ABOUT

OUR STORY

Engineered upgrades for America’s bread-and-butter rifles.

After decades designing and managing large infrastructure projects, Dennis Crownover returned to the area where he grew up hunting and fishing along Idaho’s Salmon River. In 2016, he founded Salmon River Armory to combine his background in engineering and manufacturing with a lifelong interest in hunting, shooting, and rifle performance.

At Salmon River Armory, we’re hunters and shooters ourselves, and we got tired of seeing the best accessories and upgrades designed primarily for expensive and custom rifles. Millions of hunters rely on factory rifles like the Ruger American, Savage Axis and 110, and Tikka T3x—and we believe those rifles deserve purpose-built equipment too.
So that’s what we build.

From our shop in Salmon, Idaho, we design and manufacture model-specific upgrades around the rifle itself—its stock geometry, existing mounting points, and how it will actually be used in the field. Rather than adapting universal products, we use modern design and manufacturing methods to create components that fit the factory rifle the way they should.

We put just as much engineering into making our products easy to install. From utilizing existing stock features to developing purpose-built mounting systems, drill guides, and hardware, our goal is to make installation straightforward for the average rifle owner without specialized tools or gunsmithing experience.

From Arca and Picatinny rails to the new products we're developing, our focus is simple: precise fit, practical performance, straightforward installation, and American manufacturing—bringing the engineering and capability normally associated with high-end equipment to the factory rifles people actually own and use.