Upland gun company

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Here is an interesting new offering.
www.uplandguncompany.com

[Rick Losey]

interesting - it says Italian made, I would have expected Turkey

[Dave Noreen]

Just another in the never-ending series of businesses marketing Spanish/Belgian/Italian/Turkish guns to us here in North America.

[Donald McQuade]

I believe that the owner of Pine Ridge Grouse Camp may be involved with this new company. Tough market to try and breech in todays day and age. Quite a bit of competition in the 2K - 4K side by side new gun market lately.

[Fred Slyfield]

Noticed they have both a Wyoming and Michigan addresses?

Nice looking but would definitely want to see one in person before I ordered

[Jay Gardner]

Noticed they have both a Wyoming and Michigan addresses?

Nice looking but would definitely want to see one in person before I ordered

Wyoming and Minnesota addresses, but repairs are in northern MI just outside of Traverse City.

[Kirk Potter]

I had a survey emailed to me from Project Upland a while ago.

https://projectupland.com/

Asking what one would be looking for in a ideal upland gun. I wonder if this is related to that.

[Fred Slyfield]

Being from Sheridan Wyoming I have a buddy who is going to stop by the Sheridan address and see what’s there. His grandfather was a will known custom rifle builder so if they have any guns there to look at he can give them the once over and see what they are.

[Patrick Anthony]

Looks like the MN business address is Pineridge while the WY corporate address is just a shell address (more friendly taxes and gun laws I suppose). Just a guess.

A startup importer company for an unknown Italian gunmaker will be a challenging business model. But I'm an old gun kind of shooter so I don't have a good pulse on the new gun market.

[Joe Graziano]

I think you guys are being a little harsh. From what I can see, a group of entrepreneur sxs enthusiasts already in the shooting business, have put together a pretty good business model. You can build your gun on line, lots of options, then pay a 50% deposit and it arrives in 3-4 months. Not bad at all. The maker, RFM, has been in business for over 60 years and seems to make a quality product. It also appears the son is married to one of the Fausti sisters. This has caused quite a stir on the 16ga forum. I plan to order one in 16 gauge. I was chatting with the gentleman in MN online who offered to have me come by and shoot one. It’s a bit far from Alabama but I appreciated the offer. For the options I selected for my ideal bird gun, it came to $3500. Not bad at all for a new Italian sxs built to my specifications. This is exactly the type business we should be encouraging to keep the sxs community growing. I hope they succeed.

[Scott Chapman]

I had a survey emailed to me from Project Upland a while ago.

https://projectupland.com/

Asking what one would be looking for in a ideal upland gun. I wonder if this is related to that.

I believe that the Project Upland survey was for the design of a "crowd-sourced" special variation of the CZ Bobwhite.

There is a podcast dedicated to the CZ project if you look up the Project Upland podcast page.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Agree Joe, will build one online tomorrow just for curiosity sake. Will be a 20 ga, already have about a dozen 16s. It will have st grip, 30 in barrels.

[Joe Graziano]

It’s hard to stop once you begin trying different options. I will likely order a 16 ga, 29 in barrels, straight grip, single trigger and interchangeable chokes.

[Stan Hillis]

To lump an Italian company with 60 years gunmaking experience in with the Spanish, Belgians and Turks is to ignore the individual company's abilities, IMO. That said, I think they're a bit "optimistic" in their pricing. I see nothing there that cannot be bested in price by a FAIR Italian gun, one of which I have hunted for three years, and another that I've hunted, and shot in competition, for probably 10 years.

SRH

[Kirk Potter]

I’d be interested to see one in person. Seems like you can configure a pretty nice gun for the price of a Parker Reproduction.

[Kirk Potter]

Also would be interested to see an example of grade 3 wood.

[James L. Martin]

The guns look interesting but I see no where you can order your stock dimensions. Why would you order a custom shotgun not knowing the dimensions or having to take one size fits all dimensions.

[Kirk Potter]

The guns look interesting but I see no where you can order your stock dimensions. Why would you order a custom shotgun not knowing the dimensions or having to take one size fits all dimensions.

I believe you fill out the from with what you’re wanting, and then they contact you.

[Kurt Sauers]

The guns look interesting. I'd be interested in getting a 20 ga. But am a bit hesitant. If a few guys here actually ordered one I'd be a little bit more inclined to do so.

That being said, there's a couple of English guns i'm looking at that would blow my gun fund.

[Stephen Hodges]

I wish this was a better website. The pictures of the guns are terrible. I tried building one in 28 gauge and could not get a good picture of the gun to see what it might look like. They need to get a much better site IMO.