Our industry is blessed with some outstanding custom actions to choose from.
Several makers offer innovation and quality above and beyond the rest of the pack. With so much quality competition, I wanted to give kudos to Defiance Machine for what they have been delivering.
I have sourced certain actions from Defiance since 2007.
They have been the sole source of my SENTINEL and LongSword actions since 2014. I have been happy with them and have a ton of confidence with the rifles going out the door.
I have likely become a little spoiled with the consistency as it gets mixed into all of the other daily things I work through.
This week I have been documenting dimensions and headspace measurements from a group of actions in preparation to shipping their bolts, cocking pieces, extractors and firing pins out for DLC. This allows me to proceed with doing all the barrel breech work for each receiver even while the bolts are out for coating.
What caught my attention yesterday and tonight was the crazy consistency of the measurements across this group of 11 short actions and 4 long actions. Using my particular methods and tools, I documented 14 out of the 15 total actions being inside a 0.0005” headspace range.
That is half of one thousandth inch. The one action that was outside that limit was only another half thousandth long. So even counting the “bad” one (sarcasm), all fell within a one thousandth of an inch range.
At worse, I was previously seeing everything across the board falling into 0.0015” H.S. range which is still very good but this latest group is exceptional.
I am getting the features I need from Defiance to suit my niche and most certainly getting the quality and CONSISTENCY that makes it a wee bit easier for me to deliver excellent rifles.
Thank you Glen, Norm, Mike and the rest of the crew at Defiance for putting up with my questions and worries.
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Several makers offer innovation and quality above and beyond the rest of the pack. With so much quality competition, I wanted to give kudos to Defiance Machine for what they have been delivering.
I have sourced certain actions from Defiance since 2007.
They have been the sole source of my SENTINEL and LongSword actions since 2014. I have been happy with them and have a ton of confidence with the rifles going out the door.
I have likely become a little spoiled with the consistency as it gets mixed into all of the other daily things I work through.
This week I have been documenting dimensions and headspace measurements from a group of actions in preparation to shipping their bolts, cocking pieces, extractors and firing pins out for DLC. This allows me to proceed with doing all the barrel breech work for each receiver even while the bolts are out for coating.
What caught my attention yesterday and tonight was the crazy consistency of the measurements across this group of 11 short actions and 4 long actions. Using my particular methods and tools, I documented 14 out of the 15 total actions being inside a 0.0005” headspace range.
That is half of one thousandth inch. The one action that was outside that limit was only another half thousandth long. So even counting the “bad” one (sarcasm), all fell within a one thousandth of an inch range.
At worse, I was previously seeing everything across the board falling into 0.0015” H.S. range which is still very good but this latest group is exceptional.
I am getting the features I need from Defiance to suit my niche and most certainly getting the quality and CONSISTENCY that makes it a wee bit easier for me to deliver excellent rifles.
Thank you Glen, Norm, Mike and the rest of the crew at Defiance for putting up with my questions and worries.
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