Vudoo Gun Works

In the early 2010s, gunsmith Mike Bush was buying up discontinued Remington 40X single-shot .22 rifles and converting them into repeaters, feeding from a magazine of his own design that he produced on a 3D printer. The work built him a reputation among rimfire shooters years before Vudoo Gun Works existed as a company. Bush's actual goal was bigger: he wanted Remington to bring an updated, repeater-based version of the 40X to market based on his designs. Remington passed on the project.

Bush found his opening elsewhere. He partnered with Paul and Jill Parrott to found Vudoo Gun Works in St. George, Utah, in 2017, and is credited in the company's own materials as a design engineer and co-founder alongside the Parrotts. Rather than modify existing 40X actions, the new company built a rimfire receiver from scratch: the V-22, a controlled-round-feed, Remington 700-footprint .22 LR repeater action with a one-piece bolt and an integral recoil lug. It fed from a proprietary AICS-pattern detachable magazine, so a V-22 could sit in the same stocks and chassis and run the same triggers as a centerfire PRS rifle.

The timing mattered. Precision rifle competition, particularly the field-style disciplines built around PRS and NRL, had begun to spawn a rimfire offshoot as shooters looked for a cheaper, quieter way to train and compete at shorter ranges. The V-22 gave that market a rifle that handled like its centerfire counterpart rather than a scaled-down sporting gun, and it sold well enough after its 2017 launch that other manufacturers followed with their own 700-footprint rimfire actions. Vudoo added the single-shot V-22S in October 2020 for benchrest and F-Class shooters, along with a long-action V-22M variant for .17 HMR and .22 WMR.

Vudoo moved beyond rimfire rifles in the early 2020s. The Möbius, introduced in fall 2022, was the company's first handgun: a 1911 with a two-piece stainless frame, milled in halves and joined by electron-beam welding, a method borrowed from aerospace work rather than traditional 1911 gunsmithing. At the SHOT Show in January 2023, Vudoo followed with the Priest, a double-stack 2011-pattern pistol built on the same approach, and the Morpheus, its first centerfire rifle, built around American Rifle Company's Coup de Grâce action.

The company changed hands in July 2024, when an outside investment group acquired Vudoo and installed Jacob Herman as CEO. Paul and Jill Parrott, who had built the brand from Bush's original concept, left around the same time. Dealer and customer reports describe a difficult transition over the following months, including slowing order fulfillment and the St. George facility's lease lapsing in spring 2025. Vudoo paused production and, by August 18, 2025, had consolidated headquarters and manufacturing into a facility in Prague, Oklahoma.

For a collector, Vudoo's history is unusually compressed: a company that redefined a niche in the market within a few years of its founding, expanded into handguns and centerfire rifles within a decade, then changed ownership and relocated within a single year. The V-22 and its descendants remain fixtures in NRL22 and NRL22X competition, and the platform is still widely credited with legitimizing precision rimfire as a discipline. What the Oklahoma-based company produces now, and how closely it holds to the tolerances and reputation Bush and the Parrotts built, is still being established.