Experiences with Accurate Ordnance?

[hkfan45]

Hi Guys. I'm looking at Accurate Ordnance as my next builder of an Eliseo for competition. I know Keith Trapp had his built by the guys at AO, so that gives me a little assurance. However, my only concern is that AO seems to focus on "tacticool" rifles, and this Eliseo will be a competition build, so I am obviously looking for benchrest level performance over cool aesthetics.

Has anyone had any experience using them?

 

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Their shop is about 10 miles from my house. I had Eliseo build mine. Lotsa' guys are more than happy with their AO builds. I found them to be too rigid in their thinking regarding design & machine work. I found Eliseo to be an advisor and AO to be a dictator. Just my experience. If I have a personality conflict w/ a builder I move on.

 

[hkfan45]

Anything in particular you wanted done they wouldn't do? They really seem to be pushing gluing in, which I don't think I will wind up doing.

 

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I took them a blued/trued, barreled action. Wanted to have the action cera-coated and the bead blasted barrel left as is. They wouldn't do the job unless I also cera-coated the barrel and wanted me to pay for having the barrel bead blasted again. To justify the extra expense they tried to convince me that my request was technically impossible and the work wouldn't be up to their "standards" I took the action home and did the job myself without bead blasting the barrel again. The impression I got was that unless I built the rifle to their specs it might not live up to their "standards" of accuracy. In other words I'd have to spend 4 or 5 thou. for a rifle that shoots no better than my $1,500 "special". That's why Eliseo built my tube gun. I don't mind spending the bucks for quality work. I do get offended when someone tries to blow sunshine up my butt. Just my .02 Sorry for the rant.