Our Vision

We are for American values, for American traditions, for American families, for American veterans, for American gun rights, for American religious freedoms, for the American Constitution, for the American dream, for Americans, for America.

A message from our Founder

My grandfather, Gale McMillan, invented the fiberglass stock in the late ’60s. He pioneered the hand-laid-up manufacturing process for riflestocks, a technique that he learned from his days at Motorola. 50 years later, companies are still using these same techniques. In the last 50 years, technology has advanced, yet our industry hasn’t. When you buy a fiberglass or carbon stock, you are paying mostly for labor. Surprisingly enough, the fiberglass and carbon materials are small fractions of the total cost of the stock. That should be a sign that improvement is possible. Once I realized this insight, I took this queue and started Grayboe. I saw three things that stock companies were not doing that I believed I could do better. 1). Make stocks available, 2). Make stocks affordable, 3). Make stocks easy to buy. Along the journey, I also found that we could make stocks better. With good equipment and technology, comes repeatable quality, scale, and improved performance. Couple our technology with the brightest minds in stock making, and we’ve stumbled onto something special.

Ryan McMillan

Our Team.

Ryan McMillan

CEO / Founder

Ryan is a former Navy Seal and can kill you with his pinky. Ryan enjoys minimal sleep and has grown fond of the nervous twitch he’s developed while running Grayboe. He loves America and he also loves America.

Ryan Melancon

COO / Director of Sales

Ryan has 20 years experience in the rifle stock making industry. He goes to sleep thinking about stocks and wakes up thinking about stocks. He enjoys spending time around a campfire with a good beer and taking naps. #1 ranked ping pong player at Grayboe.

Phil Evans

Logistics & Operations Manager

Phil is a transplant from the backwoods and beaches of the Florida panhandle. He came to AZ after hearing he could get ocean front property. He's been around firearms since before he was born, but has a passion for bow hunting and fishing as well.

G. Washington

Director of Freedom

GW (Jee - Dub) is best known for his battlefield mastery, but little is known about his battle for employment at Grayboe. With no stock making experience, he was an unlikely candidate. Rolling into the interview with a wooden grill and wig, we thought snowflake. Turns out the dude's a wizard at screening woke job applicants.

Steve La Pre

PR & Comms Manager

Steve has been with Grayboe for three years. Steve is also a 20 year veteran of the fire service, serving as a Firefighter/Paramedic with the Phoenix Fire Dept. Grayboe social media guru and master wordsmith. Special skills: one liners and sarcasm.

CJB

Creative Content Contributor

Known around Grayboe as "The Radmaker", he is a creative dude who does cool creative dude stuff.  

JC

HR Manager

With many years of carpentry experience, JC is the ideal tradesman for stock making. He enjoys long walks on the beach, loves a great bottle of wine, and is a master of breathing life into once dead projects. He once went 40 days and 40 nights without a break. Dude's a beast. I don't know what we'd do without him.

Ruchir Shanbhag

Chief Chemist 

Ruchir is a Chemist, Mathematician and Physicist who is responsible for Grayboe's composite formulations. He's been known to light a part on fire, smell it, eat it and then tell us its exact composition. Ruchir considers himself a patriot and a redneck. Even developing a slight southern draw since working with Grayboe.  

Erik Sletten

Creative Content Contributor

Erik is a male nurse, the Gaylord Focker of the group, that hangs on to his last thread of masculinity by competing in any shooting competition that he can find. He also works as a marketing consultant in the firearm & outdoor industry, but that’s really not worth mentioning…and sometimes we let him paint some stocks. 

Hannah Kycek

Creative Content Contributor

Hannah AKA Hatchet Jane is a marketing extraordinaire who works remotely from the canyons of Idaho. She’s become more and more feral the farther she moves from civilization. When she isn’t shooting guns, or behind a camera you can find her searching for Jackalope’s and luring other cryptids with mid-shelf whiskey. 

Zach Davis

Creative Content Contributor

Zach grew up hunting and fishing the woods of Southeast Kansas, and eventually got into photography and videography. When he’s not out creating content for Grayboe, he’s either chasing coyotes or saving kittens from trees for the Hutchinson Fire Department.

Eric Gagnier

Creative Content Contributor

Eric jumped on the Grayboe team as a contractor. He is a creative problem solver using his love for design and photography to help build our brand. When not behind a camera, he is snowboarding, surfing and skating his way to inspiration.

Nick Setting

Creative Content Contributor

Nick is a Marketing & Business Development Consultant with an affinity for long range precision rifle shooting, and an eye for visual storytelling. He loves America, guns, and bacon. 

C. Norris

Head of Security 

After using the alias, Walker, for many years, Chuck retired as a Texas Ranger and took the lead of our security operations at Grayboe. He built the hospital he was born in, named his parents at birth, and drove his mom home after so she could rest. He was born 5/6/45 and the Nazis surrendered 5/7/45. This is not a coincidence.