About Us

Custom rifles, barrel and action work, custom stocks and general repair

Buck Mountain Rifle Works (BMRW) is a full-service gunsmith operation with complete metal shop including CNC-vertical mill, CNC-lathe, and heat treating and metal fabrication equipment

Our primary work load is building custom rifles including:

• barreling the action (yours or ours)
• custom chambering
• trigger work/installation
• color-case hardening
• custom metal coatings
• award-winning stock work

We do professional wood or synthetic stock making including:

• repair
• duplication
• fit and finishing
• checkering and carving

No job is too large or too small for us.

We can barrel your action with your choice of barrels in any modern caliber and can provide a wide variety of bolt action styles in right and left hand, chrome moly or stainless steel.

We build proprietary single-shot rifles on the Ruger #1 pattern and custom bolt action rifles whose features are limited only by the customer’s imagination.

If you want it, we can build it; if it’s broken, we can fix it. Click here for a list of our services and prices.

Buck Mountain is a real place.

Nestled in Grayson County, the “Rooftop of Virginia,” BMRW is a father/son business.

Wade Hampton is the master machinist of the business, responsible for the metal fabrication and general repair work, holding a college degree in machine technology. In his early 20s, Wade is an accomplished hunter and outdoorsman whose rifle work is loved by many devoted clients.

Walt Hampton, a former wildlife biologist with 25 years experience in state and federal service, is the stock maker and master gunsmith with over 30 years experience in gun work. Walt is also a freelance writer whose byline has been found in a wide array of firearms publications and currently writes two columns for Gun List, one on handloading and one a technical rifle column. Walt is also Southeast Field Editor of Deer and Deer Hunting magazine and has authored over 400 feature articles on firearms and wildlife biology. Walt is often called upon to make wildlife management presentations to clubs and other groups and is available to speak to your organization.

Publications

Walt’s first book, Tales from Buck Mountain, is now available!

This book won the excellence in craft award for best outdoor book of the year (2005) from the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association (SEOPA).

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Buck Mountain Rifle Works
229 Old Bridle Creek Drive
Independence, VA 24348

For more information call 276-773-3545 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday, fax 276-773-3619, or e-mail hamptwcwj@msn.com.