Rifles let's see them??
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rem338win, Sorry for your luck on your investment. Of the rifles I had done by Corlanes, I have no issues in shooting accuracy. I will still recommend them to anyone.
Did you discuss your issues/concerns with Rod / Tim ?? What were their comments? Of the very few concerns I have had in the past, they took care of them no questions asked.
Did you discuss your issues/concerns with Rod / Tim ?? What were their comments? Of the very few concerns I have had in the past, they took care of them no questions asked.
Eddystone P14 or Winchester with replacement bolt.
If the serial number starts with "W" it's a Winchester action. There's a "W" on the cocking piece in your photo, so that is a Winchester part. Bolt might be too, look for the marks.
Still excellent rifles.
Here's my newly finished Guntech-built rifle that came in the mail today
Trued Remington 700
Fluted 23' Gaillard barrel
McSwirly Remington Hunter
Talley lightweights
6.5x55
Love it! Love the fact you went with the Sako Hunter stock fitted for a Remmy! Heck I'd even shoot it now! (LOL)! No seriously nice rifle. What was the swirl blend %?
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Wookie, I liked the way the first pics looked. Looked like it was gunmetal grey-neat looking pic thou.
Yes I did. I sent it back and for three times, and they didn't fix a thing. After having my rifle gone for over 4 months and spending a fortune of reloading components (and about 5 boxes of premium factory) I was sick of hearing excuses. I don't believe a person should have to beg to get it fixed. They should be fixing it in 3 times. Not to mention the three fairly large mistakes they made in doing stuff that wasn't requested and not doing things that were.
I sent a lot of business to Tim and Rod when I was working in the gun business. And I am not the only person that has had issues since either.
They are nice guys, I will give them that.
The real piss off is that the action on that POS was off of my first rifle bought for me by my grandfather. It shot 40 some big game animals, not including 'yotes.
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7 by 57 with a 154g Hornady and a 10 yard back of the neck shot
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It's 70% black, 20% olive, and 10% light gray. The pictures really don't do it any justice. He bead blasted then buffed the action and barrel with a stainless steel wheel so the metal has an almost titanium look to it..
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What caliber was it? What barrel was put on? I don't doubt your story on the accuracy issue, but it seems strange that a great shooting rifle would come back shooting poorly. Do they not test the rifle themselves when they have a customer complaint? What exactly did you have done by them if I may ask. I am assuming by your story you covered all of the basics. Scope? I only ask this because I had a 264 that would copper foul badly so I had it lapped in hopes of less of a fouling issue. It had a VX II on before the lapping, and I put another VX III back onto the rifle after the lapping. After my first trip to the range with that rifle, I was getting a 3 inch group and I thought "My barrel has been wrecked" I was shooting a new handload load also which made me think that could be the issue too. After a couple of more trips to the range with no success and worsening groups I got to thinking "This rifle just doesn't shoot that bad". I only had the barrel lapped in hopes of helping some of the copper fouling, which didn't happen. It was always a sub MOA rifle, just a pain to clean. I reluctantly switched back to the VX II scope and my next trip to the range with the new handloads I was back to sub MOA shooting. I would have bet money there was nothing wrong with that scope and that it was the barrel lapping I had done. I am sure you have checked all of this I am just pointing out that sometime what you think is the problem isn't. Let's see a picture of the rig in question too!
Also a rifle can be very badly built and shoot awesome. Check my post here about this rig I had built by a Bubba. It shot awesome! Who knew this is what I would of found when I pulled it apart!
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=330812
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Wookie,
It was a stainless 700. Blueprinted, sako extractor installed, bolt face opened. It wasn't supposed to be sleeved, and they accidentally sleeved it. The barrel was a #3 Gaillard in .338 1-10" twist, fluted (by Corlanes). Chambered for 338 Win. Mag. It was supposed to be an ADL, but they forgot and did a BDL on the new Wildcat stock. Again oops. I had a muzzle brake threaded and a protector done for the rifle also. It was supposed to be a slimline break. Forgot again and made it full size. Darn. Had a 1/2lb mercury decelerator placed in the stock, because the rifle was going to end up a 1/2lb too light (we were shooting for 6 1/2lbs sans scope and ammo). The rifle ended up being 7 1/2lbs. And the mercury tube was epoxied in at the wrong angle (looked at by another pro), and was basically unneeded weight.
The metal work was powder coated after the action was bedded and caused a few issues (eventually looked after by someone else).
The paint job was great, I will say that. But the rifle has been tinkered to death now, and way to much powder and factory ammo was used trying to find something that should be acceptable. Nothing shot under two inches 3shots, 3groups. Most averaged 3 inches.
The rings were Talley one pieces, and the scopes used were a brand new VX III 2.5-8x36, VX III 3.5-10x40, and VX III 4.5-14x40. All scopes proved themselves very well on other rifles before and after. Rings were very secure and they where lapped.
They had it back three times. They shot it two of the times and they shot a total of 5 three shot groups. Two of them where under a 1.5 MOA. I had the same boxes of factory ammo they shot out of sent to me. I didn't get anything that averaged under 2" for more than one 3 shot group. (The rifle did shoot some sub MOA groups. The issue was that it would shoot a 1" group and then a 3" group and then a 2" group with the same load, same day, same conditions, same scope, etc, etc.)
The crew up there was always friendly, and seemed to try to be helpful. The thing is, if you are calling yourself a custom gun maker, and you are taking a lot of money from people, you need to provide what you get payed for. The never once offered to take the rifle and work on it until it shot well. They seemed too busy to provide what they were offering. Now it's my problem, and I'll talk about it all I want, cause I paid for it.
It was a stainless 700. Blueprinted, sako extractor installed, bolt face opened. It wasn't supposed to be sleeved, and they accidentally sleeved it. The barrel was a #3 Gaillard in .338 1-10" twist, fluted (by Corlanes). Chambered for 338 Win. Mag. It was supposed to be an ADL, but they forgot and did a BDL on the new Wildcat stock. Again oops. I had a muzzle brake threaded and a protector done for the rifle also. It was supposed to be a slimline break. Forgot again and made it full size. Darn. Had a 1/2lb mercury decelerator placed in the stock, because the rifle was going to end up a 1/2lb too light (we were shooting for 6 1/2lbs sans scope and ammo). The rifle ended up being 7 1/2lbs. And the mercury tube was epoxied in at the wrong angle (looked at by another pro), and was basically unneeded weight.
The metal work was powder coated after the action was bedded and caused a few issues (eventually looked after by someone else).
The paint job was great, I will say that. But the rifle has been tinkered to death now, and way to much powder and factory ammo was used trying to find something that should be acceptable. Nothing shot under two inches 3shots, 3groups. Most averaged 3 inches.
The rings were Talley one pieces, and the scopes used were a brand new VX III 2.5-8x36, VX III 3.5-10x40, and VX III 4.5-14x40. All scopes proved themselves very well on other rifles before and after. Rings were very secure and they where lapped.
They had it back three times. They shot it two of the times and they shot a total of 5 three shot groups. Two of them where under a 1.5 MOA. I had the same boxes of factory ammo they shot out of sent to me. I didn't get anything that averaged under 2" for more than one 3 shot group. (The rifle did shoot some sub MOA groups. The issue was that it would shoot a 1" group and then a 3" group and then a 2" group with the same load, same day, same conditions, same scope, etc, etc.)
The crew up there was always friendly, and seemed to try to be helpful. The thing is, if you are calling yourself a custom gun maker, and you are taking a lot of money from people, you need to provide what you get payed for. The never once offered to take the rifle and work on it until it shot well. They seemed too busy to provide what they were offering. Now it's my problem, and I'll talk about it all I want, cause I paid for it.
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I know of 2 other Coralanes rifles that shot poorly, same type of accuracy you are talking about. They both had fluted bbls as well. The guns were finished very nicly but did not shoot worth a hoot.
I am sure that they can make a gun shoot but have seen ones that didn't. Might be the flutes. Don't know.
I am sure that they can make a gun shoot but have seen ones that didn't. Might be the flutes. Don't know.
I have owned other fluted barrels that shot quite well. Actually the best shooting .270 I ever owned was a Sako Finlite that shot .5-.75" 5 shot groups with 130gr TSX'S.
I have a 6.5x47 Lapua that has a 10 flute Krieger that shoots in the . 3's, 5 shots too. If they are fluted right, they will shoot. No matter what Rick says
Like I said, this isn't the only Corlane rifle I have owned, and seen, that shot poorly. Though I owned 1 30-06 that shot around MOA very consistently.
I'm just disappointed. I hoped for better from some good guys.
I have a 6.5x47 Lapua that has a 10 flute Krieger that shoots in the . 3's, 5 shots too. If they are fluted right, they will shoot. No matter what Rick says
Like I said, this isn't the only Corlane rifle I have owned, and seen, that shot poorly. Though I owned 1 30-06 that shot around MOA very consistently.
I'm just disappointed. I hoped for better from some good guys.
Flutes? Now that you mention it, I had 2 Finnlights. 1 in 7mm that shot great, and one in 300 WSM that I could not get to shoot worth a darn so I sold it. I have had 2 Gaillard barrels now, and each shot flawlessly! What did Ted say, or did you ever take it back to him?
it prolly would have been better to get the barrel fluted from gallaird when he built it, rather than getting someone else to do it, then you know it will get done 100% and you can eliminate that from part of the problem. I was debating getting my barrel on my A bolt fluted but the gun smith talked me out of it, he said it would most likely be fine, but its better to get them done when they are built.
I actually believe that we had stated when the deal was made that Ted was going to flute the barrel. They did it differently. The barrel was ordered by Corlane. I don't actually believe that Ted's barrel would be the problem to be honest. I've had Gaillard barrels before, and they were good. Corlane fluted it and they threaded it for the break too. I doubt Ted could take responsibility for it.
Ok, Ok Pharoah settle down, here you go......
30-30A. I miss this one.
Moved to Quebec. Stupid me.
280 AI. Built by Ed Sakula. Never even shot it. Dumby
Supercub has this .270 back. My buddy shot this bear with it at 42yds. Its brown now.
Less talk more ####.
I'm running thin on pics!
Go back 17 years and you'd find me working in a small gun shop for a class in school and didn't have two dimes to rub together (that I was allowed to spend). This is the first high powered rifle I ever bought, an 1100 Super Grade from about 1956. Mom and Dad were not impressed but they understood I needed to have something to do.
Never should have sold this one.
My Great Uncle's Crown Grade 3000. He bought this one when he was 15 in 1958 if I recall. Packed more than shot, it only filled a few tags. He didn't have it in him to shoot game anymore. Another great shooter, should have kept it for my boy.
A later 30's 23C Savage in 32-20 WCF. This gun is a shooter doing as well with open sights as scoped guns do in my shaky hands.
Some may recall this pic from a few years ago. This little Steven's came from Wisconsin in 1907, a homesteading gun of my Great-great Uncle Albert. He let his son use it to shoot rabbits and also ducks and grouse for table fare in those early days.
Have a picture of Uncle Reuben, Albert's son with a coyote he shot with this rifle but it isn't loaded...yet.
Keep 'er rollin boys.
30-30A.
I like! Very nice condition for an old girl. Pre 90,000 serial number, square back bolt. Looks like a very well looked after original rifle. It's a keeper!
