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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics
Rifle action length.
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<blockquote data-quote="MagnumManiac" data-source="post: 2032735" data-attributes="member: 10755"><p>The bolt length thing is moot, rack it fast and there is no difference.</p><p>I do not believe stiffness matters, it is the alignment of action to barrel and how square it all is in relation to bolt centreline, nothing else. Bolt lug engagement is paramount, it must be square, it doesn't have to be perfectly equal on both lugs, but close to it.</p><p>As to performance on a short action with long action cartridges,..I don't know about this. I go the other way, I build short action stuff on long action rifles to get MORE performance from them.</p><p>Currently building a 6.5GAP 4S (aka 6.5 SAUM) on a long action Rem 700, this is totally overkill as the action is so long that I don't need a 3.7" mag or the length for feeding/extracting rounds, but it won't hurt either.</p><p></p><p>Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MagnumManiac, post: 2032735, member: 10755"] The bolt length thing is moot, rack it fast and there is no difference. I do not believe stiffness matters, it is the alignment of action to barrel and how square it all is in relation to bolt centreline, nothing else. Bolt lug engagement is paramount, it must be square, it doesn’t have to be perfectly equal on both lugs, but close to it. As to performance on a short action with long action cartridges,..I don’t know about this. I go the other way, I build short action stuff on long action rifles to get MORE performance from them. Currently building a 6.5GAP 4S (aka 6.5 SAUM) on a long action Rem 700, this is totally overkill as the action is so long that I don’t need a 3.7” mag or the length for feeding/extracting rounds, but it won’t hurt either. Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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