Allen,

I think they spent your QA budget on the wood. <---humor

The current NRA American Hunter also has a review by J. Scott Olmsted who took the rifle to Zim for buff. He reports excellent accuracy, and says he put about 600 rounds through the rifle.

He does note that you have to angle the 3.60" long loaded cartridges to fit through the action's 3.51" loading port, but also wrote feeding and ejection were flawless. I don't know how well the action ejects a loaded cartridge (say if you had to clear a failure to fire).

I didn't understand his description of the breeching: "The bolt is machined from premium solid bar stock. Its twin opposed forward locking lugs rotate into raceways in the chamber to make an incredibly strong joint." I need a picture of that chamber!

jim


LCDR Jim Dodd, USN (Ret.)
"If you're too busy to hunt, you're too busy."