Sporting Rifle

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How many years have you been a custom rifle builder?

Riflecraft Ltd was started to fill a gap in the then commercial rifle market. It was identified that customers were either offered off-the-shelf factory rifles or fullblown custom builds of exceptionally high costs. There was an obvious need for a service to accurise factory rifles and build custom rifles within the budget of an average working shooter.

We started in February 1998 in a workshop near my home, with three staff. We then moved to an industrial unit, that we still occupy, in December 2007. We expanded to four units

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