re: Christensen Arms

I don't own one and cannot provide insight. But if you are looking for a boutique type rifle that seekins Havak PH3 is a great looking rig with a great reputation.



Seeking Precision

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The Ruger Gen II

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I would probably buy one if they weren’t so gaudy.

Man that getup is fully 100% cool kuiu wearing kid approved

I've never shot one but Seekins does tend to get much better press than christensen does and if I had to buy a boutique rifle, it'd be one of those.

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The Ruger Gen II Predator and Prairie models are $750 and are twice the gun

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No. Don't be that guy. I have a Tikka t3 Tupperware and I rather my custom Remington 700s. But the tikka is a nice rifle. Ruger has a ways to go be on tikka level rifles.

I own a Ridgeline Ti I purchased in 2021. My hunting buddy shot mine when I was sighting it in and bought one also.

It’s exceptionally accurate. It loves cheap Norma whitetail ammo, Barnes TTSX, and Federal Terminal Ascent. I’m not a great shot but it cuts holes at 100 yards and has killed deer out to 250 and an elk at 490.

If I could only have one rifle, that would be it. The whole rig, fully loaded with ammo is under 9 lbs. not bad for a .300 Win Mag.

That said, it’s not perfect. The trigger is really good, but there are better ones. The stock is pretty good, but a lot of folks upgrade. I’ve gotten used to mine like it is, so I have no reason to change any of it.

tikka Tikka tikka

I love mine. Super light weight and a good shooter.




I heard they were hit or miss so I never really was interested in them and was looking for a short barrel .308 20 inches or shorter for a spare scope I had laying around from accidental double order. Called my buddy who works at Lipseys to ask about a Bergara for about $1600 and he said by my gun for $2000. He ended up selling it to me for the $1600 I was going to pay for the Bergara and verified it shot great so I said why not.

It’s been a great gun and almost all I ever use now.

Ridgeline FFT .308 with a 16 inch barrel.

I’ve got a few custom APR rifles in 25/06, 6.5 PRC and 6.5 Creed that have 22 to 24 inch barrels and will just run a 6 inch can to help with the length. Still not ideal but at least I will use them again.

pay close attention to the responses here. I'm not saying you can't get a bad one, but notice all but one person that has responded here that owns a Christensen really likes them and finds them to be great shooting guns.

I've found this to be the case several times over. I see bad shite written about them by people that never had one, but those that actually do own them (real people, not some guy on the internet you don't know) like them.

Figure out what bullet you want to hunt with, figure out what the minimum impact speed for that bullet is, and work backwards from there to figure out what the minimum barrel length is for the range you want to be able to shoot game at. Every time I've done that exercise the resulting barrel length is shorter than I expected. For instance with a .338 win mag, typically wearing a 26" barrel, can push a 250gr accubond to 2400 fps conservatively (30fps loss per inch) from a 16" barrel. That bullet conservatively needs 1800 fps to work well, and it falls below that speed at ~ 430 yards and if you're an energy dude, it still has 1800 ft lbs at that range with those numbers.

So that's a pretty extreme example (belted magnum on the minimum legal barrel) and would still be very much elk-rated by anybody's definition at 400 yards. I'd absolutely do a 20" barrel to start with for a 6.5 PRC and maybe even cut it back further than that after trying it for a while. It's easy to take 2 more inches off but adding 2 inches requires a new barrel.