fierce rifles

I might be wrong but I think Tod Bartell either does or knows someone who has, he is really knowledgeable on those rifles.
Also I think a member called Salty has ordered one..
 
I have an edge ti in 26 nosler. It took 18 months to get the rifle, and it showed up without the camo dip I requested. I ended up getting a stock from another dealer in trade, but it took an extra couple weeks. The finish work, ie metal to stock fit, is no where near as clean as what you get with a custom or even a sako finlight from the ones I have seen. The bottom metal at the base of the wrist / back of the trigger is proud of the stock as the two contours are not the same. You could tune that up with a file on the bottom metal but then you would need to do the cerakote over. It is also not bedded in the stock, there is an aluminum bedding plate like a sako and pillars, but not actually "bedded" into the stock. The flutes on the barrel are not indexed, ie there isn't a flute or a land straight up as you look down the barrel. On mine the flute is about half a flute off of being indexed on top. A plain jane factory rifle comes with flutes indexed. One more negative- the ejection is the same as the sako 85 which puts your brass hitting the windage turret of your scope, a well known sako issue, that fierce never fixed.

I also have found it to be very finiky to load for. The test target had a hand load recorded on it, which with me pulling the trigger goes around half moa. I have found a few other loads with other bullets but the best seem to stick around 3/4moa. The rifle does always put the first shot from a cold barrel bang on. If I took 15 min to shoot a 3 shot group I would bet it would lay down a 1/4moa group.
The rifle is light, and has all the makings of what should be a great rifle, but the assembly is lacking. I will say it is a great looking rifle.
 
sounds like fit and finish should be better for an expensive rifle. When you eject a shell does it clear the ejection port or does it fall back in after it hits the turret?
 
The first Fierce rifle that I had did have ejection issues. The spent case would just fall back inside the receiver. Had a talk to the company and it was sent back.
They replaced the ejector, trigger and magazine.
The bad part was when they sent the rifle back some lazy person in shipping just tossed the bolt in the hard case with the rifle. Never wrapped it up. When it arrived the rifle was a mess. Marks on it everywhere. So much that they had to build me a new rifle.
I never shot the new rifle yet as it's been sitting in the safe for over a year.
But I did notice that the rifles that they first made had larger barrel diameters, compared to the ones they manufacture now.
One other observation that I noticed was, if you reloaded your ammo to exactly what they used to test the rifle it shot really well. Factory ammo didn't group at all, at least not in my first rifle.
They don't index the barrels so the flutes don't line up and the camo stock had a few flaws in the dipping process.
The only other complaint that I had was that they used Loc-tite when they put on the muzzle brake. Had a hell of a time getting it off.
 
i have a fierce 338 lapua not one issue , holes touch using factory horandy ammo at 100 yards , bought my son the fierce carbon fibre barrel rem 7mm and step son the same gun without carbon barrel all 3 shoot incredibly well , all topped with nf nxs 5.5 x22x56
 
I picked up a second hand edge in 300wsm a couple months ago and I am really like it. I haven't had a chance to really fine tune a load for it yet but it seems to be fairly accurate with the loads I've fed it so far. I just got some 168/180 gr TTSX to work up a load for it. Between the stock and the nice Limbsaver pad it is very comfortable to shoot from the bench. Fit and finish is good on mine. i topped it off with a Swaro Z3 3-10x42 BRH hopefully use it to put some moose in the freezer this fall!
 
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