Greg Murry overcame adversity to become the artist he is today | Excerpt

In this week's episode of the Muzzle Blasts Podcast, we sit down with Greg Murry to talk shop about his rifles, artwork and more.

Photo Courtesy of Greg’s Facebook

Photo Courtesy of Greg’s Facebook

Get to know Greg by reading this article from 2019.

Life for Greg S. Murry hasn't been easy.

Though the rifle maker and metal artist comes from a long line of pioneers, artists, authors, inventors and entrepreneurs, he wasn't given much of chance as a child.

Murry and his wife, Pat, were in Athens Friday to talk rifle-making with members of the Athens Rotary Club, but Murry also spoke about overcoming adversity and finding his niche.

“I'm dyslexic,” Murry told the crowd as he stood behind a table of his handcrafted works.

As a young boy, he couldn't read and remembers the hurt he felt when he was compared to other children in the family.

“It was a very deep, troubling point in my life,” he said.

In this episode we sit down with Greg Murry, the craftsman behind the Crockett Longrifle Project. After having built his first longrifle for his 9-year -old son in the 1990s, Greg was bitten by the bug of muzzleloader building. Having never thought himself an artist, he built 4 muzzleloaders before diving in headfirst into making original works.