Named after a gun that still shoots straight
Bent Barrel started the way most good gear shops do — with a pile of stuff one family had already field-tested for themselves, and a hunch that other people in the bottomlands needed the same thing.
The name comes from an old side-by-side that's been bent, re-blued, and fired more times than anyone in the family can count. It still patterns true. That's the standard everything in this shop gets held to: it has to work when it actually matters, not just look good on a shelf.