I found that if you do the brass prep they all shoot. Ive dont several for buddies that couldnt get em to shoot and with some tweaking they all shot.. neck turn...mandrels all help a lot. Yes sometime you vet one that just doesnt..
Kasey
Kasey
Agree 100%, its always a risk weather building ground up $5,000 customs to a $300 savage. Barrels can go bad, anything. What you need to check on is service AFTER the sale "just in case"Not defending any company just my observations.
It is extremely difficult or impossible for anyone to build cookie cutter rifles, and not have an occasional dud. They can duplicate all process and parts, but one will be better than all the rest and one will be worse than the rest. If you are a high end rifle builder that mass produces a model in any number, some will not perform as well as others. They should all do better than standard factory rifles that are also mass produced, but this does not always happen.
Each rifle is an individual and will shoot differently with the same ammo so loading to suite the rifle is the only way to find that One load. if a rifle has a flaw that cant be overcome that is another reason to send it back.
Just saying that if you think that by buying an expensive rifle will automatically makes it a shooter, you may be disappointed.
I have worked on and seen many custom high end rifles that have not shot well that could be fixed by one change or another. they were good rifles that were just the lower end of performance as shipped.
The more rifles they make the better the odds are that they will have a problem with some.
J E CUSTOM
I have been doing some research and many posts from the past, like 2010 to as recent as 2016 seem to indicate that some of these rifles have issues. While I appreciate a sub-moa guarantee, i don't really want to buy a rifle, find that it is not a shooter and send it back for 6 months so the factory guys can fix the issues? Has CA resolved the issues it has had in the past? And as a bonus, if someone in the know can explain what the issues were and how they were resolved that would be icing on the cake. I watched videos from Jeff Brozovich over at another long range website and he really likes the ELR model and had good things to say about the accuracy. Maybe he was lucky and got a good one?
I have been doing some research and many posts from the past, like 2010 to as recent as 2016 seem to indicate that some of these rifles have issues. While I appreciate a sub-moa guarantee, i don't really want to buy a rifle, find that it is not a shooter and send it back for 6 months so the factory guys can fix the issues? Has CA resolved the issues it has had in the past? And as a bonus, if someone in the know can explain what the issues were and how they were resolved that would be icing on the cake. I watched videos from Jeff Brozovich over at another long range website and he really likes the ELR model and had good things to say about the accuracy. Maybe he was lucky and got a good one?
For my issue, it wasn't that fact that I had a dud, it's how the company handles the issue and whether or not they feed you full of lies. Every manufacture out there at some point time does have a lemon or a dud. That is definitely understandable. The real issue becomes CS.
No Broz did not get lucky, I have 4 from 338 lapua, 6.5 prc , 6.5 cm ba, and 300 ultra. All are below .50 @100.I have been doing some research and many posts from the past, like 2010 to as recent as 2016 seem to indicate that some of these rifles have issues. While I appreciate a sub-moa guarantee, i don't really want to buy a rifle, find that it is not a shooter and send it back for 6 months so the factory guys can fix the issues? Has CA resolved the issues it has had in the past? And as a bonus, if someone in the know can explain what the issues were and how they were resolved that would be icing on the cake. I watched videos from Jeff Brozovich over at another long range website and he really likes the ELR model and had good things to say about the accuracy. Maybe he was lucky and got a good one?