Cadex sheep dog action
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Lee Enfield
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I played with one at EM Precision.
Nice action, I'd like to see a rifle, the bare action seemed to need a lot of force to cam the bolt open.
Are they not available? I chambered a barrel for one over a month ago. I know it was supposed to be the first one in the wild. But I figured the rest of them would be right behind it on the way out the door.
My personal opinion is that it is a nice, well built action. However I noticed a couple things I wasn't a huge fan of while putting the rifle together.
-First one being the length of the bolt knob. It hangs way out there, too far IMO. Maybe to make the bolt lift seem less heavy due to the 50 degree bolt throw? (I see that on their website it says multiple bolt knob options, maybe they have a different length?)
-Their website says it will run a 3.055" short action mag. The action I worked on was dropped into an AICS chassis and using an AI mag with out a front plate, I am almost certain that bullets would catch the bottom of the action. However I will have to get more pictures from the owner to confirm this 100%.
-Stupid barrel tennon thread pitch, Remington uses 16 TPI, Savage and many others run 20 TPI, Cadex runs 18 TPI. Just to make sure you can't put any easy to find pre fit on there.
-The recoil lug is not integral, it does use a locating pin similar to a savage. To me this doesn't matter, to others it might.
Possible advantages to the Ultimatum IMO
- Floating/ Replaceable bolt head.
- 60 Degree bolt throw (I think much less than this is getting into the point of diminishing returns)
- 20 TPI barrel tennon.
- Will accept AW mags (not sure if Cadex does, but does not say so on website)
- Integral recoil lug, if you care about that.
Having said this I have not seen the new Ultimatum action so I can't give an honest apples to apples opinion on the pair.
My personal opinion is that it is a nice, well built action. However I noticed a couple things I wasn't a huge fan of while putting the rifle together.
-First one being the length of the bolt knob. It hangs way out there, too far IMO. Maybe to make the bolt lift seem less heavy due to the 50 degree bolt throw? (I see that on their website it says multiple bolt knob options, maybe they have a different length?)
-Their website says it will run a 3.055" short action mag. The action I worked on was dropped into an AICS chassis and using an AI mag with out a front plate, I am almost certain that bullets would catch the bottom of the action. However I will have to get more pictures from the owner to confirm this 100%.
-Stupid barrel tennon thread pitch, Remington uses 16 TPI, Savage and many others run 20 TPI, Cadex runs 18 TPI. Just to make sure you can't put any easy to find pre fit on there.
-The recoil lug is not integral, it does use a locating pin similar to a savage. To me this doesn't matter, to others it might.
Possible advantages to the Ultimatum IMO
- Floating/ Replaceable bolt head.
- 60 Degree bolt throw (I think much less than this is getting into the point of diminishing returns)
- 20 TPI barrel tennon.
- Will accept AW mags (not sure if Cadex does, but does not say so on website)
- Integral recoil lug, if you care about that.
Having said this I have not seen the new Ultimatum action so I can't give an honest apples to apples opinion on the pair.
