Has anyone tried the Seekins Hunter Chassis on with a rifle chambered in a magnum cartridge? Would love to hear reviews. On the fence between buying a Seekins with this Chassis or doing a Tikka build with one.
I have been in love with the Gladiator since I first saw it. I would love a bed for light use (fishing gear, deer, mulch) so don’t need a full truck, and I live in a fairly urban area so like the size. The only thing keeping me from getting one is really the stories about reliability, especially the transmission. Has this been addressed? Is there a model that is best to choose?
I’m looking at the fishing regulations and most of the season seems to end in 2025 https://www.nps.gov/olym/planyourvisit/fishing.htm am I missing something? I’m going to be staying near lake Quinalt in July and was hoping to fly fish up above the lake, but it looks as if that is not possible?
I live in a mag restricted state and wanted a chest carry 10mm that wasn’t too long as I’ve been spending more time fishing on streams in the Rockies. Selected the 10mm carry comp. As posted elsewhere had immediate issues with stovepiping and round catching and locking up on the top edge of the chamber with heavier grain weights and more full powered loads. That failure is illustrated in the photo, note that this type of jam was pretty bad, had to drop mag and eject the round to clear. I wanted to run at least 200g hardcast full powered loads reliably. While my solution has multiple variables, and I’m ultimately unsure what kicked me over to reliability, I am now able to run Underwood 200g hardcast black cherries (1250 fps advertised, less out of this shorter barrel) flawlessly. I’m using:
- High powered springs for 10rd mags from eBay
- 24lb Galloway precision recoil spring (the 22lb didn’t quite do it)
- As a belt and suspenders I added the Apex extractor. I don’t think this is necessary, but I was tired of going through $24/box hard cast ammo to have misfeeds and wanted to throw everything at the issue
All I can say is - it works now, and feels great. I’ve run both the hardcast and 205g Syntech, which is slightly lower powered through with zero issues. I love how the gun feels, and I’m very accurate with it. But it has cost some money to figure this out in various recoil springs, ammo, and even my LGS working to modify standard mags with standard higher powered springs, I would recommend to anyone that they just order the Galloway recoil spring and mag springs immediately when getting the gun and save yourself time and money.
Would buy the gun again, but FFS why can’t S&W just put the right parts in from the factory?