Has anyone had any dealings with his rifles? Thoughts/opinions?
Thanks

Frank Wells of Tucson? Excellent man, excellent rifles. I'd be proud to own any of his efforts. I haven't seen him in 20 years but when I last knew him I would have loaned him $5,000 on a handshake.

AC,
Is Frank Wells any relation to Fred Wells that used be up in Prescott? I used to visit Fred and Rachel a lot when I lived down in Yuma. Of course this was all back when A&M Rifles was still in business. Seems like everytime I visited up there I somehow got stuck buying lunch or dinner for that crew. But what a group to spend time with.

Aaron

No, he's not. I knew all three before Fred passed and of the two males, Frank would have been my choice for building anything I wanted to shoot in this lifetime. He does not, of course, make rifle actions. But what he does promise to do he does well, and most important, on time. Or at least he did when I used to deal with him.

I didn't deal with him after I moved out of the U.S. because, as a citizen of the British Commonwealth, I could import very high grade rifles from England or any other commonwealth country with almost no paperwork, and duty-free to my homes in Canada.

He could have changed, but I very much doubt it.

So you used to occasionally "hang" with the A&M bunch, eh? Me too. I put Paul Marquart on his first elk, after he and Bill Atkinson split and just about 7 or 8 years before he died of leukemia. Paul was a wonderful man, and I considered him one of my very closest friends. Close enough he bought me a bunch of lunches (and pies in later years when they opened a home-made pie restraunt in a house right across the street from his). We'd sit there and drink coffee and gorge on strawberry-rhubarb pie right fresh out of the oven, while telling each other absolute truths about hunting and shooting (yeh, only 100% truths, you bet! ).

Those were wonderful days, with Ken Howell, Dave Wolfe, Dave LeGate, Fred & Rachael Wells, Paul Marquart, Bill Atkinson, the fellow who wrote the Mauser book (his name has slipped my mind for the moment), Bill Ruger, Joe and Grace DeSaye, Neal Knox, Jim Carmichael, and several others right there in the same small town...and all open to talking rifles any time at all. Sort of like living in Ferlach-West, but with lots more of better public access hunting immediately adjacent.