Just checked at the Jarrett Rifles website www.jarrettrifles.com and they seem to have some beautiful new wood stocked guns - would the experts here have any experience with shooting/hunting with these?

Thanks in advance for the information.

Good hunting!

Mehul

I know that Jarret had plans on makeing his own action. Judgeing from the pictures it looks like the actions were Nesika Bay and McMillan MCRT.

No idea how these rifles are

/ JOHAN

there are 6-8 in my hunting club, they are nice bit overpriced.. his old shop foreman charges 1/2 as much at carolina precision..

His trilock action is represented on the site.

Chuck

Almost 7 grand for a synthetic stocked working finish hunting gun that shoots 3/4 MOA with a specific load? I've got a winchester that does that with less than 200 bucks worth of pillar bedding and a trigger job. I could see spending that kind of coin on a gun that was both an effective and accurate hunting tool AND a work of art to behold with AAA wood and perfect metal work but not one of these. Beauty IS in the eye of the beholder and if they make you feel good and confident in the gun then go for it but I just don't see paying his prices for propietary barrels and receivers that others make as good or better for much less, every other gunsmith seems to be able to turn out accurate guns with the existing barrels on the market.

Kevin, I'm with you on this. Seems to me that for the same money you could do much better.

tom ga hunter



Agree. John Lewis is a nicer person and knows what he's doing. I'm not sure who works at Jarrett's rifles but I guess Jarrett does most of the talking





The actions on the website is Nesika Bay and McBros MCRT.

I would rather get a Ed Brown 702 than Jarret and for less money



Cheers

/ JOHAN

i have the parts ofr 2 rifles ready to carry to John but can't decide on the calaber.. 1 si a 700ks with a shot out barrel i was coing to make a 257 roberts out of but i found a nice 700 mountain rifle so i have 4 257's the other is a m70 classic in a borden/rimrock stock.. i should make into a 338 but i will never elk hunt so it's just someting else to set on the shelf..

He might make great rifles, but that claim of making the world's most accurate hunting rifles is bit silly.

Ditto to what Saeed said and I'm not prepared to pay that kind of cash for a glorified 700. jorge

Wow! That "English Claro Walnut" stock on the "Anniversary Signature Rifle" must be expensive stuff.

Ditto to what Jorge posted and I would not pay that much for a glorified Win 70 either!

MtnHtr

Lots of Sakos and Remingtons shoot 1/2" right out of the box. No need to spend $7K for that.

Further, there is a lot more to a hunting rifle than accuracy. 1.5" is really all that is needed for hunting, but other features are much more important.

Jarret is a loudmouth blowhard who in no way, shape or form
builds his own actions.

7K for a Remington....

Good grief...

If Kenny is such a blowhard, where did all those benchrest records come from?

I had a nice chat with him at the last SCI Convention, and he walked me through the features of his TriLock action. It is an interesting variation of the modern turn-bolt theme.

Jarrett makes their own barrels now. He says his scrap rate with barrels bought from the name makers was higher than he was willing to accept. The internal dimensions are also proprietary to Jarrett, and if a rifle doesn't shoot the barrel is scrapped.

As to his most accurate claim, I haven't seen any makers disputing it.

jim

It would be a foolish decision to spend that much money on a rifle if you ask me.

If he was scrapping barrels, he wasn't spending much on them.... What a joke.

To suggest he can make a better barrel than Dan Lilja, Shilen, Krieger, Hart, or even Pac-Nor or Douglas.... that's EARNING the blowhard moniker, IMO. I have a couple of "match" barrels screwed onto run of the mill actions, and none of them shoot groups greater than .5", "with selected loads". Maybe I should hang out a shingle with "most accurate hunting rifles" on it! Dutch.

From the articles I have seen (I have not had the $$$ to buy a Jarret), his rifles are imminently accurate. They obviously also come with a hefty pricetag, but it would seem to me that Jarret is not the only manufacturer who can demand those kind of prices. I guess that the rifles must be worth their price to enough customers that they keep Jarret in business. Whether we would personally buy one (for price reasons or otherwise) is perhaps less relevant?
- mike

I know I shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing, it annoys the pig and you end up with mud all over you, but I do have some additional information on Jarrett's barrels and why he claims what he claims.

According to Kenny Jarrett he was scrapping 26 to 28 barrels per 100 barrels when he decided to make his own. His first year he scrapped 28 barrels (again per 100), and he was producing a barrel to a 3/10 of 1/1,000"deviation -- this is the trade standard for a bench rest barrel. Still not good enough.

He worked out his own production standard, going to 1/10 of 1/1,000" deviation as measured by air guage. He developed a process of final reaming where the reamer is 14 thou over bore size (the barrel springs back after this reamer is passed), then the barrel is lapped approximately 1,200 strokes to make the 1/10 deviation on the air guage. Lapping takes about 2.5 hours, and 11 laps are used and alternated with air guage radings. His scrap rate is now 3 to 5 barrels per 100.

John Barsness also tested Jarrett rifles, and he found that they shot up to the claims made for them. I haven't tried any yet, but you never know.

jim