Precision Hunting Supply: Accurizing Factory Rifles Into Long-Range Hunting Systems

From Fire Chief to Long-Range Outfitter

Paul Bourgeois didn't come up through a machine shop or a competition circuit. He spent 25 years in the fire service, working his way up to fire chief at Superstition Fire and Medical District covering Apache Junction and Gold Canyon. That's not the résumé you expect behind a rifle-building operation, but it explains a lot about how Precision Hunting Supply actually runs its business — with the same emphasis on procedure, verification, and not leaving things to chance that you'd want from someone who spent a career managing emergencies.

Bourgeois transitioned out of the fire service into guiding big-game hunters full-time, and it was that guiding work that generated the company. He was already running long-range hunting equipment in the field, testing what worked and what didn't when a shot had to connect at distance on a live animal rather than a target berm. When he decided to start selling the gear he'd been relying on himself, Precision Hunting Supply was born — first as an affiliate of the well-known Best of the West brand, operating as Best of the West Arizona (BOTWAZ) starting in 2019, before rebranding under its own name and opening a brick-and-mortar retail location in Mesa in August 2023.

That Best of the West lineage matters more than it might first appear. Best of the West, in partnership with Huskemaw Optics, essentially popularized the modern "long-range hunting system" concept nationally — pairing an accurized rifle, a proven hunting bullet, and a scope with a turret cut to real, verified drop data rather than a generic ballistic calculator output. PHS didn't invent that philosophy. It inherited it, and it has spent the years since building a Mesa-based operation around applying it to production rifles rather than only full custom builds.

The Accurizer Service: Where the Real Work Happens

PHS's flagship offering isn't a rifle model — it's a process. The company calls it the Accurizer Service, and the pitch is blunt: too many hunters spend serious money on tags, fuel, and lodging only to discover in camp that their rifle isn't shooting the way they assumed. The Accurizer Service exists to catch that failure before opening day, not the week before the hunt.

Mechanically, this kind of work follows the same fundamentals that have defined rifle accurizing for decades — bedding the action into the stock, whether pillar or full glass bedding, to remove stress points that cause a barreled action to flex differently shot to shot; truing the receiver face and lapping the bolt lugs so they bear evenly; and then running disciplined load development matched to the specific barrel's twist rate and the ballistic coefficient of a chosen hunting bullet. None of that is exotic. What separates an outfit like PHS from a rifle owner doing it themselves at home is that PHS treats it as a verification process with a defined endpoint — a scope turret dialed to data that's actually been shot and confirmed, not calculated and assumed.

That distinction — verified dope versus calculated dope — is the same one that Huskemaw, Kenton Industries, and Gunwerks built entire businesses around in the long-range hunting space. It's a different discipline than PRS-style competition shooting, where mil-based turrets and rapid target transitions dominate. A hunting rifle typically gets one shot at an animal that may be quartering, moving, or standing at a range the shooter estimated under pressure. The system PHS sells — accurized rifle, matched ammunition, custom turret — is built around maximizing the odds that single shot counts.

A Rifle Lineup Built Around Verified Performance

PHS's approved rifle list reads less like a catalog of custom actions and more like a survey of what's currently strong in factory long-range hunting rifles, run through the Accurizer process and stamped RTK by PHS. The Fierce Carbon Rogue 6.5 PRC posts a verified 0.418 MOA, which is a genuinely tight number for a carbon-wrapped hunting-weight rifle in a cartridge built for retained energy at distance. The Bergara Sierra Wilderness in 22 Creedmoor comes in at 0.437 MOA, showing the same accurizing discipline applied to a lighter-recoiling platform suited to hunters who want flat trajectories without punishing shoulders.

Other entries on the list carry verified MOA figures in the 0.5 to 0.8 range — the Sig Sauer Cross Sawtooth in 300 PRC at 0.517, the PHS SEMI CUSTOM 7 PRC at 0.54, and a handful of Ruger American Gen II and Seekins Precision builds landing between 0.6 and 0.8 MOA. These aren't hand-lapped, blueprinted PRS race guns chasing sub-quarter-MOA numbers on a bench rest — they're hunting rifles, meant to be carried up a mountain and shot cold-bore at an animal, and the accuracy standards reflect that context honestly rather than chasing a number that doesn't matter in the field.

A meaningful share of the list — including the Seekins Precision Havak PH3 300 PRC and several Bergara and Curtis Custom entries — still shows as unverified MOA, which is worth being straightforward about. That's not a mark against the builder; it reflects rifles that are in the pipeline or awaiting confirmed range data rather than a claim being dodged. PHS's own marketing leans hard on verification as the point of the business, so an honest accounting of what's confirmed and what isn't yet is consistent with that stated philosophy rather than undermining it.

Beyond the Bolt Gun: Systems, Optics, and the Wider Shop

Huskemaw Optics sits at the center of how PHS frames its rifle systems, and for good reason — Huskemaw's Blue Diamond line was the scope that, by the company's own account, revolutionized long-range hunting optics with its HuntSmart reticle and custom-dialed turrets. PHS sells these scopes as part of the same package as its accurized rifles, with turrets cut to match a specific rifle-and-load combination rather than a stock dial. That's the connective tissue between the shop's rifle-building work and its optics business: neither piece means much without the other being verified against real ballistic data.

PHS's work isn't limited to bolt-action long-range rigs, either. The shop also modernizes lever-action rifles for close-range and nighttime predator and hog hunting — one documented build takes a Marlin 1895 SBL in .45-70 Government and adds Ranger Point Precision furniture, an MDT grip, an ARCA rail, a bipod-ready Picatinny rail, a Holosun HE510 red dot, and an InfiTac FMP13 thermal unit. It's a different problem than dialing a 700-yard mule deer shot, but the same underlying instinct — take a proven platform and outfit it precisely for the job the hunter actually needs it to do.

The Mesa storefront, open Tuesday through Saturday at 1058 N. Higley Road, backs all of this with a full-service retail operation: ammunition, shooting bags, rangefinders, tripods and bipods, a Veteran Program and an Outfitter Program, private and group shooting instruction, and an in-house media arm producing hunting content under the name The Bloodline. Bourgeois also stays active with conservation groups including the Arizona Mule Deer Organization, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Safari Club International, the Mogollon Sporting Association, and the Mule Deer Foundation — a set of affiliations that tracks with a business built by someone who spent years guiding hunters before he ever sold them a rifle.