Oddly enough I kind of like it...
Shop has these on clearance, then they had a no tax and free shipping day, so I had to jump on it...sucker for cheap #### $327.77 to my door. They have them in 30'06, 7mm mag, 300 win mag. Have too many '06, and it's quite light so I figured 300 mag would be miserable, so opted for 7mm.
The barreled action is quite nice, very nicely made and smoothly machined, zero tool marks anywhere, very big beefy recoil lug. Bolt is smooth and not as sloppy as I was expecting. On a surprise note, it came with the fluted bolt like the Patriots have, not the solid one in the pic, and the bolt knob is checkered top and bottom as well, not smooth. Bolt assembly is pretty much 100% copy of a 783. They also notched the bolt head so it locks in the bolt body as a safety measure in the event the pin breaks, which may or may not have caused some catastrophic events when they were first released lol.
The stock is weird and ugly as hell...the butt, action area, and most of the forestock are decent solid polymer, similar to the 783 stocks (better then Axis/American for example) but there is a seperate add on nose cap that is pretty flimsy and margarine container quality, don't think it will affect anything but I will keep an eye on it. Butt pad is thick and good density, molded in sling swivels like the 783 are meh, shorter LOP then I'm use to. Balance is good, nice slim rifle overall to shoulder, nice light weight to it too.
Trigger is fine, like the accutrgger, 783, etc, nothing remarkable but nothing to complain about. Safety is same as a 700.
Mags are pretty sad. They are cheap plastic, but at least spares are cheap and not crazy expensive like most of the other budget rifle spare mags.
Should be able to try it out soon. I'll get better pics up later, just picked it up this morning and cleaned it up. I should have bought 2 lol.
Shop has these on clearance, then they had a no tax and free shipping day, so I had to jump on it...sucker for cheap #### $327.77 to my door. They have them in 30'06, 7mm mag, 300 win mag. Have too many '06, and it's quite light so I figured 300 mag would be miserable, so opted for 7mm.
The barreled action is quite nice, very nicely made and smoothly machined, zero tool marks anywhere, very big beefy recoil lug. Bolt is smooth and not as sloppy as I was expecting. On a surprise note, it came with the fluted bolt like the Patriots have, not the solid one in the pic, and the bolt knob is checkered top and bottom as well, not smooth. Bolt assembly is pretty much 100% copy of a 783. They also notched the bolt head so it locks in the bolt body as a safety measure in the event the pin breaks, which may or may not have caused some catastrophic events when they were first released lol.
The stock is weird and ugly as hell...the butt, action area, and most of the forestock are decent solid polymer, similar to the 783 stocks (better then Axis/American for example) but there is a seperate add on nose cap that is pretty flimsy and margarine container quality, don't think it will affect anything but I will keep an eye on it. Butt pad is thick and good density, molded in sling swivels like the 783 are meh, shorter LOP then I'm use to. Balance is good, nice slim rifle overall to shoulder, nice light weight to it too.
Trigger is fine, like the accutrgger, 783, etc, nothing remarkable but nothing to complain about. Safety is same as a 700.
Mags are pretty sad. They are cheap plastic, but at least spares are cheap and not crazy expensive like most of the other budget rifle spare mags.
Should be able to try it out soon. I'll get better pics up later, just picked it up this morning and cleaned it up. I should have bought 2 lol.
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