Looking at scrapping alot of excess and getting a new controlled round feed ed brown savanna with 704 action in 30/06...

Has anyone used this new action?

also what do you think of his GEN III ceramic coating? How well does it hold up?

accuracy of this new action?

any thoughts on his stuff?

one more try

http://www.edbrown.com/cgi-bin/htmlos.cgi/002304.1.036300531077377340


At one end of spectrum is the 98 Mauser.
At the other end of the spectrum is the Rem700.
Other bolt actions are somewhere in between.
The Ed Brown 704 claims to be in between.
It looks in between to me.

I like flat bottom receivers for guns with big recoil.
It is ok with me to skimp on cost and use a round bottom receiver for a .222Win.

I hate dealing with the unattached recoil lug.
When I put the barrel in a barrel vise attached to the bench and an action wrench on the action and screw them together, what keeps the recoil lug aligned with the action? It could react to the torque from the barrel and move. I could be frustrated. It is not going to be within .0001" of where it was when the glass bedding was put in the stock. They saved money in manufacturing a separate recoil lug, and now I get to chisel out glass around the lug in the stock.

how is the different from the new SAKO 85 "controlled round feed"

The bolt face is very similar to the semi-CRF solution that Savage used on the Ultra Mag chambered 110-116. The one on my son's left hand 111 works slick and reliable.