Push feed vs controlled feed
- Thread starter Victor Simon
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A single stack magazine is the saviour of push feed rifles. I spoke with a very well known push feed accuracy gunsmith in the US about his use of single stack magazines. His main praise of them was the single stack elimination of feeding issues.
There's a lot of le/mil 700 based actions that have seen hard use in theater across the world. As much as everyone wants to play Hemingway with their CRF, I would expect that if this was a real issue there or in the Savannah the push feed actions would have between dumped years ago.
That being said, I like a good claw extractor as much as the next guy.
That being said, I like a good claw extractor as much as the next guy.
smokeater40
CGN Regular
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- Southern, Ontario
There should be a "Don't Care" button, as for me it depends on the rifle I am using.
They do exist... usually they have been worked over, or they have thousands of rounds through them.
Have several Dane M69's that are 6.5x55 target rifles built on K98's. You don't even feel the round chambering it.
Another one is an FN98 rechambered from 9.3x57 to 9.3x62, it was worked over and feeds like butter.
sauer 90, 80, or 200 and 202 are great but do not get caught with a frozen bolt ...
if you have a tv stay few days in a row actionning the action and you will see how smooth it become.
The only time I have made pushfeeds jam while being held sideways or upside down was working the bolt slowly or using a short action length cartridge in a long action. (Some guns use one length action for all their chamberings, but many put a spacer in the back of the mag to fix this)). I own almost all CRF actions, but if you work a pushfeed briskly, they just dont ereally feed poorly IMHO.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I had a Sauer 202 Forest I nearly took lion hunting, opted for another rifle but not because the 202 isn’t nice. While silky, an Oberndorf commercial sporting M98 is no different for smoothness and effortlessness in cycling. There are a lot of good CRFs as smooth as my 202 was, but you have to spend 202 money on them go figure.
The current new production M70s are very damn smooth too, not 202 smooth but they aren’t 202 priced either. And I’d still choose the M70 for dangerous game.
"Smooth" is not one of the criteria that I"m overly concerned about in a hunting rifle. No, I don't want an action that is gritty or binding or some other sort of defect but there are other things more important to me than being silky smooth. It's not like I am going to notice smoothness when operating a bolt in a hunting situation.
