Fierce rifles?

My experience with Fierce has been fine…as far as the quality of what I ended up with.

I wanted a quality rifle in Left Hand configuration, short action not a common thing, or at least wasn't 6 years ago.

I bought a CT Edge as a barrel-less Ti action and a carbon fiber stock. Ordered thru Precision Optics in BC.

Rifle (an action) arrived with a rh stock. Waited a while and its replacement arrived with wrong configuration. Third time lucky the correct stock arrived.

Sent her off for a HCA CF barrel in 1:8 7WSM. The smith (Andy at Dragon Mountain Machine) butchered the chamber to the extent that brass would not extract or re-size ( way oversize chamber). 7WSM is one of a small number of cartridges that can never be re-chambered to anything else. So that barrel is garbage.

Second barrel went 1:8.5 HCA in 7-300WSM for quality brass availability. G. Flach in Langley did a great job including magazine mod.

It's a light weight, easy to shoot hunting rifle. Barrel is 20". It fits me perfectly and shoots about 3/4 moa.

The sako style action instils confidence, but being Ti it's not super smooth, not that that is a big deal for a hunting rifle.

If you end up with one, cut or have a smith cut a groove in the mag release so that the magazine has to be pushed in like a Sako to be released or you will lose your mag in the woods ($200CDN)

After all the shenanigans and load development I probably have $6500 Cdn into it. It took me a while to warm up to but now I love and trust that rifle.

Took a moose this September, but not really LRH worthy, as the bull walked out 90 yards down river of me and graciously died on a small island.

I won't buy another one, but I won't sell the one I have either. It's a well built, light weight corrosion-proof do-all rifle for me.
Andy is a fantastic Gun smith and did two rifles for me last year and they are flawless. He will definitely get my business again.

I had 3 Fierce from precision optics last year and one from a local store and all 4 had extraction issues and had to visit a gunsmith.
Andy repairs the Fierce for precision optics and Andy hates them. He is constantly fixing Fierce rifles.
 
Quality machine is far more important than most people realize
Glad you finally got what you were looking for
It sounds like andy from dragon mountain has the same craftsman ship as andy from insite arms
They botched my HCA Barrel i wanted them to chamber in 300 Norma
Same thing, sloppy oversized chamber
Had two rifles done by Andy this year and they are perfection and shoot as good as they look.

Not sure that this other guy needs to be posting Andy's name and business could've just called him the Gun Smith.
Sucks that he had a bad experience but the stuff I got from him was incredible.
 
Had two rifles done by Andy this year and they are perfection and shoot as good as they look.

Not sure that this other guy needs to be posting Andy's name and business could've just called him the Gun Smith.
Sucks that he had a bad experience but the stuff I got from him was incredible.
I wouldn't have been so public with the problem if the above mentioned smith hadn't repeatedly lied to my face that everything was fine and then gone radio silence when confronted with a picture of the chamber he cut with a factory round of 7wsm inserted 60% of the way in….BACKWARDS. As well as way oversize caliper reading of the chamber.

If anyone wants to get a hold of him for me, I'd love a cheque for $1700.

The one good thing he did do was recommend Zediker's book on making the best possible hand loads. Excellent book.
 
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