Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Single Shots Soroka worth $18k?

Let's see, first off it is entirely custom made beginning with the best components available.
Before I go off to far, if the soroka had an English gun makers name on it then it would cost close to six figures, very likely. I've held them and I've inspected them, closely. ..It's good enough that any English gun maker would be proud to place their name on it.
I also own some vintage and modern English guns as well and so I can compare them to said makers with some first-hand knowledge.

The Ruger is made where the costs involved in building it are purposely made to be kept as low as possible. This is true even at the expense (pun intended) of the Rugers quality and accuracy.

The Soroka is built with the cost involved to build it largely being ignored because the best materials cost money, and the Soroka is built to be the finest single shot rifle they can build.

Many a metaphor can be used here but a simple one is automobiles. They can all get you to B from point A but the ones that are built with a purpose, say to get you there faster, well, they will get you there faster than one built from a perspective that doesn't care about speed. ...or more importantly, quality.

Tex n cal, the Soroka is only faithful to the Farquharsen in the profile. The internals of the Soroka are a huge improvement over the Farqy....the Farqy had problems internally. It was not a great design internally where as the Soroka is actually a simple and elegant mechanism...with a fantastic trigger.

I know several owners and every one of the Soroka rifles I've seen targets on were well under 1 inch groups.
I've been very interested in them. I've now got one on order.
All the owners I've spoken to absolutely love their Soroka rifle.
The last gentleman I spoke with has several loads the gun loves and all those loads shoot around 1/2".


The "Martini" is actually a Hagn, designed by Martin Hagn. Ralph Martini builds some rifles on the Hagn action. The Hagn action is a nice action but some people do not like the looks of it.