Richard Was born May 3rd, 1943 in Chamblissburg, Virginia to Ruby James Moles and John Paul Franklin who owned and operated a Dairy Farm in Bedford County. Richard married Loretta Fay Clark at age 20. They had two sons, Curtis Wade and Christopher Richard.

Richard was a born hunter and traveler and never content to live his life in one place. In 1969 at 27 years of age, he moved his family to British Columbia where he worked in heavy construction, hunted and guided hunters for 30 years. In later years he took up competition rifle shooting and eventually taught himself the art of building accurate long range custom rifles. In 1992 Loretta passed away and Curtis and Chris was married with their own families. In 1999 Richard returned to Virginia to care for his aging parents. His Father had suffered a major stroke and was bedridden for the remainder of his life. In 2005 Richard married Sherry Nimmo, a Canadian from Nova Scotia.

Richard started in on building custom rifles in earnest upon his return to Virginia. He build a stock duplicator and has never looked back. He has shipped fine custom rifles to nearly every part of the world. His rifles has won many competitions and killed thousands of varmints all over North America.

Today Richard is retired, but still cranking out a few fine rifles for his customers.

Richard has written many stories from his life and will eventually post them all here if there is enough space.