The Najaf Rifle

There are some events that simply require the best. When the Haley Strategic Partners team reached out to me last year ahead of the 20 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Najaf I knew that I needed to pour everything I had in me into this patch. After a several-hour long FaceTime conversation with Travis as he recounted the story front to back to me, I was even more excited to get started.

I'm relatively quick at penning out line art these days, but this project still racked up hours upon hours of detailed illustration work. That rail - that rail was no joke. It's rare that a mold design takes just as much time as the initial artwork, but this was absolutely one of the most challenging molds to pull off in my entire career. Photos simply do not do this patch justice.

I'm not the first person to do gun patches, and the craft will live on long after I move on with my career. But when I look back on my portfolio, one thing I will be forever proud of is the amount of time and effort I put into making sure that they honorably represent the brands and stories that they are commissioned for.

I'm thankful to Travis and his team for trusting me with this project, it is hands down one of the highlights of my career.

If you want to hear more about the Battle of Najaf, you can hear it from Travis himself on the The Shawn Ryan Show episode 172 released earlier this month.