I have seen post on all these new mauser action, which one do you think would work best in a 7mm rem mag. CZ, charles daly,the one imported by EAA sports, or the one from Legacy. thanks for your info.
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I would choose one of the CZ actions, unless I needed the one of the Charles Daly action sizes (I do) or needed stainless. The CD's are nice actions, but The CZ's are polished better and are square bridge. The CD's have thus far only shipped as actions and in field grade rifles, and you can not judge the actions by those on the field grade rifles which are left pretty crude to hit their price point. The EAA and Legacy seem to be in about the same class as the CD field grade.
Allow me to temper my opinions with the caveat that I am a long way from a Mauser expert and have been learning from the development of my new rifle/cartridge and the forums. I did, however, closely examine each of these at the recent NRA Convention.
My gunsmith, Dave Gentry, had one of the new ones in his shop the other day when I was there. Still, for the money, they're a lot of rifle! The "rough" aspects can certainly be cleaned up. For the money, they're a lot of gun. I don't believe the stainless versions are available yet. Apparently the rifles are being modified by the importer to allow the bolt to be opened with the safety in the "on" position.
If I was building a "custom" rifle, wanted CRF and stainless, I'd go the Win 70 route first and Ruger M77 MKII second... they already have a three-position safety (the Mark X does not) that locks the bolt in "safe" as well as allowing the bolt to be opened while on safe when in the middle position. Used, these can be had quite reasonably. To "upgrade" the MarkX to a three position would be expensive... around $300.
