Adam Murano: The Volunteer Spirit at Red Cliffs
Adam Murano: The Volunteer Spirit at Red Cliffs When competitive shooter Adam Murano is on the line at a high-power match, it’s speed versus accuracy. As a mechanical engineer, Adam faces a different tradeoff: form versus function. Last year, he designed and built holders for radios on the Gators, including raised edges so the clips latch on, securing the two-ways that the RSOs use while monitoring the range. But Adam added the aesthetic: He copied the range’s font for its logo and each carbon-fiber sleeve is branded Red Cliffs. “I just like solving problems,” Adam says. An RSO himself, he knows the portables were riding in less-than-ideal locations on the John Deeres. “You couldn’t hear the radio,” he says. “We’re all deaf anyway.” This custom job would have been prohibitively expensive before 3-D printers, but Adam has three of them in the garage of his Washington County home. “You can dream something up, design it and an hour later be holding it in your hands,” he says. “That’s Star Trek-level technology. They had something called the replicator—it did exactly that.” Adam worked around the country in the tech industry for decades, moving to Southern Utah to launch a software team. Now retired, transitioning to niche manufacturing was easy. “I was restricted from doing this because I was an executive,” he says. “Now that I’m not under that constraint, I’ve been able to express myself through design.” Adam’s X-Ring Cold Case solves another problem. He and his wife compete all over the southwestern US, when it’s 115 to 120 degrees in the sun—heating up their match ammunition. That causes variations in velocity, and even blown primers. But not when each .223 cartridge is surrounded by the ice packs in Adam’s bespoke case. “The solution here is keeping bullets cool the entire time you’re shooting. They stay at a constant temperature.” Before he left his full-time job, Adam was briefly concerned about not having enough to do. “Everyone will say to you, ‘Hey, do something you love.’ What do I love? Competition shooting, off-roading and RV culture.” In addition to products for high-power shooters, Adam markets accessories for Airstream Basecamps. “I’ll get a sale before this interview ends,” he says, adding that he’s already paid for his 3-D printers. “I wake up every day, excited to follow those passions. It doesn’t feel like work, and I make money.” But he didn’t charge Red Cliffs for the radio holders, because “it’s about giving something back, and this will improve our ability to serve. I like the volunteer spirit.” Contact Adam at www.vision-vector.com for information, including his new line of Jeep over-landing products.
