RIPPED off by Jager sporting (James Clark)
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I know people very happy with his work and one guy who took him to court over some alleged bad work and summarily lost quite soundly as well as other stories readily available on Faceache.
Read his T&Cs they are meant to be watertight and professionally drawn up to maximise his own protection.
Read his T&Cs they are meant to be watertight and professionally drawn up to maximise his own protection.
243varmint
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Do a search on here.....
dropmdead
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Was the money taken as a non refundable deposit, or just not returned?
Was any other deal offered etc in regards to the contract between himself and you?
Was James Clark actually making the barrel, or threaded, chambering etc like most other gunsmiths do as a job?
Just trying to understand what went on...
I picked up my rifle from him 2weeks ago, he’s open and up front and says ‘I’m not the fastest’ but the work he has done is first rate can’t knock it, and for the price more than happy. I will use him again no problems
You can’t make every customer happy but I’m sure if you spoke to him a solution can be sorted.
Hope this isn’t part of the mud slinging that the keyboard warriors on facetwat are happy too throw around!!!!
You can’t make every customer happy but I’m sure if you spoke to him a solution can be sorted.
Hope this isn’t part of the mud slinging that the keyboard warriors on facetwat are happy too throw around!!!!
I’ve had 2 rifles made by him, and I’m more than happy with both! Both were made exactly to my specifications and are great shooters (it’s me that lets them down 
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Always found him great to chat to and VERY reasonably priced. And honestly I can’t overstate that last part. I got 2 custom barrels from him for not much more than the price others were quoting for 1, which would have made them unaffordable to me.
)Always found him great to chat to and VERY reasonably priced. And honestly I can’t overstate that last part. I got 2 custom barrels from him for not much more than the price others were quoting for 1, which would have made them unaffordable to me.
Two tikkas re barrelled; one amazingly accurate, the other one I've not shot yet
One Tikka bought from the sealed bid sent to him to be accurised, not shot it either
My heym; after quotes of 900 to a grand and the importer wanting £1200, James got me a pre-fit for E330, for another £200 he screw cut and cerakoted it, from payment to collection was 3 weeks.
He's got some very nice American actions, I asked him about buying one, he told me to use an L579 I already have.
This is not the first time he's talked me out of spending money
I know it must be galling for the other 'smiths, to see their profit margins made public, but that's capitalism.
For my next rifle I'm going to go for one of the Serbian barrels James is now importing, let's see if it's a shooter.
With the money I've saved I'm going to buy a single lot of 1000 bullets and chronicle the rifles accuracy.
One Tikka bought from the sealed bid sent to him to be accurised, not shot it either
My heym; after quotes of 900 to a grand and the importer wanting £1200, James got me a pre-fit for E330, for another £200 he screw cut and cerakoted it, from payment to collection was 3 weeks.
He's got some very nice American actions, I asked him about buying one, he told me to use an L579 I already have.
This is not the first time he's talked me out of spending money
I know it must be galling for the other 'smiths, to see their profit margins made public, but that's capitalism.
For my next rifle I'm going to go for one of the Serbian barrels James is now importing, let's see if it's a shooter.
With the money I've saved I'm going to buy a single lot of 1000 bullets and chronicle the rifles accuracy.
Well said
He didn’t say he wasn’t capable of making them bud, he merely said that as a matter of safety he needed your action to make sure it was headspaced properly. That seems pretty reasonable to me
If you don’t want to do that, which is fair enough and your call, you have to accept a compromise in return, which James seems to have given you 3 of….
OP didn't want the headspace on their rifle confirmed, this is like those people who claim they know best and want the flue off their old boiler reused. If a smith sells a barrel it must be fit for purpose (sales of goods act and all that), James is asking to verify the usability of an item he will bear responsibility for, in what universe is that a bad thing?
I don't see how this meets the definition of "ripped off'
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: an act or instance of stealing : THEFT
also : a financial exploitation
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: a usually cheap exploitive imitation
TringSaint
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Sounds like a gunsmith I shall steer clear of!!
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