New Canadian Action with 3-Lug Floating Bolt Head
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Our friends at Target Shooter UK Magazine recently reviewed an innovative new rifle action engineered and crafted in Canada. This features a Rem 700 footprint, with some clever features, including a 3-lug bolt with floating bolt head, dual ejection plungers, and integral recoil lug. The action is very smooth-running and seems well-suited to a variety of disciplines. It can take any Rem 700-compatible trigger. The reviewer tested this new action in a GS Precision rifle fitted with 26″ Benchmark barrel, KRG Whiskey 3 stock, and 10-oz. Trigger Tech Diamond trigger.
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The Target Shooter Magazine reviewer was impressed by the Ultimatum Action and its features:
“I’m holding one of the first Ultimatum Precision actions to arrive in the UK and they are even more gorgeous than I remembered. The action is called the ‘DEADLINE’ – which is neatly incised into the multi-flat action body. The fluted bolt-body is a beefy 21mm diameter (most custom actions are 18mm) and the bolt-shroud and rear tang have been tastefully re-designed.”
“The Ultimatum Precision Deadline action is a joy to use with its slick, short-throw [60-degree] bolt-lift.”
“The action is machined from 4340 HTSR steel with a LHN (Liquid Hard Nitride) coating, which gives the action an attractive black sheen and is wear-resistant and corrosion resistant. The fluted bolt incorporates a floating bolt-head design – similar idea to the Savage – which means that caliber changes are a cinch, especially with the option of a Savage-type, barrel-nut fixing. The Ultimatum Precision bolt is however a three-lug bolt, which usefully keeps bolt-lift to 60 degrees. Other useful features are the integral recoil-lug, dual ejection plungers in the bolt-face, and a pinned +20 MOA Picatinny scope rail.”
For more information on the Ultimatum Precision Actions, KRG stocks, and Benchmark barrels, contact GS Precision via this email: info [at] gsprecision.org.uk.
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I looked at this action at SHOT and found it very smooth in operation with tight tolerances on the approx .820 bolt body. Interestingly, like a Barnard, it does not have bolt lug raceways – it uses an slot in the bolt body, matched to the inside portion of the bolt release as a guide. Notwithstanding that their website says a 338 LM boltface by Spring 2018, I was advised that is now Summer 2019.
Hear that the bolt lift is heavy. That would negate the shorter bolt lift angle. Sauer can do both.
“The Ultimatum Precision action is a joy to use with its slick, short-throw, bolt-lift and shooting off a bi-pod,”
The reviewer, in a hands-on review seems to differ with your hearsay.
Have the information from a very trustworthy source that has tried the action. We will see I guess once some get out there. From what I understand their previous action had issues.
The previous U300 has the heavy bolt lift. The Deadline does not, feels like a normal 3 lug