Montana Rifle Company Junction 308Win Field Evaluation

[Wiscgunner]

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?

Really sounds like a 2 handed operation. Are you saying this operation is as fast and smooth as dropping a round in the chamber and closing the bolt while prone?

 

[Choupique]

Are you saying this operation is as fast and smooth as dropping a round in the chamber and closing the bolt while prone?

It takes a half second longer, maybe.

 

[Formidilosus]

It takes a half second longer, maybe.

This rifle uses an AICS mag.

 

[Wiscgunner]

It takes a half second longer, maybe.

Serious question. So is this a one handed operation or a 2 handed operation? When you are laying prone, are you staying behind the scope on target or do you come off the glass and use 2 hands? Sorry If I am picturing this incorrectly but I am seeing the bolt being manipulated WHILE a cartridge is being depressed.

 

[Choupique]

So is this a one handed operation or a 2 handed operation?

One. Instead of blindly dropping it in, you just snap it into the magazine instead. Unless you're a ninja who can literally throw the rounds in, it doesn't take any longer than dropping them in and it's good practice to load singles that way anyway. Its more reliable.

Of course given this one takes AICS detachable mags as form mentioned, that wouldn't work with this rifle. You'd have to pull the mag, load one, etc. I didn't think about that.

The basis of my original comment was that for a CRF rifle to be able to snap the extractor over the rim, the receiver has to be clearanced to allow the extractor to do that which theoretically would allow it to snap off the rim of a stuck case. I cant imagine it ever would actually matter. Just always seemed to be that if reliability at all costs was the goal, that's something that wouldn't be a feature. I like model 70's which also will snap over the rim.