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“When I first saw that it had an RMR on it, the first thing I thought of is if it’s got a red dot, I can shoot it under NODs.”
“This revolver takes heavy inspiration from a variety of guns from the ‘Borderlands’ series,” he says. “It was just
be. I’m not a video game guy and I didn’t pick up on that
a ‘why the hell not?’ sort of thing. I build a lot of high-end
connection right away. I noticed first that it had an RMR on
AKs. After a while building the same thing over and over
it… so owning a night vision company and doing a lot of
again gets kind of boring, so you have to figure out how to
night shooting, the first thing I thought of was ‘If it’s got a
spice things up somehow.”
red dot, I can shoot it under NODs.’”
Huffman and Roberts first met at a customer-
future owner that Roberts tried to seal the deal right then
were party. “I brought [the Blackhawk] in to fire a couple
and there. “I tried to buy it on the spot, but he responded
rounds downrange when things were slow,” Huffman says.
that no, it wasn’t for sale,” Roberts says. “After I’d tried if I still wanted it. Because it was time for him to start a new
“Alex was telling me about his different projects and how
project.” barrel by about an inch, so it’s currently around 5 inches
pleasure of meeting. He uses different parts and puts
even. He re-crowned it, and to accommodate the Trijicon
different things on guns regardless of how they quote
RMR he made a mount that press-fit over the gun’s frame
unquote ‘should be’—like the red dot on this revolver, for
so the optic is not set directly on the wood.
On the trio’s first meeting—the two men and the gun—
01 The factory Ruger barrel was trimmed by about an inch. The wood panels were trimmed to length, slotted for the extractor, and pinned to the barrel shroud.
02 A custom frame extension was made to extend the grip for the previous owner’s extra-large hands.
The first thing Huffman did to this gun was cut down the
but he’s one of the most talented gunsmiths I’ve had the
instance. That’s part of why this build got me so excited.”
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about four more times, one day he texted me and asked me
talking about custom guns, stuff like that,” Roberts says. he approaches different builds. He’s a pretty modest guy,
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The attraction was so strong between the gun and its
appreciation range day to which their respective companies
“Our tables were right next to each other, so we started
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at it without any kind of bias of what it was supposed to
Obviously, the original RMR04 still resides on the gun and Roberts does use it for night vision shooting. But, since the
Roberts continues: “We were looking at it through two
RMR04 uses fiber optics that rely on ambient light, it does
different sets of eyes. He looked at it from the standpoint
not interface as well with his NVGs. Roberts’ plan is to swap
of the build and the thought process behind it, but I looked
the optic for a battery-powered RMR06 in the near future.
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