Arken has dominated the affordable PRS scope market with tactical scopes under $600. Their founders are long-range shooting enthusiasts and this passion drove them to create Outlier, a rifle component company. At SHOT 2025 they won the award for most innovative rifle with their new Backdraft suppressor barrel.
The Backdraft design isn’t limited to bolt-action rifles. At their booth in the Casesar’s Forum, they allowed visitors to at go to a portable indoor shooting range and test out the Backdraft on an Outlier Atlas AR9 PCC rifle. The Backdraft suppressor is a carbon fiber barrel sleeve and a short screw-on barrel can. The design has the side benefit of reducing heat build-up on the screw-on can.
I confirmed this with some trepidation by touching the can after running a mag of 9mm through the Atlas. To my genuine surprise, it felt only about as warm as a human hand. I’ve held hotter coffee cups. You can buy the entire rifle or just the Backdraft barrel from Outlier.