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- So, Brett, I live out west.
I spend a lot of time in my vehicle.
I live on a farm. And I've always been fascinated
with the idea of truck guns.
- Sure.
- A truck gun. Something that is in my truck,
I see a predator, I see a varmint,
or, you know, I just want to go out plinking.
I can grab it real quick
and stash it in the back of the truck
or in the seat next to me.
And there's a lot of different categories of truck guns.
- Yes.
- Where there's hand gun, long gun, shot gun,
whatever but, I, you guys have come out with,
what I think, might be the ultimate truck gun.
And that's the Franchi Momentum All-Terrain Elite.
- Nailed it.
- And why, I mean, give me an idea of what
you think a good truck gun is and
why you think this fits the category.
- So, you know, it honestly started cause I wanted to
make a ranch rifle style truck gun.
I didn't just want to do the same thing that
everybody has been doing for years.
- Yep.
- So, I was kind of sitting there on my couch
in the early months of Covid.
Just kind of brainstorming, what could we do?
And I started to pull inspiration from other
types of rifles.
So one of the most notable features that you'll see here
is that extra-long Picatinny rail.
- That's right.
- Right, so, I stole, stole that, borrowed
- Borrowed
- The traditional scout rifle idea.
- Scout rifle idea. That's exactly what people
see when they see that.
- So, we made an extra-long and its free-floated
so, its not going to disrupt the barrel harmonics.
- There you go.
- Uh, but it does allow people
who prefer that scout style.
- Forward optic.
- Forward mounted optics.
- Yep.
- More traditional style,
to mount it, really, in any preference they want.
- Yep.
- And frankly, you can also take a standard red dot
or ACOG and put a magnifier with that bit as well.
- That's true.
- So, that was one of the key features I took.
And then I started looking at, um,
AR style, MSR platforms. Right?
So, what you'll also notice is the
AMLOCK inserts up front, and then the QD cup mounts
on the stock and the fore end.
- Yep.
- And I wanted people to be able to run this
just like they would run,
really any of their other guns
in their portfolio.
Um, so, given just different, um,
different adjustability, different
played up to all the different uses or occasions
- Very adaptable.
- Absolutely.
- You could throw a bunch of stuff on there.
- And then you'll also note,
the flip-up front sight.
And there is a flip-up rear sight here
covered up by the scope.
- Yeah.
- But, you know, I know people have different preferences
in terms of how they like to shoot.
So, I wanted to appeal to that as well.
So, we wanted to provide a feature set
that would really would cover what we felt were
all the bases of a general use ATV, truck,
whatever gun.
For use out west, use at a farm out east,
up in the mountains, wherever.
So, obviously, you know, short barrel
played into that,
we shortened the muzzle bridge as well,
from, down from the standard one.
And then one of the most important components, to me,
was the availability of affordably priced magazines.
So, we redesigned the magazine portion of the action
on the Momentum platform.
- The regular Momentum platform, that's right.
- Right, to accept AICS magazines.
- Perfect. Cause those are so popular amongst people.
They'll have their AR as well,
but they might use the same magazines
throughout the category.
- Absolutely.
- That's right.
- And you know it comes with the ten round,
Magpul Swiss magazine.
- Well, that's great.
- Right out of the box.
Its a perfect amount for this rifle.
But, there also fairly inexpensive.
You can get them anywhere on the marketplace.
So, you bring this in your truck, you can have
three or four additional magazines with you.
You're just loaded and ready to go.
- You're ready to go. Yeah, that's great.
And that's what I really like about that platform,
its quick, its ready to go.
Lots of versatility.
Say your optic fails, whether its a red dot or this,
you can rip it off real fast, flip those up,
you've got some adaptability with the forward
and rear blunt sights.
And that's on the proven Momentum action,
that Franchi Momentum action,
which you guys introduced, has been very popular.
And just, robust, and very, very well done.
- No, that's great. It is robust, is a good word for it.
Its six-thirty bolt throw.
Which is fantastic. Its really easy to manipulate.
Its super smooth and it also features the same
Franchi Relia Trigger, that's across our entire platform.
So, that is adjustable, really, from two to four pounds
to your preferred trigger pull.
- And I bet I know the answer to this,
because of the style of gun it is,
but what chamberings is this going to be offered in?
- So, this actually came out in this past Shot Show
and we launched it in .308 and .223.
- Of course, that's the classic ranch rifle cartridges.
- What's cool about it though,
is I actually had them adjust the action
so that it can seamlessly also utilize
the NATO counterparts for those
standard American rifles.
- Oh, well, perfect.
Even more versatility
- Absolutely.
- In the ranch rifle style.
- Yep.
- Well, Brett, thanks for joining me.
I know what I'm going to be carrying this fall
when I drive around the ranch.
- I love it.
- Its going to be the All-Terrain Elite.
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