Well guys not too sure what to say as my first post except that i'm utterly disappointed and quite embarrassed with my recent expensive purchase of a Christensen Arms CA15 Direct Impingement Wylde Chamber
My new 3600 tax included CAD$ Carbon fiber guaranteed less than 1moa Christensen Arms AR15 is a nothing better than a lemon. 600 rounds in, all either firing 55 grain AE or Hornady VMAX 55 grain, no reloads.
What happens is the following:
- 1 in 8 Failures to feed, bullets points clearly catching on the feed ramps, called CA they mentioned this is a known issue with all their CA15, this happens regardless of the many types of magazines i tried.
- 1 in 20 Failures to strike (light primer strikes) causing me to have to mortar the gun to get the live round out
- And 2 weekends ago my bolt release tab completely sheared off and went flying past my face during a quick 5 round. Sheared off exactly where the upper meets the lower, on the weld point of the bolt release tab. Most probably a shitty drunken weld
I called CA, after going back and forth for over a week on the phone, they told me to ship them the firearm under an RMA, unfortunately can't do that since I'm in Canada and I can't ship a firearm to another country. Ca should have really thought about that before agreeing to export firearms here.
I bought it here in BC at Wanstalls, they will try to get it fixed and running by bringing it to their smith, and I'll give them a chance. But this is probably going to take 3 to 4 months. Kudos to them for standing behind a rifle they sold me, I admire that. Nevertheless I strongly suggest everyone stay away from purchasing this rifle. Even if they get all the issues fixed I'm not sure I can trust this rifle to do any competitions at all.
When it does fire though, it is 1MOA, when it doesnt fire well I guess it's infinite MOA.
Here's a picture of it, it looks great, but frankly this thing is a bust:
http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b582/michparent/SAM_0022_zps16c339de.jpg