entoptics
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EDIT: Full update on the final outcome on page 4. It's not good. And now that they've had a chance to make it right, and failed, the rifle is a Savage 110 High Country (and it's actually rifles, plural!).
Figured I'd post up my sorrows. I'll refrain from mentioning the name until I have some feedback from the manufacturer...
Rifle is brand new, upper end of their line (over $1100 MSRP). I picked it up this afternoon and took it straight to my wheat field. 6 hours later, it's going in the box to be sent back to the mothership.
Noticed that I was having weird "gritty" extraction, but chalked it up to no lube on the bolt. Nope...
When I got home and looked at the brass in good light, I found this...
There's a pair of horrific burrs near the breach face, which caused the nasty gouges you can see at the base of the brass above the belt.
As you can also see, there's more rings than a tree. They're clearly visible with the naked eye, and so pronounced that they're marking up the brass from base to shoulder.
This seems WAY beyond "Monday Morning Manufacture". I swabbed the barrel before shooting it, and it was clearly test fired (also some soot on the muzzle brake). I can't believe their tooling could even produce something this awful, LET ALONE that their QC would let something like this escape out in the wild to be sold to some poor sucker like me...
Needless to say, I'm pretty freeking bummed right now.
Figured I'd post up my sorrows. I'll refrain from mentioning the name until I have some feedback from the manufacturer...
Rifle is brand new, upper end of their line (over $1100 MSRP). I picked it up this afternoon and took it straight to my wheat field. 6 hours later, it's going in the box to be sent back to the mothership.
Noticed that I was having weird "gritty" extraction, but chalked it up to no lube on the bolt. Nope...
When I got home and looked at the brass in good light, I found this...
There's a pair of horrific burrs near the breach face, which caused the nasty gouges you can see at the base of the brass above the belt.
As you can also see, there's more rings than a tree. They're clearly visible with the naked eye, and so pronounced that they're marking up the brass from base to shoulder.
This seems WAY beyond "Monday Morning Manufacture". I swabbed the barrel before shooting it, and it was clearly test fired (also some soot on the muzzle brake). I can't believe their tooling could even produce something this awful, LET ALONE that their QC would let something like this escape out in the wild to be sold to some poor sucker like me...
Needless to say, I'm pretty freeking bummed right now.
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