I’ve heard there’s a redesign underway….
Are they calling it the S20?
On a more serious note, rumor has it that 2022 is the last year of the 85.
I was at the LGS the other day and was talking to the counter guy. We took a serious look at both the S20 and 85 bolts. The 85 uses the fixed ejection blade at the 6 o'clock position and the extractor at about the 10-11 o'clock position. The S20 on the other hand uses the same extractor position, however, the ejector is a sprung plunger (ala Rem 700) in the 3 o'clock position. Some simple ejection testing with a fired case clearly showed the the sprung plunger in the 3 o'clock position is much better at ejecting cases horizontally than the fixed blade ejector. The fixed blade ejector has the effect of pushing the spent cartridge up and thus the potential to hit scope turrets.
