I was poking around earlier today and ran across the website for Michael Scherz...AKA Gila River Gun Works. It looks like he does nice work. Has anyone had a rifle built by Scherz? Or anyone have one of his rifles?

Please share experiences if you have any.

The silence is Deafening!

I've had some past experience with Michael but it had a strange ending that I don't blame him for. I contracted with him to build a rifle. At the time his shop was in the back of a sporting goods store. He had all my parts and I had waited about a year for the job to start. It was about my turn in line for the job to get started when they got a freak hail storm and the building collapsed. My parts were buried in the rubble along with all of Michael's stuff. It took a few months for him to get all his stuff out, relocated and set up in a new location. About the time he was going get started again his wife got transferred and they had to move to a different state. Needless to say that was going to be another 6-8 month delay and we mutually agreed to cancel the order.

I personally found Michael easy to communicate with and never had any problems getting in touch with him. He did do a set of custom bases for my 1909 M98 before he returned it and they looked exceptional.

That's my yelp report for Gila Gun works.

Terry,
I've been looking for you.

Give me call. Still have my number?

My phone took a dump. They couldn't retrieve my address book.

PM me a number and I'll call. You're cell is the only number I have.

My home # is 972 524 2247