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<blockquote data-quote="Fiftydriver" data-source="post: 427593" data-attributes="member: 10"><p>Phorwath,</p><p> </p><p>You are certainly correct in that the Seekins rail is a good one and very light. I use ALOT of them on my Borden based custom rifles for customers.</p><p> </p><p>My desire to have an open topped receiver design on my Raptor Stalker IS to drop some weight but also to allow the use of internal mag boxes that are loaded from the top. The relatively small ejection port on the current Raptor design greatly limits the ability to top load a magazine such as a Wyatt extended mag box, especially with any chambering the diameter of a RUM or larger.</p><p> </p><p>The open top would GREATLY improve the ability to top feed this receiver and the plan to have a two piece base also frees up this area to load big fat cartridges in a haste if needed. </p><p> </p><p>My main concern with a two piece base is not keeping them solid, two pins in each base will certainly keep things plenty solid. My main concern is proper alignment with the receiver. With a one piece rail, its no issue at all, with two pieces, may have to do a bit more ring lapping but there are methods to getting things extremely close to begin with, then pin and your pretty much there.</p><p> </p><p>Again, you are certainly correct, Seekins rails are very light and very good quality, I would still have to pin them in my larger chamberings especially with the PK muzzle brake.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks for your input as always, great points.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fiftydriver, post: 427593, member: 10"] Phorwath, You are certainly correct in that the Seekins rail is a good one and very light. I use ALOT of them on my Borden based custom rifles for customers. My desire to have an open topped receiver design on my Raptor Stalker IS to drop some weight but also to allow the use of internal mag boxes that are loaded from the top. The relatively small ejection port on the current Raptor design greatly limits the ability to top load a magazine such as a Wyatt extended mag box, especially with any chambering the diameter of a RUM or larger. The open top would GREATLY improve the ability to top feed this receiver and the plan to have a two piece base also frees up this area to load big fat cartridges in a haste if needed. My main concern with a two piece base is not keeping them solid, two pins in each base will certainly keep things plenty solid. My main concern is proper alignment with the receiver. With a one piece rail, its no issue at all, with two pieces, may have to do a bit more ring lapping but there are methods to getting things extremely close to begin with, then pin and your pretty much there. Again, you are certainly correct, Seekins rails are very light and very good quality, I would still have to pin them in my larger chamberings especially with the PK muzzle brake. Thanks for your input as always, great points. [/QUOTE]
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