Re: Christensen Arms Carbon Rifles......any input?
I have 2 guns that I built for myself and had christensen wrap them. Both have a 1.25" Lilja staight profile, and I had Christensen wrap them after i fitted the barrels and chambered them. One is a 338 Lapua A.I. and the other is a 6.5X284 and both are among my most accurate rifles. It is much cheaper to have one built or build one and send it to be wrapped and crowned there. I have not been happy with guns they have built. Some have had great luck and others haven't. It seems people either love them or hate them. They use Shilen barrels on their higher quality rifles and those seem to do a little better, but i think they'd have better luck if they switched to Lilja or Pac-Nor, or anything better that a Shilen. Theres a few thing they do on thier rifle that i do different. They only leave 1/4" of metal after the recoil lug, I have them leave 2". That way when you burn out your throat (like in my 6.5-284 for example) you can rechamber it and get a few hundred or few thousand rouns out of it without having to buy another barrel. I use a Tubb recoil lug, they use a Remington factory recoil lug. Just seems the QC isn't what most people that spend that kind of money on a rifle like that would expect. They miss the little stuff. I agree with AZPrecision you could probably get apr custom built cheaper and better, and i will go as far as adding have one built then have it wrapped by them. It's much higher quality that way.
This is my .338 Lapua A.I.
30" Lilja 1.25" 1-10 twist 6 groove no taper wrapped by Christensen
Threaded for AAC Titan direct thread can (waiting on the tax stamp)
Rem 700 action
Tubb bolt assembly
Tubb recoil lug
Jewell trigger
HS stock & bottom metal I borrowed from my 7mm Ultra, waiting on Manners T4-A and Seekins BM
Nightforce 5.5-22X56 NXS NPR-2 in Nightforce one piece Rem. mount
Weight is 12.8 pound with scope
It was just under 18 pounds before the wrap
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