Walking through the doors at Corlane Sporting Goods is like taking a step back in time. The building is old and some of the mounts and fossils that adorn it's walls are even older. But amongst the guns, the fishing lures and the mounds of gear that hang from every spare bit of space is a spirit of freshness and anticipation.

Our store lies at the heart of Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. We are at the gateway to the North American Serengeti. As a hunter and sportsman we are where your dreams start and where memories that last a lifetime are left.

As you walk amongst the game heads, the photos and the people in the isles you can hear the faint sound of a milling machine coming from somewhere near the back of the store. That my friends is the sound of experience. It is the labor and heart of a thousand hunts lived and breathed in a land nearly forgotten by time.

We have the fortune, indeed the great privilege, to live, work and play at the door step to one of the world's last great wild places. And it is this ethos, this spirit of ruggedness and wildness that we hope to embody in all our rifles.

But it's not just about durability and function. A while ago someone asked me what makes our rifles different than any other custom sporter you can buy for nothing more than a bit of money. My answer to him was simply this: history. We live what we build and we build what we have lived. There is no pretense in our craft or our business. We are a result of nothing more than two or three generations of experience on the last frontier in the northern world and as a result we stand behind every rifle we build.

Corlanes and its product, Rocky Mountain Rifles, have been in the small northern British Columbia community of Dawson Creek for over forty years. It is a family business handed down from mother and father to sons and daughter.

Indeed, if this business was a child then Jack Schram would be the grandfather of it all. He bought the store in 1962 and nursed her into a healthy young business over a period of twenty eight years. Then in 1990 he sold Corlanes to his sons Tim and Rod and his daughter Brenda. Over the coming years the company developed a fine custom lightweight all weather sporting rifle that has become very popular in the Canadian west. In fact, they and their product have been profiled in Western Sportsman magazine (read the article by clicking on the link) and other fine Canadian publications.

But it's not the pomp that matters. Come and see for yourself. Because in the end the question isn't if you will buy our product and experience our world but rather... when?

Hope to see you soon,
The owners and staff of Corlane Sporting Goods and Rocky Mountain Rifles.