Help! seekins vs fierce vs others..

Looking for a mid level elk gun. Trying to stay below $4000. What are you experiences and opinions? Thanks

I have a Seekins PH2 in 7mmRM. Love it! It prints sub MOA with 160 Sierra GK's and 162 Hornady SST's and ELD-X's. It hates the 175gr Speer Grand Slams. The barrel is a 1:8" twist, so it is able to shoot the longer (heavier) pills just fine, and the magazine has plenty of room to allow for handloads with longer COAL. It's got a Seekins brake on it and my shoulder is fine after a day of ladder testing. I think the 7mm/.284 cal. cartridges are the sweet spot.
As for the glass, it's a Leupold VX2 - 6-18x40 in Warne rings.
As for your other choices, I've got no opinion, as I have no experience.

d_wit22 said:

Looking for a mid level elk gun. Trying to stay below $4000. What are you experiences and opinions? Thanks

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Check this out >>>https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/all-my-guns.367237/

At this price point, I'd go full custom, where I get to pick and choose components.

Great review. I'm gonna have to pick one of them up. What's the best distributor around? Or just order from midway?

Is $4000 your total budget or just the rifle including scope? What calibers do you already own or what are you thinking?

There was just a thread on this. The general consensus is the seekins is the easy button if you don't do a full or semi custom.

cajun said:

There was just a thread on this. The general consensus is the seekins is the easy button if you don't do a full or semi custom.

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Seekins is going to be your best choice for off the shelf Rifle some of my hunting buddy's use them and they shoot great as for fierce I'm not a big fan I have had 3or 4 of there Rifels there new action I like 70% bolt throw with 3 lugs but there stocks don't take much of the recoil out good luck on your choices and remember it's not so much the rifle as much as it is the guy pulling the trigger

What constitutes an elk rifle? What style of hunting you planning? Why do you want to spend $4k on it?

The other option is get a custom action and a prefit barrell, stock put it together yourself. For the money the seekins is hard to beat.

Stick with the seekins

Philward said:

What constitutes an elk rifle? What style of hunting you planning? Why do you want to spend $4k on it?

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Sorry to ruffle your feathers. This is just the range I was looking at purchasing a firearm. An elk rifle is a rifle that can kill an elk effectively even if Shot placement is a little off.

d_wit22 said:

Looking for a mid level elk gun. Trying to stay below $4000. What are you experiences and opinions? Thanks

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I needed another rifle like I needed a hole in my head but I bought the first Fierce rifle to arrive in Fairbanks because I liked it. Welp fast forward and today I love it. ½ MOA all day long.