New Canadian Custom Target Action...sooon!

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I may have my nards removed for spilling too much info, in fact I expect a nasty email tonight :)

Anyway, Two well-know Canadian custom gun builder/fabricator/machinist gurus have collaborated for a great deal of time on a new design for a single-shot custom bolt action. This will incorporate a few of the best concepts from a variety of existing actions including an R700 footprint, but everything will be 100% made for this action. The materials have been ordered!

It will incorporate an integrated picatinny rail, accept common match triggers and will have interchangeable bolt system. It will have a 3-lug design, an integrated recoil lug and have just over a thou of bolt clearance! True custom tolerances.

the BEST news is the price will come in under a grand.

Adams Lake Rifle Barrels will be making preparations (becoming a firearms dealer) to sell these actions. I am also hoping to have my hands on one soon to campaign out on the F-Class circuit.

There will finally be another choice out there for Canadian precision fullbore shooters!

I can't sleep!!
 
What MOA on the rail?

Could it be cut to accept AW mags? The cut looks like this:

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Morning after now.. still have nards? ;-)

"accept common match triggers" I assume to mean Remington-style? Will it use a trigger hanger, or pin into the receiver?

Will the "<$1K" price include a trigger, or be without a trigger?

Will the loading port be relatively large, or a small-as-possible design? Long action, short action, or both?

Comparable in weight to a R700, or quite a bit heavier?

Same breeching as R700, or different? (i.e. can you screw on R700 barrels, or does it use a longer thread?)

Sorry for all the questions. As you say, this is great news.
 
Good to

hear Ian.

The thing from my way of looking at it from the Benchrest world depending on the bolt system and NOT having and Integral Rail it may be something that the BR crowd may be able to look at.

I would think it would be quite easy to manufacture without the rail as well to accept just bases and rings?

Kombayotch,
He did say SINGLE SHOT action....................

CBY
 
Its as easy to add the mag cutout as it is to remove the rail. ;)

If it doesn't require changing anything else, it has more appeal and a bigger market, which should help lower cost. It would be a good "option". Don't worry, I'm not saying it shouldn't be single shot.
 
Now you tell me, after I've been 4 months trying to get my Lawton from the States.
Sounds like they could be on to something.
 
With 1 thou clearance I am pretty sure it would not be an action one would want to use as a repeater. That is mighty tight.

It is nice and would be nice if there would be someone willing to cater to the few of us who shoot Benchrest. Yes the market is not LARGE but small. Having the option for a action here in Canada would be nice.
 
I still have my nards - so far.

This is - as the title says - a SINGLE SHOT TARGET ACTION - It is being designed by and for fullbore shooters. Yes, the market segment is small, but then so is the operation that will be producing them. You have to know the two guys to apprecate the fact that they are both geniuses in their fields and are both perfectionists.
 
cycbb486 said:
With 1 thou clearance I am pretty sure it would not be an action one would want to use as a repeater. That is mighty tight.
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If the bolt's cross section is not round but elliptical (or three-lobed) and it rides in a non-round hole in the action, it can be made to have very close clearances in the fully closed and locked position, but still have generous clearances (and easy operation even with dirt) in the opened position.

I would assume that this sort of approach (or something like it?) will have been taken.

Will be interesting to see how the price and features end up stacking up against other current good choices that are available (e.g. a Barnard with a trigger is $1200-ish the last time I checked...?).

Best of luck to the two as-of-yet-unnamed builders, I hope they do this right and I hope they make some good money at it too.
 
I like the integrated rail part but why picatinny if it can only be had in a single shot? Make it a dove tail or drill for mounts and save more time, meaning money. A picatinny hints of tactical and a repeater option would be nice for tactical builds. Just my 2 cents worth.
 
Doing it ENTIRELY themselves. Not even the firing pins are contracted-out.

Integrated rail is a very popular concept amongs F-Class shooters and I think it is fair to say this is the target market: ultimate 900M precision seekers.
 
Sounds like a great idea at a great price......The headache to get a manufacturers license along with getting them listed on FRT and all of the other paper BS is quite an undertaking...congrats to them.
 
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