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It has taken the engineering excellence of Ed Brown
Custom to finally successfully blend the advantages of
both push feed and conventional controlled feed into
one new action - the Model 704. It's a design never
before seen on a bolt action rifle. Completely
controlled feed, but without the disadvantages of the
long extractor Mauser/Winchester design. Retaining
100% barrel threads, and complete receiver integrity,
this design offers genuine controlled feed
reliability. Plus, it still has a counterbored chamber
with the bolt partially surrounded by bolt face steel.
Our spring loaded extractor is integral with the bolt,
and rotates with it, to position the extractor under
the cartridge for full support inside the chamber,
thus placing the bullet in a perfect position for it’s
exit.

Since the age of the 1898 Mauser, there has been a
demand for the controlled feed action. Winchester has
possibly done more than anyone to promote the
advantage of the controlled feed design. When hunting
dangerous game, where feeding could be a life or death
situation, the controlled feed design has become the
choice of many professional hunters.

Of course, dangerous game guns have never required a
high degree of accuracy. One does not need a half MOA
accurate 458 for stopping a charging Buffalo at fifty
yards..

Much like reliability has been the realm of the
Mauser/Winchester controlled feed action, accuracy has
been the forte of the Remington push feed design. One
finds the Remington push feed design to be the choice
of benchrest shooters worldwide. This is due to their
extreme accuracy inherent in the round receiver push
feed design.

A Mauser/Winchester type controlled feed long
extractor requires the removal of a large portion of
the barrel threads where the extractor must go.
Removing barrel threads is not the way to the most
rigid assembly. This larger receiver cut also removes
precious metal inside the receiver which is
detrimental to the rigidity, and thus the accuracy of
the entire assembly.

The M-704 has 100% uninterrupted barrel threads in a
round receiver, for maximum rigidity and strength. Yet
our massive steel extractor allows for true controlled
feeding. Our new M-704 design couples the best designs
of both worlds, while eliminating the problem areas.
It's our finest accomplishment yet.

Mauser's can do better than 1/2 MOA, so why is this action needed?

Price? If 2500$ I would rather buy a Graninte mountain. Looks better on a DG rifle!

needed or not its another opiton. I am not one to say mausers and Winchesters are not acurate, of my 14 rifles only 1 is push feed.
But True or not the perception that push feed actions are more accurate is clearly common and MR, Brown will me probly do well with this design...tj3006

Major Caliber, have you heard when the Lafayette range will be completed. I have really missed going to your fair City for BR matches for the last 3-4 yrs. It was the highlight of the year for shooters around the USA. Great food and great people. Butch

I may be ignorant but I did not believ there was a problem with the mauser style claw of a M70 or M98

Lets see... how many Mauser 98 actions can i get for 2400.00 ?

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The Url doesnt show the action, just a catalog. whats up?

This looks like it may be a knockoff of the controlled push-feed model 70 that has been out for a couple of years. Their engineers may really be pirates!

Hopefully with better positioning for ejection...but isn’t this just a Remington style bolt with the Sako/M16 style extractor installed???

Not to slight his work or his products...but it has always bothered me when this company sells a rifle named “M40A2 Marine Sniper.â€

The receiver looks like a round body. The bottom lip of the bolt face looks to machined away such as on controlled push feed actions. I could be wrong?

This action uses a solid pinned, M16-type, wide flanged, rotating extractor (not narrow and riveted, BTW, like that Remington POS), along with an open bolt face (i.e., no lip) on the bottom of the bolt head and a fixed blade ejector (not a plunger, like that Remington POS).

It is a highly precision-made (i.e., trued-up and CNC machined), controlled round feed, positive ejecting action. Very nice.

Remington extractors haven’t been rivited (except for some magnum calibers) for quite sometime now.

Quite apart from whether it was worth designing and putting this action in production, and quite apart from the quality of the Ed Brown products, the last time I enquired with the Ed Brown company whether they offered their actions (only) for sale to the public, the answer was "no". So unless that policy has changed of late, you'll have to buy an entire rifle to obtain this new action. That may be well be worth while, their products are supposedly of good quality, but it is probably better to be aware under which conditions this action can be obtained.

- mike

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Originally posted by mho:
Quite apart from whether it was worth designing and putting this action in production, and quite apart from the quality of the Ed Brown products, the last time I enquired with the Ed Brown company whether they offered their actions (only) for sale to the public, the answer was "no". So unless that policy has changed of late, you'll have to buy an entire rifle to obtain this new action. That may be well be worth while, their products are supposedly of good quality, but it is probably better to be aware under which conditions this action can be obtained.

- mike

Exactly, and since all they've done is knock off the Controlled Round/Push Feed from USRAC, which knocked it off from Savage, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to get a M70 CRPF and have it accurized.