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Hey, welcome back to Gun Talk, Tom Gresham here.

If you want to join us, just give me a call 866 Talk Gun or Tom Talk Gun.

We like to talk about cool guns, old guns, new guns, doesn't matter. As long as they shoot, because, you know, with it, Townsend Wayland, only accurate rifles are interesting. Now we're going to bring in a friend of mine who is a real rifle guy. He shoots everything. Yeah, he's got, you know, a background as a police officer and army officer and all of that. But, man, he likes his rifles. Richard, man, is, uh, Richard, you're writing for Field and Stream and seems like everybody else these days. Yeah, I'm a shooting editor at Field and Stream, but I also do some stuff for the NRA, Gun Digest and OSG every now and the end. A freelancer, you got a freelancer with kids, you got to work a lot, you know. It's like my wife's parents when she said, well, he's going to be a freelance writer. She said, in their minds, they're thinking, no steady paycheck. That's exactly what it means. I got to correct you on something, though.

You said I was an Army officer. I was an enlisted man. Oh. Please don't cross that line with me. I'm going to get you in trouble, aren't I? Yeah, yeah. I'll be on one of these shows where it's Stolen Valor. Stolen Valor show. There you go. There you go. All right, we've got to talk about something that's near and dear to both our hearts.

You were a good friend of Melvin Forbes for several decades. The West Virginia Gunsworth Genius Savant, who created the ultralight arms and then the new ultralight arms rifle company. And, of course, now you've been working with Wilson Combat because you actually put the deal together for Bill Wilson to buy new ultralight arms, didn't you? I don't know that I'd say put the deal together. He asked me, he called me and asked me if I thought Melvin would sell. And I said, I'll call Melvin and talk to him. And me and Melvin had a long talk.

And he said, tell Bill, if he wants to talk to me, he's got to come to West Virginia. So I was kind of a go-between. But I didn't put the deal together. All right. But Melvin was, you know, he was ready to sell. And I guess we got to back up because, I mean, we're going to talk about a new cool rifle. Let's just let people know what's coming.

We've got an amazing, very incredibly short-run rifle we're going to tell them about.

But give them the quick highlights on the ultralight arms rifle, or I guess the line of rifles,

all these different models.

Well, about 1983, Melvin built a lightweight rifle for

a customer. And while he was

doing that, he thought, I think I can make one a

lot lighter. And he told a bunch

of guys at Deer Camp, he was going to build a five

pound bolt action rifle

would shoot. And they told him he was full of

sheep dip. That was Melvin's exact words.

And he worked on it and had troubles with the stock and worked with some guys from the Allegheny Ballistics Lab.

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