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Anyone have experience with MacBros stainless actions? Looking at the long action repeater with magnum bolt-face. Price is too good to be true, or maybe not. TIA.


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I have one, nice and smooth.

It's a Evo II stainless short action standard bolt face for DBM, smooth. I haven't spent a ton of time with it though. The bolt take down was a little cumbersome the first time, bolt release is easy to manipulate.

I put it in the box with a Manners EH1 stock, Proof Sendero Carbon barrel, TT special and Hawkins M5 Hunter DBM bottom metal. I need to drop it off so I can really play with it when it comes back.


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Originally Posted by Darryle
I have one, nice and smooth.

It's a Evo II stainless short action standard bolt face for DBM, smooth. I haven't spent a ton of time with it though. The bolt take down was a little cumbersome the first time, bolt release is easy to manipulate.

I put it in the box with a Manners EH1 stock, Proof Sendero Carbon barrel, TT special and Hawkins M5 Hunter DBM bottom metal. I need to drop it off so I can really play with it when it comes back.

Thanks sir. I pulled the trigger on the long action (no pun intended). Hard to pass at $685 for a custom action. Long action Evo II (Ti) is supposed to be out in the spring, but they said that last winter too.


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They make a bunch of actions for different high end makers.. for a reason

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Decent actions as long as you don't run a windage turret. Like many customs with m16 style extractors the ejection angle is high and will bounce cases off of any windage turret of size and back into the action.

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Hmmmmm....I will ask Macbros about that. Sounds like a flaw that might dq the purchase.


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I just got off the phone with Macbros. Their M-16 extractor is a modified version with different extraction geometry. The spent case does not hit the windage turret on ejection.


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