purchasing CNC machine tools, and the older employees wanted nothing to do with them enabling me to take positions on these machines very early in my career. This served to make me an expert in CNC setup, programming, and operation moving around the company on many new state of the art manufacturing equipment.
After 20 years in the machine shop the challenge was fading. Working in a company making a dedicated product once parts are setup and programmed all that’s left to do is run parts. This became very boring and unfulfilling. So I started a small job shop in my garage to satisfy my creative itch. It was slow in the beginning, but steadily grew from the garage into a 4,000 sq/ft rented industrial space presently.
In the fall of 2012 I was approached by Randy Wise who was shooting 1,000 yard competitions with a pistol. He told me he crafted a billet pistol stock by hand for his bolt action pistol. He stopped over to show me his pistol and wanted me to make a production version of his prototype. His pistol drew attention from fellow shooters wherever he took it, and he thought it would be well received. With me only having used shotguns for hunting this was all new to me, but very exciting. He worked with me to produce a CNC manufactured version that could be sold at a reasonable price in a short lead time. Pistol stocks were selling very well by word of mouth and some forum posts. After having dozens in the field I started receiving customer feedback. Following the key business principal of the customer is always right I began to redesign a generation 2 version incorporating customer feedback such as: slimmer body, increased grip area comfort, and weight. This redesign invented the “shot chamber” which was a vast improvement in shooting quality over the previous generation pistol stock. I also was encountering requests for a rifle version. This led to the modular concept rifle with the addition of a butt stock, magazine provisions, and 3” extra length on the fore end. Pistol and rifle manufacturing has steadily grown consuming most of my manufacturing capacity, which if fine with me, as I have made many friends from this niche market. I am fully committed to serving the shooting community for decades to come. Please allow me to use my decades of manufacturing experience to serve you.
The Shop
Accurate Rifle Systems is a 2500sq/ft. manufacturing facility located on central Ohio. We utilize CNC controlled manufacturing equipment enabling us to repeatedly manufacture our products. As well as employing the latest cutting tool technology to provide surface finishes and tolerance precision of sub one thousands of an inch.