The guys at the booth tell me they did not decide until the last minute, literally a week ago today, to show it. I find nothing on their website about it. I do have some pictures of the new action and will attempt to post them tonight.

https://defiancemachine.com/actions/

Features of the new action (from Memory just by way of warning):

700 clone, mostly.

The medium length action weighed 1.48# on their scale.

The bolt is one-piece, fluted with more, narrower, and deeper flutes.

The bolt I.D. is also larger to reduce weight.

M-16 extractor

Integral recoil lug

Bolt release and stop are on the side of the rear action ring

The rear action ring is round, (not cut down like a 700) and there are cutouts machined into the sides for weight reduction.

Bolts are all machined to exactly the same length (within .001") to allow complete changeability.

I am sure I am forgetting things but I will try to catch up later on what I have forgotten. Pretty cool piece of work and I suspect I will be looking hard at them soon.


Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.