Glen Morovits

The art of carving gunstocks is front and center at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum this week.

Glen Morovits, a charter member of the American Custom Gunmakers Guild, serves as artist-in-residence at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum. His gunstock expertise and artistic trade will be on display at the museum on June 20–24, from 8 a.m.–2 p.m. each day

Morovits will demonstrate basic gunstock carving and checkering. Visitors may watch Morovits at work and can also try it themselves under his guidance.

About the Artist

Morovits joined the faculty of Eastern Wyoming College in January 2019 to begin a new gunsmithing program. He graduated high school in western Wisconsin in 1977, and attended college at Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC), where he earned a degree in Gunsmithing in 1981. He then went to work at Dakota Arms in Sturgis, South Dakota.

In 1983, Morovits became a charter member of the American Custom Gunmakers Guild. In 1988, he left Dakota Arms to start his own company, where he made custom rifles for individual customers, along with manufacturing custom gun stocks for multiple national companies includig Weatherby, Browning, Beretta, Dakota, Galazan and Connecticut Shotgun. Morovits managed B Searcy & Co., where he manufactured double rifles. He began his teaching career in 2013 at TSJC, where he was a gunstock-making instructor. He admires the work and careers of many in this field and enjoys teaching to pass on the art of gunmaking.

Museum entry is included with admission to the Center of the West.

For more information visit: centerofthewest.org/event/glenn-morovits-stockmaker/