Re: Actions with milled-in rail?
In Theory, and i guess in practice, with an integral rail you do not have to worry about screws comming loose, threads stripping and rails comming off. A scope is under a fair amount of force when a rifle is fired, even more so if a brake or suppressor are used.
Hence the integral rail is more solid, failsafe, and it stiffens the action, but like i said, i have never seen a properly fitted rail come loose. and on an action that isn't milled way out for the ejection port, how stiff does it have to be, you could keep going stiff untill you have a rifle action the size of a car battery, but somewhere along the line, its stiff enough for the job + some and the rest is over kill.
and yeah i guess one can get the rail lower if not having to allow enough space for screw heads and meat under the screw heads, but the integral rails tend to be, at leaste over here about the same height as if they where bolted on..
We've actualy go a version with ( T for tactical) and a version without ( J for Jagd or in English Hunting)
Ofcourse you are limited to whatever slope is built into the rail, be it 0, or 20MOA.. up to 40 MOA for some of the longer range kit. and this lessens personal choice, in theory you can custom ordere a bolt on rail in anything from 0 to whatever and a half MOA.
But for short action calibers a 20MOA will cover about everything, if it wont then use an inclined scope rings set up too,.,.and for a long action, well up to 300WM a 20MOA will be fine, might want a 30 or even 30+ on a .338LM and other similar though.
An integral rail and recoil lug makes sense form the point of view of a riflesmith, its less fitting time of parts and certainly for anyone who swaps barrels an inmtegral lug is desirable.
Sudinim.. actualy i'm having a long needed clean up and machine maintenance day, just topped up the coolant and cleaned the lathe & milling machine too. The pics i sent where of the prototype, the slots where wrongly positioned on the picatinny and it was sloped off at the front,. I'll post pics in a thread as soon as i have nice quality ones of the production kit.
Pete
