SCSA Taipan Rifle - .223 Wylde

I tried mine out the other day finally and I quite like it. It’s more accurate then I thought it would be using bulk 223 and using a holosun green circle dot
I think it will have some good potential with a load worked up for it
 
I imported a 2 stage trigger kit from Victor Precision in Australia. I started the process back in December and it was finally delivered today. It took a while to get an export certificate before they could ship it but they took care of everything.

It’s a simple drop-in installation that only took a few minutes. First impressions from dry firing are really good. Very very smooth first stage with an extremely clean break. My pull gauge measures it right around 2.5lbs.

I’ve shot about 3-400 rounds with the stock trigger without any issues, although the stock pull weight definitely made me shy away from trying much precision shooting. (especially when I knew I had a better trigger on the way.) I’m looking forward to trying the rifle out at longer distances with the new trigger.

https://imgur.com/sz440mC
 
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JEDelta said:
I imported a 2 stage trigger kit from Victor Precision in Australia. I started the process back in December and it was finally delivered today. It took a while to get an export certificate before they could ship it but they took care of everything.

It’s a simple drop-in installation that only took a few minutes. First impressions from dry firing are really good. Very very smooth first stage with an extremely clean break. My pull gauge measures it right around 2.5lbs.

I’ve shot about 3-400 rounds with the stock trigger without any issues, although the stock pull weight definitely made me shy away from trying much precision shooting. (especially when I knew I had a better trigger on the way.) I’m looking forward to trying the rifle out at longer distances with the new trigger.

https://imgur.com/sz440mC
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Damn, now I'm going to have to get one of those trigger groups. When my wife asks what is in the parcel from Australia I'm blaming you.
 
Ran into these in the wild a couple weeks ago at a gun show. To be honest the credit card was coming out, and then I worked the action, and I worked the action again...no bolt lock when one is in the chamber? Reading through here I see that someone mentioned that if you pull back on the pump at all it will actually come out of battery and won't fire. I just couldn't do it - I don't know if I could trust it.

I really, really wanted this one, but I like the fact that on every other pump I own, when I rack one into the chamber it's locked up tight until I either fire the round or manually unlock the action. I don't know, maybe it's not a big deal, but it sure caught me off guard, and meant that I came home without it.
 
KePet said:
Ran into these in the wild a couple weeks ago at a gun show. To be honest the credit card was coming out, and then I worked the action, and I worked the action again...no bolt lock when one is in the chamber? Reading through here I see that someone mentioned that if you pull back on the pump at all it will actually come out of battery and won't fire. I just couldn't do it - I don't know if I could trust it.

I really, really wanted this one, but I like the fact that on every other pump I own, when I rack one into the chamber it's locked up tight until I either fire the round or manually unlock the action. I don't know, maybe it's not a big deal, but it sure caught me off guard, and meant that I came home without it.
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I totally understand where you are coming from. I had previously used a Troy PAR and I initially felt very similar to how you do, that a bolt lock was missing.

However after using it for a while, I don’t really think it’s as big of a deal as I initially thought. The bolt appears to function identically to an AR-15 bolt, rotating with a cam pin to lock the lugs. The bolt has to be fully compressed in order for the firing pin to protrude enough to strike the primer, and the bolt face remains against the chamber the entire time the cam pin is causing it to rotate. The bolt face only leaves the chamber once the bolt is fully extended, preventing the firing pin from protruding at any point when the bolt face is not in contact with the chamber. The bolt carrier geometry would also prevent the hammer from making contact with the firing pin well before the bolt face is “out of battery”

In the end, I chalked it up to being similar to an AR-15 or a spring-assisted straight-pull, like the MRA renegade. The only thing that keeps the bolt forward is the buffer spring. There is no bolt lock that prevents you from pulling the charging handle. The only difference is that you generally don’t have you hand on the charging handle while firing, unlike the Taipan.

Ive been running the pump firmly, like you normally would to prevent short stroking a 12ga, and I haven’t had any issues even while trying to “mag dump”
 
Fig33 said:
Damn, now I'm going to have to get one of those trigger groups. When my wife asks what is in the parcel from Australia I'm blaming you.
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I told them to contact North Sylva, who imported the rifles to begin with. I figure it’s a solution to a common enough complaint with the rifle, it’s bound to get some people interested. No idea if that went anywhere, but I’m sure it would be cheaper if they imported a bunch. The shipping costs were painful 😬
 
JEDelta said:
I told them to contact North Sylva, who imported the rifles to begin with. I figure it’s a solution to a common enough complaint with the rifle, it’s bound to get some people interested. No idea if that went anywhere, but I’m sure it would be cheaper if they imported a bunch. The shipping costs were painful 😬
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Maybe Triggertech could make something locally to fit?
 
yomomma said:
They are bloody expensive at $600
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It came out to be $650 total shipped for me. That included 180$ AUD for shipping and whatever my bank charged me for the exchange rate.

Australian prices include VAT, which we don’t pay, so it winds up being about 10% cheaper than the listed price.

Still bloody expensive, but I bet if a distributor like North Sylva was able to make a deal, they might actually be a reasonable price. Australian prices seem to be pretty inflated. The Taipan X looks to be selling for about $1500 CAD over there, meanwhile Bullseye North currently has them on sale for less than $1200 over here. So I bet it could apply to the trigger as well.
 
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I really don’t like the fact that it doesn’t lock into battery when the pump is forward. I have shot the rem7600 for 25years and it just doesn’t make sense to me they didn’t design it so it doesn’t lock into battery and release with the trigger being pulled or a lever being activated.
 
frogger said:
I really don’t like the fact that it doesn’t lock into battery when the pump is forward. I have shot the rem7600 for 25years and it just doesn’t make sense to me they didn’t design it so it doesn’t lock into battery and release with the trigger being pulled or a lever being activated.
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It's designed like a semi auto that is manually operated.

I can see short stroking being a problem but that is a problem with pumps in general, to varying degrees.
 
Gatehouse said:
It's designed like a semi auto that is manually operated.

I can see short stroking being a problem but that is a problem with pumps in general, to varying degrees.
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Any pump action I have ever shot locks into battery and the only way to release it from battery is to pull the trigger or activate the slide release. This gun does not lock u to battery. It is covered in the reviews.
 
frogger said:
Any pump action I have ever shot locks into battery and the only way to release it from battery is to pull the trigger or activate the slide release. This gun does not lock u to battery. It is covered in the reviews.
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Yeah but why is this a real concern? A semi like an AR15 doesn’t require you to pull the trigger or a button to open the action. Neither does a lever action or bolt action for that matter.
 
Gatehouse said:
Yeah but why is this a real concern? A semi like an AR15 doesn’t require you to pull the trigger or a button to open the action. Neither does a lever action or bolt action for that matter.
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I could see how the shooter grips the front furniture being an issue. If they do a push-pull grip and it causes them to pull back the action slightly and take the gun out of battery. But that boils down to operator error essentially. It's still nice to have the action dummy proof sometimes.
 
“It’s no different than a semi-automatic” but it is. With an AR-15 all that holds the bolt in place is the buffer spring - true. And they work fine - you bet. But I’m not holding onto the charging handle while I’m shooting it. With a lever, the lever is closed and there is a safety that ensures that it won’t fire if the lever isn’t closed. Bolts are designed so that you can’t shoot them with the bolt closed halfway. I’ve owned numerous pump shotguns, a couple of 760’s and even a 7615, and all lock up when a round is chambered. I’m not trying to disparage this rifle or put it down. As has been mentioned there are a bunch of rifles out there that use the same principle. I’m just saying that I’m not comfortable with it.

And yes, I understand all the mechanical principles that will keep it from firing out of battery. I also understand that Murphy has a way of making stuff happen that shouldn’t. And much like the vaunted Remington 700 that would miraculously fire when you took it off of safe - it wasn’t a problem for years…and then it was.
 
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