ON a hunt in Queensland back in 2019 I paid a visit to my good friend Ron Owen at Owen Guns in Gympie. He showed me the prototype of a tactical-style, straight-pull rifle that he’d designed and manufactured in-house. It has taken him a few years to perfect the design, but it is now available in gun shops. I received two for review, one with a heavy barrel and the other a light barrel, carrying low serial numbers — 120 and 139.
Designated Genesis One, this is a highly-specialised, high-precision rifle, a straight-pull bolt-action unlike any other, and it’s built like a battleship. Initially, it is chambered for four popular calibres: .223 Remington, .243 Winchester, 6.5 Creedmoor and .308 Winchester. Later, it will become available for the hell-raising .277 Fury.
Ron, the head honcho of Enfield Arms, has spent a lifetime studying firearms, their design and functionality. He set out to address the shortcomings of the many tactical-type rifles he’s seen and used in creating a rifle which has precise tolerances where it needed them as well as room for dust to migrate, allowing it to function in the severest conditions. The result is a high-performance rifle
