There's a man in Texas. That could be a movie interline, couldn't it? There's a man in Texas that's been building mountain rifles since long before mountain rifles were cool. And today I'm going to review one. This was my first true

mountain rifle. It was also one of my very first, honest to goodness, custom rifles. I'm Joseph von Benedict and this is the

backcountry hunting podcast. Welcome to the show folks. Thanks for tuning in today.

I want to tell you about a company called Rifles Inc.

Rifles Incorporated, right? But it's the abbreviated version in the official name. This company was founded by Lex Webernick. He's the owner and the proprietor and

uniquely he builds every rifle that comes out of his shop.

It's a one-man show

and it's in many ways the best of its type because of that.

Now, Lex likes to work. of that

because of that. Now, Lex likes to work with Remington 700 and Winchester Model 70 actions

and each has, oh, specific niches, niches, however you want to pronounce it, within his line.

He builds his own composite stocks and this is a critical point.

We'll address this more later. He utilizes premium

barrels and when he mounts one of these barrels to an action, he machines all of the excess material off of it.

And unlike many other companies or gunsmiths that skeletonize an action to make it lighter.

His finished product has what I like to think of as a sculpture-like quality to the design and the machining. They're

absolutely beautiful. Some others I've seen and used and owned have an effective machining process that removed pretty much every fraction of an ounce

that could be removed from that action.

But they didn't necessarily look nearly as

aesthetic and in many cases the machining wasn't as precise and as well finished.

That's an important thing to me.

I like beautiful rifles and if I'm gonna use a cutting edge

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