As I’ve yet to even clean it since purchase, much less even chamber a round, I’m thinking next weekend I’m going to work a financial magic trick, wave my magic debit card and turn my T3X into a PH3. No matter how hard I math building the Tikka into as close to a Seekins as I can I’m still into Havok territory. With fall fast approaching, when I look at the time I have for load development and building a dope card, working up a cast lead load for my Anaconda and getting as consistent as can be with my Black Widow there’s no chance the Tikka will be ready to go.
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Experience has made me a believer in buy once cry once. Unless the project is the goal, not the rifle, I say buy what you’re looking for and be a happy with it.
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I like that Ben, sometimes the project is the goal!
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Yep I’m building 2, and as hard as I’ve shopped to save a couple $$ here and there… I know I could’ve just bought off a rack somewhere and would get the same results, especially when I’m not going to reload. I think looking back if your going to build a custom gun, you better off buying one, unless it’s a gun that factory ammo doesn’t really exists for. And your going to reload for… As my light weight Weatherby 307 CT Alpine in 6.5 prc shoots sub .75 groups all day… and only cost $2000…. Only wish my current 2 builds would be in $2000… just can’t beat the supply chain/volume discount the major gun companies can do…
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I know we have a lot of people here that really like Seekins, but I don’t know that I’d trust them after seeing them in snow. This is a sample size of 1, but I’d love to see if others have the same issue. This Seekins literally stopped functioning due to the amount of snow it got on it. That’s crazy.
What do you mean by stop functioning? Would it not fire? Did you leave it outside in the snow or did the issues come from just carrying it in the snow?
At some point I was planning on a seekins 6.5PRC, so definitely curious about your issues.
This was from a winter shooting class. Participants brought, “Mostly Tikka T3’s. 2x Remington based rifles/actions (1x Seekins PH3, 1x Defiance IIRC @WDO), 2x Tikka M595’s, 1x MRC Marshall, 1x Blaser R8 for a bit, and 3x UM/S2H Ravens”
“…The Seekins also got a bit of snow on it on for the first shot on the last day, and absolutely could not be chambered or fired. Cliff Grey dumped the tiny bit of snow off before shooting, and it still wouldn’t function.”
“…To put it in perspective the difference between the Seekins PH3 and other platforms, a Tikka T3, Raven, Sako TRG, and Blaser R8 were left outside all day and night covered in snow- and functioned with zero issues the next day.”
Again, sample size of 1, but I would be curious to know if others have had any issues. I want to be fair to the Manufacturer and also have transparency.
Wow… Good to know. Thanks for sharing.
Look on Rockslide for the S2H winter class report, although it’s buried in there amongst all the reviews of clothing, Etc
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I’ve also been considering a couple Weatherby 307 possibilities thanks to substantial discounts via Guidefitter. But, the simplicity of swapping barrels and servicing the bolt in the field are also very appealing with the Seekins. I believe whatever I opt for will be used hard and I’ll educate myself on the platform and its bugs; beware the man with 1 rifle concept.
Were they shooting factory ammo or homemade rounds? I have read outfitter reports where a home grown version had too tight tolerances and when subjected to cold temps the difference in metals and contraction the home grown would not chamber so the client ended up using the outfitters ammunition.
Excellent point! I’ve been a reloader since my early teen years and only recently begun to understand the point of and value in bumping the shoulder .001-.002” for this very reason.