Originally Posted by Bugger
The 71 has a shorter action, I believe but could be wrong.

Never read that they changed the action length , just that they upgraded the internals. I don't have an '86 to measure so I also could be wrong but I see no logical reason to shorten the m71 action from the original "86 length.

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