Modern Outfitters MR1

They’ve Tiptoed into the Precision Rifle World, but their Latest Entry is Worthy of Serious Consideration

- Iain Harrison

Here at RECOIL, we try to bring you content that’s just a little out of the mainstream. For example, for this issue we could have given you a review extolling the virtues of the Ruger Precision Rifle — just like every other gun publication and web outlet in existence. Good as Ruger’s product is though (and it’s currently a victim of its success, reportedly being backordered by 30,000 units as of press time), we figured that you’d rather hear about a scrappy little company that’s doing its own thing — and doing it pretty well.

Modern Outfitters is in a growth phase at the moment, having carved out a name for itself in the Southeast as a manufacturer of quality ARs. Not content with simply building guns, it adopted the Apple model of distribution and decided that a chain of gun stores was the future. They’ve recently opened their first retail space in Dallas, which is spacious, well laid out, welcoming, and not staffed by fat, grumpy old bastards whose mission in life is to foist their opinions onto the customer, while telling war stories of their time in the 2/47 space shuttle door gunner battalion. Sound familiar?

The MR1 is its first venture into the precision rifle realm, so we took one of its preproduction test mules and put it through the wringer.

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