Bill Calfee
Gun Fool
Interesting centerfire benchrest action
CYA friends:
Yes, CYA is a rimfire accuracy advancement place........
And I've been away from CFBR for a lot of years now, and will never return.........
But, that doesn't mean that I'm not interested in centerfire accuracy advancement, too......
It's been interesting watching our centerfire friends stumble though their adaptation of my muzzle device, trying to re-invent the wheel, when everything about MD's has been laid at their feet........all they have to do is use it.......but, they have to do it "their way".....which means taking about 10 years longer than they needed to, to realize the full benefit of a muzzle device.....
One day down the road, our centerfire friends will look at one another, and in unison proclaim, "we could have done this 10 years ago, if we'd just listened"....
They'll get it right one day.............( In fairness, there are a few CFBR folks who are starting to get the picture)
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Now, something kinda, no very, interesting in the way of centerfire benchrest actions:
I know absolutely nothing about this new action, save for a few comments I read.....
But, as I understand it, this is a dual lug, now get this, horizontal lock-up action, and of course front lockup...
Since it will use the Remingtion pattern trigger, it will have to, what else is there, means that at least some portion of both locking lugs will be in contact while the action is "at battery"................
Unlike vertical lock-up actions which do not have equal locking lug contact with the action at battery...............( I'm sorry, but, if there's enough clearance for the breech bolt to function, then on a vertical lockup action both lugs never have equal contact, even with the "tricks" that folks have used over the years, including me, to try to make both lugs contact equally when the action is at battery)
So this horizontal lockup is going to be most interesting............
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And something else from the comments I've read about this action:
A new fire control system?
Could we see some momentum dependency here, like our rimfire TCA's?
One reason that the Turbo Class Actions dominate rimfire benchrest, is their momentum dependent, PAS ignition system, and of course there is no PAS/SAP issue in centerfire, as they are lucky to have the firing pin strike in the middle of the case, and, against a nice, soft, brass anvil.....whereas we in rimfire have to deal with that steel anvil and the firing pin striking the rim.....
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This new centerfire benchrest action is most interesting.......that horizontal lockup is really most interesting.....
Your friend, Bill Calfee
PS: I'll be very interesting to hear Lynn's take on this new action, as he's a centerfire guy.....bc
CYA friends:
Yes, CYA is a rimfire accuracy advancement place........
And I've been away from CFBR for a lot of years now, and will never return.........
But, that doesn't mean that I'm not interested in centerfire accuracy advancement, too......
It's been interesting watching our centerfire friends stumble though their adaptation of my muzzle device, trying to re-invent the wheel, when everything about MD's has been laid at their feet........all they have to do is use it.......but, they have to do it "their way".....which means taking about 10 years longer than they needed to, to realize the full benefit of a muzzle device.....
One day down the road, our centerfire friends will look at one another, and in unison proclaim, "we could have done this 10 years ago, if we'd just listened"....
They'll get it right one day.............( In fairness, there are a few CFBR folks who are starting to get the picture)
_____________________________________
Now, something kinda, no very, interesting in the way of centerfire benchrest actions:
I know absolutely nothing about this new action, save for a few comments I read.....
But, as I understand it, this is a dual lug, now get this, horizontal lock-up action, and of course front lockup...
Since it will use the Remingtion pattern trigger, it will have to, what else is there, means that at least some portion of both locking lugs will be in contact while the action is "at battery"................
Unlike vertical lock-up actions which do not have equal locking lug contact with the action at battery...............( I'm sorry, but, if there's enough clearance for the breech bolt to function, then on a vertical lockup action both lugs never have equal contact, even with the "tricks" that folks have used over the years, including me, to try to make both lugs contact equally when the action is at battery)
So this horizontal lockup is going to be most interesting............
___________________________________
And something else from the comments I've read about this action:
A new fire control system?
Could we see some momentum dependency here, like our rimfire TCA's?
One reason that the Turbo Class Actions dominate rimfire benchrest, is their momentum dependent, PAS ignition system, and of course there is no PAS/SAP issue in centerfire, as they are lucky to have the firing pin strike in the middle of the case, and, against a nice, soft, brass anvil.....whereas we in rimfire have to deal with that steel anvil and the firing pin striking the rim.....
_______________________________________
This new centerfire benchrest action is most interesting.......that horizontal lockup is really most interesting.....
Your friend, Bill Calfee
PS: I'll be very interesting to hear Lynn's take on this new action, as he's a centerfire guy.....bc
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