This 2011 BMW 135i coupe is finished in Black Sapphire Metallic over Coral Red Boston leather and is powered by a turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six mated to a seven-speed DCT dual-clutch transmission. The car was first delivered to Fields BMW in Daytona Beach, Florida and was acquired in 2017 by the seller, who has added 37k of the 80k miles it now has. This E82 is now offered with service records, owner’s manuals, a window sticker, a clean Carfax report, and a clean Florida title in the seller’s name. This 1951 Jaguar XK120 roadster is a running project car that was reportedly purchased by the seller’s father in the early 1960s and subsequently acquired by the seller in 1975.

The Big Horn action features a floating bolt head, which is a popular feature among many precision marksmen. It also features a solid, one-piece bolt for strength, with a shorter handle that will fit into scabbards for all you horseback hunters. 😉 The integral 0.25” recoil lug gives a much longer barrel tenon, with more barrel/action engagement for a sturdier connection. Big Horn believes this aids in accuracy when using heavier barrels. Owned and operated by George Gardner, GA Precision has had a profound impact on the advancement of the practical precision rifle discipline. GA Precision actions are OEM manufactured by Defiance Machine (#3 on our list of actions) to GA Precision specifications. Their custom rifle builds are highly regarded and built with only the finest components available (the purchase of one of their M40 clones is on the author’s bucket list).

Sure, they may cost a little more, but their actually making less. Well, adding fall to the firing pin, while perhaps the best answer, is hard work. You might even have to redo the cams, maybe a little welding. Easier still to get a stronger spring, but I believe that’s not what that’s being done on some of the reworked actions. He has invented many of the features you see on today’s top custom actions, such as “Borden bumps”.

Bat Actions

Aero Precision’s roots are deeply tied to aerospace, and our drive for clean, perfect engineering and machining stems from that. When you’re building something that will fly in the air, there is no margin for error. Not every manufacturer will have razor thin tolerance levels. Not every manufacturer will personally oversee the development, design and machining of every part that comes off the line.

This 2018 Honda Civic Type R was originally delivered to Pohanka Honda of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and was recently acquired by the selling dealer. The car is finished in white over red and black cloth, and it is powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four mated to a six-speed manual transaxle with a limited-slip differential.

Modified 1970 Chevrolet C10 Pickup

This 1972 Chevrolet Corvette coupe is finished in Pewter Silver over black upholstery and is powered by a replacement 454ci V8 paired with a three-speed automatic transmission. Equipment includes removable body-color roof panels, 15″ Rallye-style wheels, power-assisted four-wheel disc brakes, power steering, and a Delco push-button radio. This 1972 Mercedes-Benz 350SL is finished in dark red over tan upholstery and powered by a 4.5-liter V8 paired with a three-speed automatic transmission. Equipment includes a tan soft top, a body-colored removable hardtop, 14″ steel wheels with painted covers, air conditioning, and a Becker Europa radio. This 1949 Dodge B-1-B is a half-ton pickup that is powered by a 218ci flathead inline-six paired with a three-speed manual transmission and is finished in red and black over brown vinyl. The truck features black steel wheels, a side-mounted spare tire, a split windshield, dual taillights, and a wood bed floor. This 1992 Audi S4 was first registered in New Jersey and remained with the original owner until the selling dealer’s acquisition in August 2021.

It includes a one-piece steel picatinny rail made by Badger Ordnance, which features a 20 MOA taper for long-range shots. 3 shooters in the top 50 were using Desert Tech actions. Saying that Desert Tech makes an action is an understatement … Desert Tech makes a versatile sniper rifle system named the Stealth Recon Scout A1 (SRS-A1). It has a unique bull-pup design that makes it nearly a foot shorter than traditional bolt action rifles with identical barrel lengths. The compact design shifts weight and center-of-gravity rearward, creating a well balanced and relatively short sniper rifle. Who wouldn’t like to save a cool hundred bucks, particularly on a BAT action?

The stock is a Shehane ST1000 thumbhole in an Obeche Indian Paint with several coats of high gloss clear. A Jewell trigger with a bottom safety adjusted to 6 ounces sets this rifle off. The scope is an 8-32X56 Sightron Slll sitting in a set of PRW rings on top of the Bat 20 MOA picatinny rail. Our customers will be satisfied with their Seekins purchase or we will make every effort necessary to achieve 100% customer satisfaction. Coupled with our lifetime repair or replace policy you know that Seekins always has you covered. An integrated rail bridges the top of the action, increasing rigidity.

AI’s double-stack magazine is a cool feature, and envied by shooters on other platforms. Many shooters aren’t aware AI actually has a few different magazines. The most common is probably the single-stack magazine, which is the standard supported by Remington 700 actions and others, like Surgeon, that are based on a similar design.

• I have owned a bunch of BR rifles over the past 10 or so years and I will have to say that the BAT and the new Borden RLR I have are very close to being the same.
• Featuring an easily swappable bolt head and a tenon designed to be compatible with any number of aftermarket Savage pre-fit barrels, Bighorn actions are a breeze to work on.
• This 1983 Mercedes-Benz 300D sedan is finished in blue over tan leather upholstery and is powered by a 3.0-liter turbodiesel inline-five paired with a four-speed automatic transmission.
• BAT makes a narrower lugged version exclusively for Wolf Precision called the BTA.

This 1950 Mercury Monterey coupe is powered by a 255ci V8 paired with a three-speed manual transmission and is finished in yellow with a black vinyl roof and black upholstery. Under previous ownership the car was refurbished, the suspension was modified and lowered, and the electrical system was converted to 12 volts. This 2000 Ferrari 360 Modena has been registered in California since new and is said to have been acquired from Los Gatos Luxury Cars by the current owner’s spouse in 2010.

Chevrolet Corvette Coupe 427

The 350ci Chevrolet V8 is said to have been refurbished along with the three-speed manual transmission, dual-range transfer case, suspension, front knuckles, and brakes. This 2005 Lotus Elise is finished in Storm Titanium Metallic over red leather and is powered by a 1.8-liter inline-four paired with a six-speed manual transaxle. Equipment includes a BOE Fabrication supercharger, an APR Performance rear wing, the Touring Pack, air conditioning, a Pioneer stereo, and two removable roof panels. This 1972 Triumph TR6 underwent a two-year refurbishment completed in 2007 that included a repaint in red over a reupholstered black vinyl interior and a rebuild of the 2.5-liter inline-six. Equipment includes a four-speed manual transmission with a J-type overdrive, dual carburetors, a black convertible top, an AM radio, and red-line tires. This Chevrolet Corvette is #64 of 68 examples modified by Callaway Cars of Old Lyme, Connecticut for the 1989 model year, 25 of which were convertibles.

They use advanced EDM technology and OCD manufacturing processes to achieve ridiculous tolerances. Every Defiance action starts as pre-hardened steel and then shape them by precisely shaving off tiny amounts of material.

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I have always been a fair shot no matter what discipline i have chosen. I have traveled the country shooting sporting clays, and trap/skeet, shooting darn near 800 rounds a week just for the weekends tournament. Smiths instrumentation includes a speedometer and a five-digit odometer that shows over 76k miles, approximately 7k of which reportedly have been added by the seller. A factory analog clock and a dual-band radio are retained. Factory steel wheels feature body-color, Bentley-branded wheel covers with chrome centers and are mounted with Coker whitewall tires. The suspension and brake systems were reportedly overhauled in 2007 by Ronny’s Garage of Santa Ana, California.

It is so little that the actions never have to be heat treated again, which is not the norm even among the top actions. The heat treat process can induce slight changes to the steel, which means you’re compromising some of those tight tolerances CNC machines are capable of. C&R- for firearms that fall under the ATF Curio & Relics licensing and if purchased by a person with a “C&R License” no paperwork is required. • Credit card purchases are limited to $50,000.00 per customer, per auction.

I’m not usually a fan of bright colors on a rifle, but I really, really liked that one. But this is coming from a guy with little long range shooting but with an engineering degree. I guess barrels…now that is where there can be some magic induced by the machinist.

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The car is finished in Deep Emerald Green Metallic over gray cloth and is powered by a 302ci V8 mated to a five-speed manual transmission and a limited-slip rear axle. This 1990 Mazda RX-7 convertible was purchased new by the seller’s father at Frank Myers Mazda in Anderson, South Carolina, and it was acquired by the seller in March 2021. The car is finished in Blaze Red over black leather, and power is provided by a 1.3-liter rotary engine paired with a four-speed automatic transmission.

In mechanical systems, the stationary ejector is on the receiver wall and the cartridge base hits it as the bolt is retracted, letting you toss brass or just dribble it out. Nice, if you like to collect your empties, rather than go search for them. An integral recoil lug is a benefit for the guy installing it, mitigating the need to line up and hold the lug in place during barrel installation. An integral lug also means fewer facets to machine and worry about squaring up. On the flip side, the holes drilled into the action to hold a dowelled lug in place can weaken the action in one of the most critical areas, just beneath the chamber. A free, unpinned lug might be better than a dowelled lug for strength, but clocking one during the barrel install is a PITA. The barrel interface in all the 700 actions presented is 1 1⁄16-inch with 16, 18, or 20 threads per inch.

Target Rifles

But don’t think that this is limited to one action manufacture. Always send a new action to a smith and have him check it all out….the little extra money you spend may save a lot of headaches. However, I think I have a ignition problem popping up in another action, it’s dropping shots low left and a friend said his spring went weak so I’m gonna check mine. Some may argue with me on this but I have found that actions with ignition problems would usually drop the shot low and left. Sometimes barely sticking out of a group, sometimes half a ring away or more.

Last week, I decided to take it off the Rail Gun and build a LV-Sporter on it. I chambered up a new Krieger, got it all set up in time to hit the Range Sunday. Make sure to tell him that you want a dedicated HV stock, if you are sure that you will never ever use the rifle as a LV. Don´t know if he makes one, but it sure doesn´t hurt to ask.

This 2013 Porsche 911 Carrera S coupe spent time in Texas and Arizona before its acquisition by the seller in October 2017. The car is finished in Platinum Silver Metallic over two-tone Platinum Grey and Black leather and is powered by a 3.8-liter flat-six paired with a seven-speed PDK dual-clutch automatic transaxle. This 1979 Jeep CJ-7 is finished in yellow over tan vinyl and is powered by a 304ci V8 paired with a three-speed manual transmission, and a dual-range transfer case.

Work included refinishing the exterior in two-tone blue and white, reupholstering the interior, updates of the suspension system, and installation of a 1,950cc flat-four. This 1968 Alfa Romeo GTV 1750 is a European-market example that that was imported from buy BAT Holland to the US in 2012 and later acquired by the selling dealer in 2020. The car recently underwent a refurbishment process that included a repaint in red, reupholstering the black vinyl interior, and rebuilding the 1,779cc Twin Cam inline-four.

The Surgeon shop moved from Prague, OK to Phoenix, AZ during the first part of 2014, which caused some initial delays. However, they seem to be hitting on all cylinders at this point. In fact, a few months ago Surgeon started selling actions again.

• That served as a major wake-up call for AI, and they instantly made radical changes in strategy and production.
• This 1953 Ford NAA Golden Jubilee tractor is finished in gray over a red chassis and running gear and powered by a 134ci gasoline inline-four linked with a four-speed manual transmission.
• But the actions, it seems that after they are trued, there shouldn’t be much difference in available accuracy.
• Ron has provided the best customer service that I have experienced in the last five years.
• The company gained popularity in the market with the release of the original VLTOR Modstock.

BAT Machine Co. in Idaho produces some of the most beautifully-machined, and smooth-running custom actions you can buy. There’s a reason so many world Benchrest and F-Class records have been set with BAT actions — they really are THAT good. The quality of machining, smoothness of bolt operation, precision of firing pin function, and general fit and finish are top-flight. Multi-layered safety system includes a double-radius firing pin, back-bored area behind the barrel threads, and full seal at the rear of the action. Also, the integral cocking handle helps contain bolt if it’s blasted rearward. Floating, interchangeable bolt head, patent-pending fully enclosed mechanical ejector, tool-less bolt disassembly, Savage small shank available for a Ramage setup.

He was very professional, courteous, and truly wanted to help… I would and will recommend your product, and more importantly, your customer service to anyone. You have a customer for life and I wish you every success. This display table incorporates a Shelby-branded 289 V8 along with pistons and decorative gauges. The table is constructed of steel and wood and features steampunk styling, illuminated carburetors, Edison-style bulbs, Shelby American logo plates, and a glass top. This 289 display table is now offered at no reserve in Culver City, California. These 18″ Porsche wheels measure 8″ and 10″ in width and were optional equipment for 964-generation 911s.

Author: Kevin Helms