Prairie Gun Works Defence Technologies Inc., also known as PGWDTI, is a small company in Winnipeg

Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

, Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 that specializes in building state of the art military grade sniper

Sniper

A sniper is a marksman who shoots targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the capabilities of regular personnel. Snipers typically have specialized training and distinct high-precision rifles....

 weapon systems, sound suppressors and associated components.

They also build civilian marksmen and hunting rifle

Rifle

A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile , imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the...

s, such as the M18Ti.

Heavy military military grade sniper weapon systems include the .50 BMG

.50 BMG

The .50 Browning Machine Gun or 12.7×99mm NATO is a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 caliber machine gun in the late 1910s. Entering service officially in 1921, the round is based on a greatly scaled-up .30-06 cartridge...

 LRT-3 Takedown System and the Timberwolf rifle family intended for super magnum chamberings.
Typical Timberwolf series rifles are the .408 Chey Tac

.408 Chey Tac

The .408 Cheyenne Tactical is a specialized rimless, bottlenecked, centerfire cartridge for military long-range sniper rifles that was developed by Dr. John D. Taylor and machinist William O. Wordman...

 Timberwolf, the .416 PGW Timberwolf,which is chambered for a .408 Chey Tac variant, and the .338 Lapua Magnum Timberwolf.

The Coyote 7.62 SWS is a smaller military grade sniper weapon system intended for medium sized cartridges.

In May 2005, PGWDTI was awarded a $4.5M contract by the Department of National Defence (Canada) to provide an unknown number of C14 sniper rifles

C14 Timberwolf rifle

The C14 Timberwolf MRSWS is a manually operated bolt action sniper rifle built by the Canadian arms company PGW Defence Technologies Inc...

 chambered for the .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge.
Working with Colt Canada

Colt Canada

Colt Canada is a firearms manufacturer owned by US based Colt and located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.The company is a defense contractor that manufactures and supplies small arms to the Canadian Forces and Canadian law enforcement agencies, as well as defense research & development, training,...

, PGWDTI supplied the C14 Timberwolf rifles, ammunition

Ammunition

Ammunition is a generic term derived from the French language la munition which embraced all material used for war , but which in time came to refer specifically to gunpowder and artillery. The collective term for all types of ammunition is munitions...

, magazines, telescopic sight

Telescopic sight

A telescopic sight, commonly called a scope, is a sighting device that is based on an optical refracting telescope. They are equipped with some form of graphic image pattern mounted in an optically appropriate position in their optical system to give an accurate aiming point...

s, bipod

Bipod

A bipod is a support device that is similar to a tripod or monopod, but with two legs. It provides significant stability along two axes of motion .-Firearms:...

s, and carrying cases.

External links

• PGWTDI Website
• Colt Canada > PGWDTI Timberwolf Tactical (No Longer Sold by Colt Canada, Effective 2010-09)