Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats KUIU Rifle - Anybody see these??

Kinda cool looking, a little spendy but why not??

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Ti- SLR $5600

So, a $600 Mickey Edge, a $700 installed barrel and what else? Ti is spendy but it ain't THAT expensive. Makes a GAP Surgeon look cheap. Also, why would a no-schidt gunsmith choose to live in MD? Why not just move to Boston?

Hmmm, I just bought a pre-owned U/L rifle much like that, built here in BC, by a couple of the best 'smiths we have, one is a former guide for sheep, etc and has major experience and this cost $3700.00 to build.

I bought it, test fired, for much less than that and it is on a sts Mod. 7 action, at 5 lbs. 6 oz. bare, with a custom match Gaillard sts bbl. in 7-08.

I ordered a Talley 1-pc. base today from Prophet River, a major Canadian Talley dealer and outstanding firearms retailer and will install a good scope, all up it will go about 6-2 and that is light enough for me.

Frankly, after Hairston's quiet move of production from here in Vancouver, to China and with his prices, hype and the whole "feel"of his operation, I would not buy a mitten from KUIU and this rifle seems over-priced to me.

Funny, I have known a lot of BC-AB-Yukon-NWT guides over the past half century and NONE of them looked like the dude in that photo.......

P.T. Barnum..............

I would simply buy a NULA.

I'm always suspect when they won't tell you who's barrel they use....

Something doesn't add up with this rifle...

I was kidding, I don't see how they come up with that price either - unless you pay for that funky camo job. I think the action is a Pierce Engineering which is nice and they do make a titanium but man thats a lot of coin.

If it came with the swaro its not too far out of range...but I came up with around $3k in parts.

It's not too far off from what very top builders charge for a similar rifle, but they guarantee 1/2 MOA. I wouldn't pay that, I'd just have one built, which I did few years ago that isn't to far off from this save the Titanium action. I had about $3500 into mine with the parts and gunsmithing with an accuracy guarantee and warranty. You are basically paying over $2K to be part of the KUIU club with this thing.

Exactly, that is my point and I cannot see WHY any hunter would want to do that. I can go on three separate week-long hunts in southern BC for the extra cost of that rifle over the fine little one I just bought...and, I even have a "camo" stock on mine, a Micky!

Differant strokes, I don't know why people get so spun up on what other people spend their money on? If they like it and can afford it, more power to them.

I could care less about the rifle as I think its overpriced but I am sure some folks will buy it so they can match their camo...lol

Is it made in China like the rest of their crap?

I believe the rest of their "crap" is from a Korean fabric sewn in Canada. Could have changed though. I use a pair of their pants for sheep hunting and like them very much.

Not any more, he moved production to China, hence the "crap" reference.

Frank, I think you need 2 for next years antelope hunt. 1 for back up just incase.

Maybe, but I think my new 7mm-08 will do just fine:)

For that price it better be an Adams & Bennett!

Kuiu rain gear, insulated jackets and hunting pants work great if you are a backpack hunter. And yes I have used the stuff a lot over the past two years. No comment on the new rifle.