I’ll start with a story.
My first precision rifle was based on a Stiller. I hated it. Too tight,had to be cleaned at lunch every match,bolt stop broke several times,horrible cs,just not a great action.
So I went to a defiance deviant. Great action but a tight one. Not much better than the Stiller to be honest. Yes it has a built in recoil lug and rail and that nice and it’s a very well machined action but at the end of the day,no frills.
So I was at an Alabama Precision match and it was windy and dry. Super dusty. Everyone was either cleaning their actions every couple stages or covering thier rifles to protect them from the dust. My deviant was having a hard time,I even went to a dry lube hoping it would help. It did but it was still tough.
So about mid day I was hiking from one stage to another thinking “I need something better,like an AI or something,something designed to eat dirt”. About that time I passed Tate Streater. The impact hadn’t been out long and I knew nothing about it. Tate didn’t know me from Adam but I asked “hey Tate how’re those impacts going for you?”
“Great you need to check one out”.. “deal”
So he brought me to the Oklahoma teams linup of rifles and said “he’d feel this one,I told him not to clean it”.. “this match?!”... “no never,we want to see where it fails”..
Holy smokes,this poor action looked like you through a handful of dirt in it. I though “this poor guy is prob struggling through each stage”..
Nope... I ran thee action a couple times and it was smooth as silk. I was sold
In about two months I had the deviant sold And two impacts of my own.
Since then Tate has gone above and beyond to take care of me and Justin’s got me hooked on hornady 105 bthp’s.
I eventually did get that AI..but sold it soon after cause the reality is,with a couple impacts laying around,that AI won’t get much love. It’s the smoothest,easiest to flick,realiable action for precision rifles out there and built like a tank.
Buy one,you’ll buy two