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Custom Rifle accuracy expectations??
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 651935" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>I think you've given it more than the college effort. A rifle that wants to shoot should not require this level of intensive effort. You've got other rifles that shoot well, and you've demonstrated you can shoot them well. You've about done it all. If the builder is satisfied that this rifle meets his warranty standards, and you're not satisfied with the rifle - there is a point of diminishing returns on your investment of time and money. Not to mention the continuing aggravation. Shooting is <strong>supposed</strong> to be fun. This rifle is taking ALL the fun out of it, and has for an extended period of time now. So sorry. I'm feeling some anguish and all I'm doing is following your Thread.</p><p></p><p>I'd extend one last opportunity to the building gunsmith. The opportunity to change your final experience for the better. If the response is negative and non-productive, I would push the closest ejection seat button, and escape this toxic environment of pain, and agony forever and ever. </p><p></p><p>Moving forward to brighter days ahead, perhaps replace the barrel using the services of a different, accuracy-minded gunsmith. The building gunsmith may actually have done everything right. The barrel could simply be a turd. But the commonly expressed custom rifle accuracy warranties don't normally include fine print disclaimers of non-responsibility in the event the barrel smells and shoots like a turd. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Not in my experience. Even a meticulous, accuracy minded gunsmith should have some expectation that once in a blue moon, the finished product will not perform to an acceptable standard. Correcting those relatively rare defective custom rifles should not make or break the success or failure of his business. The lasting damage to a reputation isn't the fact that a poor shooter will once in a blue moon leave his custom gunsmith shop. That lasting damage is the failure to step forward and remedy the few that fail to measure up - consistent with the expressed performance warranty. This is simply the opinion of one 57 year old shooter that's been avidly shooting rifles and reloading ammunition to optimize rifle accuracy since I was 14 years old. My seasoned opinion. Anybody and everybody is entitled to their own. </p><p></p><p>I sure hoped for better. Still do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 651935, member: 4191"] I think you've given it more than the college effort. A rifle that wants to shoot should not require this level of intensive effort. You've got other rifles that shoot well, and you've demonstrated you can shoot them well. You've about done it all. If the builder is satisfied that this rifle meets his warranty standards, and you're not satisfied with the rifle - there is a point of diminishing returns on your investment of time and money. Not to mention the continuing aggravation. Shooting is [B]supposed[/B] to be fun. This rifle is taking ALL the fun out of it, and has for an extended period of time now. So sorry. I'm feeling some anguish and all I'm doing is following your Thread. I'd extend one last opportunity to the building gunsmith. The opportunity to change your final experience for the better. If the response is negative and non-productive, I would push the closest ejection seat button, and escape this toxic environment of pain, and agony forever and ever. Moving forward to brighter days ahead, perhaps replace the barrel using the services of a different, accuracy-minded gunsmith. The building gunsmith may actually have done everything right. The barrel could simply be a turd. But the commonly expressed custom rifle accuracy warranties don't normally include fine print disclaimers of non-responsibility in the event the barrel smells and shoots like a turd. :rolleyes: Not in my experience. Even a meticulous, accuracy minded gunsmith should have some expectation that once in a blue moon, the finished product will not perform to an acceptable standard. Correcting those relatively rare defective custom rifles should not make or break the success or failure of his business. The lasting damage to a reputation isn't the fact that a poor shooter will once in a blue moon leave his custom gunsmith shop. That lasting damage is the failure to step forward and remedy the few that fail to measure up - consistent with the expressed performance warranty. This is simply the opinion of one 57 year old shooter that's been avidly shooting rifles and reloading ammunition to optimize rifle accuracy since I was 14 years old. My seasoned opinion. Anybody and everybody is entitled to their own. I sure hoped for better. Still do. [/QUOTE]
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