swavescatter
Pain in the butt!
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In the spirit of transparency, I'm going to detail my experience *attempting* to have Fierce address obvious quality control issues with their rifle.
I purchased a Fierce Reaper in 6.5PRC from Cabelas ($3k rifle!) in the hopes that it would be the ultimate big game rifle for me and one that I would hand down to my sons. Finally saved up enough to mount a Leupold VX6HD on it and took it to the range.
Initial shots with Norma Golden target seemed promising, but just plinking around while performing barrel break-in. Bolt felt like glass empty, but not amazing with ammo. Finished break-in and moved to 100 yd range to zero, switched to Hornady ELD-X. Bolt was extremely tight and would not extract the case. Had to tap out with a range rod. Bought a box of Hornady ELD-M, same thing.
I had already been talking to Fierce about the QD cup being filled with resin from the sloppy carbon fiber work. Their response was just to scratch it out with a screwdriver until the QD cup fits. On a $3k rifle I need to gouge out the QD cups?
On Saturday, February 11th I requested an RMA to ship the rifle back due to the inability to chamber factory ammo issue. On Monday, February 13th Cody asks for some information and says that his gunsmith will reach out to provide shipping info. On Sunday February 19th I pinged him again to ask about return shipping. No response as of February 22.
I decide that I'm ready to move forward and brought it in to Cabelas. They refuse repeatedly to allow for a return of the rifle, since they can't buy non-functioning firearms. So now they have it and are shipping it back to Fierce under the assumption that they won't get ignored.
Lesson #1 - don't buy Fierce (though this has become readily apparent from the multiple other threads).
Lesson #2 - don't buy from Cabelas (if they sell you a defective firearm you're SOL).
EDIT - In the end Cabela's did buy the rifle back, but I had to go professional Karen.
I'll update in the coming weeks (months?) to document my progress.
I purchased a Fierce Reaper in 6.5PRC from Cabelas ($3k rifle!) in the hopes that it would be the ultimate big game rifle for me and one that I would hand down to my sons. Finally saved up enough to mount a Leupold VX6HD on it and took it to the range.
Initial shots with Norma Golden target seemed promising, but just plinking around while performing barrel break-in. Bolt felt like glass empty, but not amazing with ammo. Finished break-in and moved to 100 yd range to zero, switched to Hornady ELD-X. Bolt was extremely tight and would not extract the case. Had to tap out with a range rod. Bought a box of Hornady ELD-M, same thing.
I had already been talking to Fierce about the QD cup being filled with resin from the sloppy carbon fiber work. Their response was just to scratch it out with a screwdriver until the QD cup fits. On a $3k rifle I need to gouge out the QD cups?
On Saturday, February 11th I requested an RMA to ship the rifle back due to the inability to chamber factory ammo issue. On Monday, February 13th Cody asks for some information and says that his gunsmith will reach out to provide shipping info. On Sunday February 19th I pinged him again to ask about return shipping. No response as of February 22.
I decide that I'm ready to move forward and brought it in to Cabelas. They refuse repeatedly to allow for a return of the rifle, since they can't buy non-functioning firearms. So now they have it and are shipping it back to Fierce under the assumption that they won't get ignored.
Lesson #1 - don't buy Fierce (though this has become readily apparent from the multiple other threads).
Lesson #2 - don't buy from Cabelas (if they sell you a defective firearm you're SOL).
EDIT - In the end Cabela's did buy the rifle back, but I had to go professional Karen.
I'll update in the coming weeks (months?) to document my progress.
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