The long-awaited heavy hitter from Sig is here. It’s long-awaited because it was always in the plan for the Cross to go beyond the lightweight, do-all, go-everywhere rifle that it has been. When the base Cross hit the market, it took many by surprise, and more and more people are adding it to their collections.
This version is a much heavier target-focused rifle with a 14-pound dry weight on tap before adding optics, bipods and other necessary goodies to work with it. You won’t be humping this in the field for sure. The core is still the same with a one-piece receiver much like that of an AR platform. The new weight comes from a much heavier barrel and an ARCA rail with weight added to the stock as well. It’s pretty well balanced.
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What hasn’t changed is the action feel of the Cross. It’s good—really good and an attribute that we couldn’t stop talking about. It feels different from all the others, too. Is this PRS version as worthy of praise as the original Cross? We shall see.
To be honest, I think we all expected the Cross to be much higher in the rankings. Why? Well, because the Cross rifle is a winner, period. And now that it’s in a heavier racier form it should be better, right? The action is great. For something mass-produced and not custom-honed all of us like the action. It feels mechanical and robust with easy lift, and confident smoothness with feedback. The aesthetics had us split, with evaluator #2, Austin, not digging it as much as myself and David.
We like the Arca rail and the long forend, as well as the trigger. Our concerns fell with the stock that wiggled more than we think it should and after a couple hundred rounds on this sample, accuracy was—meh. I broke into the 0.6’s a couple times but after tons of different brands and loads, it just didn’t give us what we believe is in there, or maybe we can’t extract it across the board.
It’s not a bad rifle in any way, but we are here to split the splits.
