Day to day journal entries from a Canadian moose hunt in Quebec. It was a 13-day, unguided, outfitted hunt. We filled both of our moose tags and had an amazing time. This is unedited, roughly worded, and a very picture heavy blog!

A story of a bison hunt in North Dakota using an 1874 Sharps rifle that I built on a C. Sharps Arms action.

Over the past four years, I’ve carried my custom-built G33/40 just about everywhere I’ve gone. Chambered in the timeless .270 Winchester, I’ve taken it all over North America. This is what I liked and didn’t like about my rifle.

We didn’t set any guidelines for what we considered a “classic” rifle. It just had to be old and have some kind of cool factor built into it. What do I consider a classic? A model that was built with quality in mind, not quantity. Pre-64 Winchesters, early Remingtons, and in my case, early 20th-century Austrian hunting rifles.

Welcome to “From the Bench!” This is a blog for my shop Highland Custom LLC. If you aren’t familiar with what a blog is, it is a place for me to write about whatever topic is on my mind at the time. This will all be firearms/hunting related, sometimes technical, sometimes not. It is a great place for people to get ideas about custom work and to inspire people to get out in the field and enjoy themselves.