BAR Rifle Replicas
Exact scaled copies of the famed BAR used by the Marine Raiders in the Pacific theater during World War II.
Each BAR is cast in bronze, with gold or Remington Bronze patina. Each cast rifle comes stamped with its own serial number.
MADE TO ORDER
Materials: Bronze and Patina
Sculptor: Douglas Granum
3D Printing: Form 3D
Casting, Patina: Parks Foundry
Related: Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
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Each BAR Rifle is crafted made to order. All proceeds beyond production costs go to Marine Raiders Foundation.
Project Team
Douglas Granum
Douglas Granum
This is not work; but is truly a labor of love. While I am the artist, none of this could not have been accomplished without the help of a number of organizations and individuals.
David Wright
David Wright
David Wright is a multi talented urban designer,landscape architect and artist/illustrator of the built, everyday, and inner environments. David brings concepts, schematics, and plans to life.
Form 3D Foundry
Form 3D Foundry
Grounded in traditional artistic principals, the Form 3D team is committed to exploring, embracing and utilizing technology to propel sculptural advancements.
Scott Norris
Scott Norris
With over 20 years of making interactive things, Scott brings unique technical and design skills to the team. He makes sure that the whole world can see our work.
Parks Foundry
Parks Foundry, Enterprise Oregon
Parks Bronze Foundry is a full service bronze casting and moding foundry in response to fine art sculptors, art collectors, and art appreciation.
John Moses Browning
Much of the fame of today’s sporting BAR began through the fame of the original military BAR designed by John M. Browning near the end of World War I. It is considered one of the first, and certainly one of the most effective, of all the automatic centerfire “light machine guns” ever made.
Articles
War Dogs: Part II: How I Became a Marine Raider
I am flying in the navigator’s seat of a B-25 Mitchel looking down at a calm turquoise South Pacific. We fly low bucketing and creaking, it’s a plane with a lot of hours, through heat waves of turbulence. We lose rivets on occasion and have bullet holes in our...
War Dogs: Part I: War No Peace
The most hurtful circumstance about sorrow is the way it invites the crowding in of memories of happier times for poignant comparison with one’s present misery, and I was miserable. I am standing, anxiously dancing really, on a clammy flak jacket in the bottom of a...
MR / NCT Monument: Historic Names & Medallions
In the process of designing a piece such as the Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers Monument many ideas are explored through the creative process. Names & Medallions Design In the case of the Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers monument we have been working...
Proposed Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talker Monument: Historic and Modern Soldiers
In the most recent discussions of the design for this monument, it was expressed by the Marine Raider Association that they would like to see a modern MARSOC in contemporary gear and uniform as a part of this monument. Early on the discussion circled around modern...
Hey Joe, did you print that BAR?
This was written in conjunction with the Marine Raiders and Code Talkers Monument project. All of my life I have been involved with rifles and pistols. Like most everything in my life, I taught myself. I taught myself to row and understand the sea, to hunt and finally...
The Navajo Weapon
This article was published in The Raider Patch, Issue Q1 2020 (Part 1) and Q2 2020 (Part 2) This was written in conjunction with the Marine Raiders and Code Talkers Monument project. About four years ago a well-dressed older Two Star General came up to me at a party...
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