In another post you stated that you did not post any photos of your prototype actions becasue you did not want to get the general public stirred up.
PLEASE, STIR US UP!!!!!!
If you are going to be coming out with an action in the near future, many of us would like to at least see something so that we could start to form some sort of an intelligent decision on whether to wait for your action or instead participate in the Montana Rifle Company program.
The huge differences of course being:
1. Yours will be machined and theirs is cast
2. you claim yours will be of a quality whereby a smith won't have to do any truing or tinkering, whereas others have stated that their Smiths have had to do some work to get the Montana actions ready to go.
3. One can subscribe now and get a Montana for $525 and yours is going to cost a thousand bucks.
Hey blue, here's some 3-D images of what we're working on right now, which is the short-action to begin with, but haven't made the modifications to these prints to reflect the M70 inletting design. I've got quite a workload ahead of me until at least June of this year, so she's gonna get put on hold until then..Once I'm ought of my current fires, all my attention will be towards getting this line of actions off the ground. The manufacturing of our extractors was perhaps the biggest hurdle of them all, and it's going like clockwork.
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That double square bridge is absolutely gorgeous. Stay well, take care of yourself, and I sincerely hope you get this project off the ground. Let me know when you start taking orders!!!!
MATT what type of extractor/ejector system are you going to use..I HOPE ITS NOT THE SAME AS THE WINCHESTER..... or will this action have a mauser ejector/extractor system regards daniel
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Quote: MATT what type of extractor/ejector system are you going to use..I HOPE ITS NOT THE SAME AS THE WINCHESTER..... or will this action have a mauser ejector/extractor system regards daniel
The extractor will be almost a dead ringer for the Model 70, but the ejector and bolt release will be very similar to the Mauser 98.
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MATT i screwed up my question i meant to ask will the bolt stop not the extractor be the same as the mauser 98 .....thanks for the repley ... can you expand on the way the bolt stop/ejector will work on your rifle will the left lug be split like the M 98 will you have a C ring in the front reciver daniel
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Quote: MATT i screwed up my question i meant to ask will the bolt stop not the extractor be the same as the mauser 98 .....thanks for the repley ... can you expand on the way the bolt stop/ejector will work on your rifle will the left lug be split like the M 98 will you have a C ring in the front reciver daniel
The ejector and bolt stop will work nearly identical to the Mauser 98, except for the flat spring system that Paul Mauser used. We'll be using a stainless, laser cut ejector and a stainless coil spring in it's place. The outside of the bolt release will look very similiar to the 98, it'll just work smoother.
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Quote: MATT sorry matt just another question will the front reciver have the C ring like the M 98 daniel
Sorry I skipped over this question earlier.....It will be the M70-style breaching system. My father and I have been threatening to build a reciprocating broach for building a true 98 style system, but that will be a ways down the road I'm afraid. Many of the big bore smiths have noted that the m70 breach lends itself better to reliable feeding when working with the big heavy bullets, and what I've seen myself, I'd have to agree. Obviously, not everyone is shooting elephant killers, but then again, a lot of the same rules apply in the small calibers as well.
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