I have one of those 22/250 actions in front of me as i type this. THEY ARE A POS!! Everything is EXACTLY as Art discribes with his action. They are nothing more than the 223 action with the bolt face opened up. This thing wouldn't feed a greased supposatory! Art check your actions bolt locking lug resesses in the receiver. On the action i have they look like they were cut with VERY dull cutter that chattered like hell. The cam angles cut on the rear corners of the bolt lugs are cut so deep as to remove at least 1/3 of the surface area of the rear lug face on each lug & looks as if it was done with a dremel tool! There is no inner torque coller so the barrel must torque up against that little 1.250 OD receiver ring. My customer brought me this action wanting it barreled up in 6mmBR. I'm REALLY haveing second & third! thoughts about this. I just don't think the action is strong enough. How can a company take somthing with good potential & screw it up so much is beyond me. They think we americans will accept anything!

The theory is we Americans will eat anything with catsup on it. Although wompus cat don't need catsup on it.

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I just don't think the action is strong enough.

by my math there's barely a 2:1 safety margin to shearing the bolt lugs with a mild load in a .22-250

This is a fine little action but it needs to be confined to the .223 family of cartridges and smaller.

Doug, I remember first hearing about these and couldn't figure out how a 22-250 would even fit in the magazine box. Not surprised.

fla3006 you can stuff 2 rounds in the mag IF you're REALLY determined to get them in but the only way they are coming out is to dump them out the bottom!

I did similar calcs and came out about the same on safety factor. That's not too bad, really. You have to consider that these actions and it's spiritual parent the L461 Sako are made in the PPC rounds and 7.62x39 all the time, and the stress from these rounds are very close to the BR head size. What galls me, as pointed out in my other post, is that they sell an action for a specific cartridge, and it is a joke trying to cycle that cartridge through the action. I don't mind having to do a little finishing and polishing at the prices they charge, but it should at least be operative for the service it is sold for.

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I did similar calcs and came out about the same on safety factor. That's not too bad, really.

With all respect Art.....I won't own a gun that operates that slim. IMO selling that action with a .473 boltface is a serious error in more ways than the failure to feed issues. While the PPC and 7.62 rounds are about .03 smaller IMO they too are marginal for this action.

The more I see of KBI/CD the more disgusted I get with them.

BTW I calculated the safety margin on a M-70 in .30-06 at roughly 4:1