Christensen arms Ridgeline

[J3n]

I would think any smith would do that. If they don't then they don't have any better customer service than CA.
Shep

You have a great customer focused approach. Not all have that. And I've seen plenty of examples from one smith where they just always blame the customer and won't provide any guarantee or support for their barrels.

I'm working with Nick @ Straight Jacket now and I know he will stand behind his products. Highly recommended.

 

[gslindy]

You're going to love the 6.5-284. Tack driver and very mild recoil. The 140gr Berger VLD seems to be a perfect storm in the 6.5. Great accuracy and performance. Use RL23......very temp stable and will get you 3000 fps. I either shoot the VLD or the 124 gr Hammer Hunter monolithic bullet. It's a laser

6.5x284 is my favorite and I own CM and PRC

 

[gslindy]

Joe your the lucky one. More than likely your straight jacket is going to hammer. The CA rifles are very hit or miss. Do a web search on the problems. If you get a good one they are a fantastic deal. But when you get a bad one you might as well move it to a new home. I have 2 customers who got one each from Cabela's and both have been back to CA twice. It looks like they did nothing to either one and sent them back. Twice. My one customer is so mad he wanted to cut it up on my band saw and send it back to them in a little box. I did talk him out of it. It shoots so poorly he didn't have confidence to shoot an elk. That's a pretty big target. Took his cheap Howa instead because it shoots good.
Straight jacket does good work you will be happy. 6.5x284 is a great cartridge.
Shep

Ordered my wife a CA and it came with the wrong color stock, even though the box and paperwork all showed the correct color. She hasn't shot it yet (arrived 2 days ago) but I hope their attention to detail on the build is better than their labeling.

 

[highdrum]

You have a great customer focused approach. Not all have that. And I've seen plenty of examples from one smith where they just always blame the customer and won't provide any guarantee or support for their barrels.

I'm working with Nick @ Straight Jacket now and I know he will stand behind his products. Highly recommended.

Nick's a good dude, he just built a rifle for me, and I had to do some the finish work myself. He offered to take care of it, but I wasn't gonna ship it back to WYO and wait for the lil stuff to get fixed and shipped back, would probably been 10 days. I know he's way down on staff due to Cv19, but the gun shouldn't have left the shop like it did. Nick's a good guy and had a good reputation for getting it right and the rifle hammers, so he'll probably do more work for me.

 

[Jnm300ultra]

I just bought a new Ca Ridgeline in 280 Ackley not impressed at all. The chamber is so bad the gunsmith and I could see nick in the chamber face, or breach. The extractor is hitting the face of the barrel. The gunsmith was the one who did the FFL transfer paper work. I didn't see any of the problems till I tried to put a new piece of brass in the chamber. Then there is a chunk taken out of the neck area (freebore). I will try and attach pictures of the problems. I saw all these things with my bore scope Testlong. I had him test fire the rifle 2 rounds the brass came out fine no real scratches and no sign of pressure. I'm just going to shoot it and see how it patterns not groups.
Jason

Jnm that it the typical poor machine work I've seen in them. No attempt to dress up those cuts at all. The black mark in the throat looks like lint from a patch maybe. The black looks like shadow to me. These are a few shanks I've done look at the difference.
Shep

Shep I have had a few smiths do barrel jobs and nothing that looked like what I saw. The barrels that you showed looked great. The first picture might be lint, I wasn't sure I never cleaned the barrel before the bore scope pictures. That's why I didn't think it's lint. The barrel jobs that I have had done were with a cone face. I Borden Rimrock BRLXD and a Nesika. When you look at the pictures the shiny spot in the 4 th picture at 6 o'clock I think it's the extractor that is to long, sometimes is rubbing there. All of those pictures where before I had the rifle text fired. The new nosler brass is tight with the firing spring removed. Maybe I need to resize the brass before I load it. I don't know what to think. I'm going to just shoot the rifle and see what it shoots like.
Jason

 

[Jnm300ultra]

Sorry for reposting my first post. I didn't see it was still attached.
Jason

 

[dougduey]

6.5x284 is my favorite and I own CM and PRC

I totally agree. Love my 6.5-284. Recently rebarreled my Tikka and changed it from a .243 to the 6.5. Creed. Sweet shooter and now I'm a believer......never thought I'd drink the CM kool-aid. Crazy thing is I can get near Norma speeds using the 143 gr ELDX and RL26. Tiny groups at 2950 fps, can you believe that?? In the Creed nonetheless. And I never hit pressure, but ran out of case capacity.
Here's a photo of my 6.5-284

 

[25WSM]

The little 6.5 Creed will rock with rl26. But the 6.5-284 will still rock more with rl26. I'm a Creed guy all the way but have many different 6.5s. The 284 variety is the one I would do in a long action.
Shep

 

[dougduey]

The little 6.5 Creed will rock with rl26. But the 6.5-284 will still rock more with rl26. I'm a Creed guy all the way but have many different 6.5s. The 284 variety is the one I would do in a long action.
Shep

My 6.5-284 is on a long action. Load development was done with RL23 during the summer since RL26 was having pressure spikes and 23 is more temp stable. I'm sure I could get a lot more out of it using 26, but I've got such an accurate load at 3000 fps and it's been verified out to 1070 yards that it didn't seem necessary.
I was just very surprised at the velocity I got with 26 in the Creed. I'll keep that hot rod load just for hunting so I don't torch them barrel. I practice with other loads in the high 2800's.

 

[25WSM]

I will only use rl26 for hunting right now also. Tried it in 3 different cartridges in my 1000 yard match rifle and just couldn't get it tight. Shot great at 100. I use h4350 in the Creed and h4831 in the 6.5-284.
Shep

 

[PAGSDIII701]

thats modern day Cabela for you. I've stopped spending at all on my club card and opened a Scheels account.... store, selection, service, all 1000x better

I'll let them (Scheel Family) know

 

[highdrum]

I will only use rl26 for hunting right now also. Tried it in 3 different cartridges in my 1000 yard match rifle and just couldn't get it tight. Shot great at 100. I use h4350 in the Creed and h4831 in the 6.5-284.
Shep

Being a double based nitroglycerin powder, it burns hot and is hard on throats as well.

 

[dougduey]

I will only use rl26 for hunting right now also. Tried it in 3 different cartridges in my 1000 yard match rifle and just couldn't get it tight. Shot great at 100. I use h4350 in the Creed and h4831 in the 6.5-284.
Shep

As a match shooter, I'm not surprised you only use Hodgdon powders. They are very temp stable. RL16 is great in the Creed and very temp stable, too.

 

[25WSM]

I had no luck with 16 in mine but rl23 did real good in my 6slr and 243ai.
Shep