I want to play with making a short Kurtz length action and also a magnum length action. The Yugo M48 Actions seem to be fairly reasonably priced, and since original action length is not an issue, their odd-ball length does not matter. Also, if I screw up on the first few tries, I won't be out too much money. How is the quality of the Yugo M48 Actions?

The ones I've had seemed to be of pretty good quality. The one I currently have has just been rebarreled to 6mm Rem. Prior to it's current status it was an 8x57, 30-06, 308, and then back to 8x57. Other than the action being a tad short for the '06 it's worked just fine as a platform for a sporter.