Rick,

Yeah, that's one of the problems with many high-end custom rifle makers: They don't have as near as much experience with various actions, since they don't make nearly as many rifles as some guys who make rifles costing 1/4 as much. Consequently any bad experience with a certain make of action gets magnified.

You should have heard Dave Gentry on pre-'64's!

My .375 H&H is based on Mark X barreled action I got for $225 in the early 1990's.

I am also a fan of 700's and their clones, though at least one of the high-$$ clones isn't all it's been cracked up to be on the Internet either. Learned that from one of those custom gunmakers who makes a lot of synthetic-stocked rifles. Oh, and I've even taken dangerous game with a Remington 700 and lived to tell about it....






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