Christensen Rifles QC issues??? Anyone heard this??

[pickardjw]

I was also considering one a few years back pretty seriously, but the volume of QC issues and ammo picky-ness complaint posts online were enough to steer me away. Re-reading a few threads it seems like 50/50 guys getting good shooters and guys that have to send them back or run a lot of troubleshooting.

Seems to be a common theme in that neck of the woods in Utah with Fierce being down the road 

[jjhunter]

My Ridgeline shoots excellent.   I’m way more nervous about the Fierce 22 CM that I ordered on Friday. 

[Karl Blanchard]

My Ridgeline shoots excellent.   I’m way more nervous about the Fierce 22 CM that I ordered on Friday. 

as long as you paid for the barrel rifling you should be good  😬

[jjhunter]

My Ridgeline shoots excellent.   I’m way more nervous about the Fierce 22 CM that I ordered on Friday. 

as long as you paid for the barrel rifling you should be good  😬

I already bought a Proof backup just in case🤣

[steeleywhopper]

I bought a Mesa .300 win mag from the classifieds here and it shoots way better than I can. Zero issues and drives tacks with factory 180 gr Accubonds.

[huntnnw]

I have a 300prc from them and shoots better than any gun i have owned.

[Skunkedoutdoors]

Some people just hate them. id be willing to bet most of the time that it’s “operator error” and they end up blaming the rifle for sub par groups. I have an original ridgeline and the newer fft. Both are absolute tac drivers.

[Robinhood]

I have had a Mesa in 6.5 Creedmoor for 4 years. I love it sub 1" with factory ammo and zero problems. The best factory trigger I have ever felt.

[b23]

My only experience with CA was four or five years ago I bought a new Ridgeline 6.5 PRC.  Got it home and scoped the barrel.   Upon looking down it with the borescope was my initial response.  I've seen new factory barrels that were worse but they were also on three hundred dollar rifles too.  I wasn't expecting it to be as perfect as a good custom barrel but I certainly wasn't expecting it to look the way it did either.  There were a lot of tool marks pretty much the whole length of the barrel.  I've had factory barrels that looked like sheeott before and though they were a copper fouling hog still shot relatively well but this was back when the only brass available for the 6.5 PRC was in loaded ammo and IF you could get your hands on any it was ridiculously priced so I didn't really want to burn up $80 a box ammo seeing "if" the thing would shoot.  I called up CA explained what was going on and how it looked and they were extremely good about it.  Gave me the option of shooting it first to see if it would shoot or they'd send out a FedEx label and I could send it back for them to take a look at it.  I opted to send it back.  Few days after shipping it off I got a call from them telling me they'd taken a look at it and agreed with my thoughts and apologized for it.  I think it was around three or four weeks later I got an email telling me they'd replaced the barrel and shot it at their test range with both Hornady 143 ELD-X and 147 ELD-M ammo with the 143's right at .5 and the 147's a little under that.  Got it back scoped it up.  I had the same ammo and shot both as well.  Pretty much like the test targets they sent back with it the 143 stuff went right at .5 and the 147's shot under that.

I'd be lying if I didn't admit I was initially a little pizzed off with how the barrel scoped but CA was stellar about taking care of it and making it right.  It wasn't necessarily the best way to start but we all know shhhtuff happens and based on my experience with them I certainly can't say anything bad about them.

[Mtnwalker]

Aren't they the ones that got their hand slapped for sending out a gun with no rifling that magically had a "test" target with a nice little clover leaf group included with it? 

[jrebel]

Aren't they the ones that got their hand slapped for sending out a gun with no rifling that magically had a "test" target with a nice little clover leaf group included with it? 

I thought it was Fierce that was sending rifles out with smooth bore barrels. 

[Mtnwalker]

Aren't they the ones that got their hand slapped for sending out a gun with no rifling that magically had a "test" target with a nice little clover leaf group included with it? 

I thought it was Fierce that was sending rifles out with smooth bore barrels.

You might be right, I know they were too but I had heard something about CA on a podcast. Can't find anything online about it though so maybe I'm spreading disinformation   

[Bob33]

Interesting review.

[jrebel]

This is why I am so skeptical in giving them a second chance.  This is the exact thing I found with the first one Christensen I owned.....only liked one bullet.  Makes me wonder if their carbon fiber barrels are just garbage.   

[Buckjunkie]

I have two Christensen rifles. Both shoot well. I had a problem with the newest one, a 7 PRC in the FFT. The factory installed muzzle brake was cross threaded. I got it off using a barrel vise and a pipe wrench, but the threads were mostly gone.

Christensen replaced the barrel in less than a week no questions asked.