Montana Rifle Company Junction 308Win Field Evaluation

[nobody]

Yeah. I’m not sure how to make it cleaner in a thread.

Understandable. At least we know it’s all on the first page, we just appreciate your testing and sharing.

 

[Choupique]

Identical- it is one.

Excellent. The cartridge style trigger is what sucks about the new model 70.

If montana starts making these in 375 h&h they just might hook me.

 

[Formidilosus]

Excellent. The cartridge style trigger is what sucks about the new model 70.

If montana starts making these in 375 h&h they just might hook me.

They do…

 

[Choupique]

Well, I guess I'll go see if I can cook up a way to sneak that one past the wife...

 

[Formidilosus]

Update to post #6.


Loaded three different bullets at book max with H4350. Three, ten round groups. 6cm shoots.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Update to post #6.


Loaded three different bullets at book max with H4350. Three, ten round groups. 6cm shoots.

Shooter!

103 ELDX's are killers.

 

[Mtnmilsurp]

Update to post #6.


Loaded three different bullets at book max with H4350. Three, ten round groups. 6cm shoots.

Any challenges getting 6CM to cycle?


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[Formidilosus]

Any challenges getting 6CM to cycle?


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Not at all. Rifle feeds slick as can be.

 

[Stearinlys]

Man, everytime I see someone post up groups while testing with the 95nbt's it makes me smile... Absolutely love those things.

 

[Marshfly]

Starting to like this rifle as an option. Sucks that I'm getting so spoiled carrying around my super light Howa 6ARC. Wish they offered a lighter stock option and 6 creed.

 

[Choupique]

Regarding being able to close the bolt over a dropped-in round- why is that advantageous? With my old mausers it's very easy to hold the top round down, close the bolt half way, slide the chamber round back, push down, slide it under the extractor, and close it. It seems that having clearance for the extractor to ride over the rim on closing, means it has the clearance to ride over the rim on opening, and gives opportunity for issue (a far fetched one) for no real world advantage?

 

[svivian]

@Formidilosus

Just a few questions as I follow along on this for my own clarity.

How much of the rifle is original/unaltered at this point?

Changes that you have done to this rifle, what do you consider requirements and others optional now that you have had some time with it? also are these changes going to be considered in manufacturing after you are finished reviewing.

Thanks

 

[Formidilosus]

Wish they offered a lighter stock option and 6 creed.

They will be to both.

 

[Formidilosus]

it's very easy to hold the top round down, close the bolt half way, slide the chamber round back, push down, slide it under the extractor, and close it.

That ?


Or-

Drop round in action, close bolt.

 

[Formidilosus]

@Formidilosus

Just a few questions as I follow along on this for my own clarity.

How much of the rifle is original/unaltered at this point?

Action.

The original barrel was cut and threaded. Then the AICS bottom metal. Then the wood RokStok. Now the 6CM barrel.

Changes that you have done to this rifle, what do you consider requirements and others optional now that you have had some time with it?

Other than the action screw bottoming out (which was corrected across all rifles by MRC immediately), and the bolt handle notch (which again was corrected), everything that has been done is optional.

The MRC Junction rifle was not optimized for me, or the general type of people that post on this forum. MRC wanted the action mostly, and rifle in total to be legitimately used hard and to see where it fails, if it failed, so that they could correct it. In addition, they very much wanted to make changes to make a version that is optimized for western backpack hunting and general shooting.

also are these changes going to be considered in manufacturing after you are finished reviewing.

Thanks

Yes. They are and have implemented multiple learned items. Yes, there will be model changes, or additions….

Wouldn’t it be neat if a rifle came in a box that was optimally designed and setup; that every single rifle was assembled and torqued correctly, was tested for feed, function, and reliability with every magazine that came with that individual rifle-and precision was validated with statistically relevant shot groups sizes? Mount a scope and know that the rifle works…..

 

[svivian]

Wouldn’t it be neat if a rifle came in a box that was optimally designed and setup; that every single rifle was assembled and torqued correctly, was tested for feed, function, and reliability with every magazine that came with that individual rifle-and precision was validated with statistically relevant shot groups sizes?……. jus sayin

Thanks, that’s the reason I asked. Happy to hear that

 

[Formidilosus]

Thanks, that’s the reason I asked. Happy to hear that

A little birdie told me…

 

[Choupique]

Drop round in action, close bolt

All that takes maybe a whole second. If it's a single, click it in the box and close the bolt.

My point is if the whole purpose of all this crf stuff is reliability at all costs, why add room for the extractor to jump the rim just so you can chamber loose rounds instead of the 0.5 seconds it takes to click it into the magazine?

Does this one have a pivoting ejector like the newer model 70's or is it fixed like an old mauser?

 

[Formidilosus]

All that takes maybe a whole second. If it's a single, click it in the box and close the bolt.

My point is if the whole purpose of all this crf stuff is reliability at all costs, why add room for the extractor to jump the rim just so you can chamber loose rounds instead of the 0.5 seconds it takes to click it into the magazine?

Does this one have a pivoting ejector like the newer model 70's or is it fixed like an old mauser?

You aren’t losing reliability in the MRC. It is 100% CRF with full rim engagement- the best of any modern CRF I have seen.

 

[Formidilosus]

Update post #7 with three more bullets/loads.