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Anyone know anything about carolina precesion rifles? Their rifles look interesting but wanted to know if anyone had info good or bad about them.
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John Lewis runs Carolina Precision Rifles. Nice guy and does good work. He has built several rifles for me over the years. Only negative I can say is he is slow getting things done.Rick.
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Thanks for the info. Maybe now he would be slow and and need the work? Do you still have the rifles he built for you? If so can you post them so we can see the rifles along with their info. That would be awesome! You can PM me if you want.
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You have a PM but in a single word ----DON"T!
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All quality gunsmiths are going to be slow in the eyes of the customer. We are at the mercy of our vendors and quality work takes time. Most quality gunsmiths are backed up several months or years.
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I sent him a REM 700 BDL which I bot new and wouldnt hold a group under 2" with a good scope and from a bench. I thought it should do better than that.
He was advertising an "accuracy tuneup" for factory rifles at the time. It was awhile ago so I'm not sure what all it was supposed to include. It took a very long time for the work that was supposedly done. Communication skills were very poor, terrible really. I could not tell that any work had been done on my rifle at all when I got it back. It took 3 times longer than he quoted. He'll never touch another rifle of mine again.
And BTW, the accuracy was not improved on that rifle, not even a little.
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Sent him a barrel for rechambering and an action to fit it to. No difficulty with the project! This was several years ago. The work was performed in a timely manner and performed quite well. Would use him again for a project. Good work does take time amd your patience is important. He is hard to contact since he is pretty busy and returns phone calls on his schedule. Good work and reasonable pricing!
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All quality gunsmiths are going to be slow in the eyes of the customer. We are at the mercy of our vendors and quality work takes time. Most quality gunsmiths are backed up several months or years.
Nat Lambeth I have a question. Why does it take a "quality" gunsmith who promises a maximum two week turnaround six months to deliver the rifle AFTER I take him all the parts (New barrel, stock, and chamber reamer) to do the job and lay them right on the work bench in front of him? I just don't buy the we're at the mercy of our vendors and customers need to be patient argument.
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The work I had done by John was excellent, but as noted he was much slower than I expected. When I got my rifle back he had lost some screws that went with my Buehler rings and bases. Never did get them back. May not seem like a big deal but the rings, bases and screws were supposed to be Black-T finished but the rings and bases were finished, just no screws. Had to order the screws direct from Buehler and have them finished separately. I wouldn't use him again.
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"allen day> Posted 21 November 2002 08:50 In the Carolinas, I'd give my custom rifle business to John Lewis ahead of anyone else. AD" http://www.cprifles.com/
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You need to remember Allen is both a celebrity and a living legend ... I'm sure he'd be moved to the front of the line by many rifle-makers.
I don't think anyone doubts that John is a talented machinist, the problem comes with his general lack of business acument, the in-ability to follow thru on committments and the apparent lack of being able to tell what month or year it is.
I don't know if he's disorgaized & forgetful or dumber than a box of hammers or
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John Lewis used to work for Kenny Jarrett.
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Post some pictures of the CPR rifles boys!
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I would not trust this guy for nothing. It took me 28 months to get a barrel job done by him and he put the wrong barrel on. This guy has every excuse in the book and then some. BEWARE OF THIS GUY!
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This 'smith sounds like a real screwball....Anyone would be crazy to send him work after seeing the number of negative posts here.
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This thread is starting to show a pattern!
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DB Bill, How did you get your stock from McMillan like that? Also, do you know if Pac-Nor still offers gain twist barrels? Thanks, JessG
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He rebarreled me a nice 358 winchester but he was so increably slow. I have had whole rifles built in less time then it took him to rebarrel this one.
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