What went wrong (assuming something did by your comments)?
Yours is the first negative review I’ve heard about him. You can PM if you care to share.
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I have no issue sharing publicly. In fact it’s good to be out there because when I sent my money and rifle in I’d assumed that I have done a satisfactory job vetting, but that wasn’t the case.
I send in a 243 lite tikka, paid for a rebarrel to 6.5cm in carbon (his barrel) to be bedded in an alpine hunter (ordered by him) and to be cerakoted.
I paid a chunk early as requested to secure my “spot”
Timeline: the rifle was expected to be complete in March. I got it for the first time in June. Not a huge deal, not something I was upset about, but a gripe.
When I initially received the rifle, it would not feed. The rear action screw only was held on by a revolution on the torque wrench, only had a little over a thread engaging the rear of the action. The inlet was messed up, and it was bedded that way. The rifle did not function as the feed lips of the mag sat low. The bed job also looked like crap.
Wanted me to ship the stock to AG, didn’t really provide a decent option for other than a refund on it or waiting again for another stock. So I ordered a krg bravo to throw it in.
Got the krg. Secured the action and could not get the rifle to shoot. 60 plus rounds of different factory, all sub par, like 2 moa bad. On top of that. With a 20moa rail and a 30mm scope (multiple) I was on the last mil to even zero. He didn’t see this as a problem as it could be solved by a 0 moa rail but I’d question a barrel that I can’t zero with an swfa 3-9 nor a nightforce shv with a 20moa rail installed. Anyways I contacted him in regards to accuracy and he had me send the rifle in with the bravo to check.
He gets the rifle, shoots it eventually, took a few months if I remember, and he decides to re barrel it. So now I wait, now till December when I receive the rifle back. I’m well over a year now. Barrel is not a tikka spec chamber, it’s got a 1.2” shank, not a huge deal but not what I ordered.
Now I had to request a refund for shipping, and the bed job. I got a partial refund after putting up a bit of a stink. He did offer to bed the krg for that end of his deal but no way was I going to have him bed my chassis after he bedded a non functioning stock.
Next barrel appeared to shoot okay, but caused strange pressure, with everything. I shot it a bunch, but could not shoot a 10 shot string without pressure. Wrecked 130 bucks in Lapua brass and shot some factory before I realized that the problem was the barrel. Iv loaded for a lot of 6.5 creedmoor and even mild loads and factory would cause stiff bolt lift by shot 7 or 8.
So i gave up and bought a prefit, screwed it on and now it’s shooting awsome. I have a 1200$ barrel sitting around that I will never use and a smith that I don’t even trust to remedy the situation. I won’t even sell the thing because I don’t believe it’s safe.
I’m not the only one that similar had happened to either. I got plenty of PMs regarding HCA.
That’s the short story.
