NorthIdahoDude
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I just laid hands on one of those Stag Arms Pursuit barrel actions that Aero Precision keeps blowing out as blems and overruns. Since I had a real hard time finding any technical specifications on it before I bought it, I figured I would post this for anyone curious who has my kind of OCD.
First up, the weight of things.
Bare action with bolt, as shipped, rail and all, 33 oz even - that's a hair more than a Solis lightweight, but a lot less than a regular Solis.
Barrel (18 inch 308) with thread protector is 2lbs 11.7 oz. I was pretty shocked here, that barrel sure looks and feels a lot fatter than that, but the scale don't lie.
Action with recoil lug and an old Walker trigger I had laying around installed, 36.32 oz. The old school trigger fit just fine without having to remove the 700 style bolt release from it.
Bolt by itself, 13.2 oz.
Picitinny rail with screws and pin - 1.9 oz (making the action without the rail, 31.1 oz - super comparable to the Solus lightweight if you wanted to use Talley lightweights or similar)
As far as I can tell, the bolt is the same as a Solus. I have read elsewhere that the bolt heads will interchange also, I will confirm for sure when the 223 bolt head shows up in a week or two.
The action itself is its own animal compared to the Solus. Set up more like an origin, with a pinned recoil lug, and a removable rail.
While I had the rail off, I test fit some Remington 700 front scope bases, and you could use front 700 basis for both front and rear. This does have the larger screw size, 8-48 I think it is, as well as a pin for the front (it's removable if you didn't want to use it). I seem to recall reading some people set up an origin action by using two front 700 bases with the larger screws, so this is probably the exact same deal.
Overall feels very well made, no rough edges, all the sharp angles have been properly machined so you won't cut yourself on them. The bolt runs very smooth, not quite as smooth as a tika, but getting into that neighborhood.
Dropping a borescope down the barrel, it looks pretty decent. Not on par with a super top shelf hand lapped something something, but definitely a cut above a typical factory barrel on any off the shelf sub-$700 hunting rifle I've ever looked at. To be fair, the borescope doesn't really tell you if a barrel will shoot or not, I have seen some very (very) ugly barrels that shot good, and some rather pretty barrels that shot bad, but by and large, ugly looking barrels shoot bad more often than pretty barrels do.
If I had paid $1,100 or whatever MSRP is, I probably would be kicking myself for not buying an Origin, but at the on sale price, I feel like I stole it.
Anyway, that's what I got off the top of my head, anybody has questions hit me up, and I'll see if I can answer them. I don't currently have a short action stock to put it in, so it will be a while before I shoot it.
First up, the weight of things.
Bare action with bolt, as shipped, rail and all, 33 oz even - that's a hair more than a Solis lightweight, but a lot less than a regular Solis.
Barrel (18 inch 308) with thread protector is 2lbs 11.7 oz. I was pretty shocked here, that barrel sure looks and feels a lot fatter than that, but the scale don't lie.
Action with recoil lug and an old Walker trigger I had laying around installed, 36.32 oz. The old school trigger fit just fine without having to remove the 700 style bolt release from it.
Bolt by itself, 13.2 oz.
Picitinny rail with screws and pin - 1.9 oz (making the action without the rail, 31.1 oz - super comparable to the Solus lightweight if you wanted to use Talley lightweights or similar)
As far as I can tell, the bolt is the same as a Solus. I have read elsewhere that the bolt heads will interchange also, I will confirm for sure when the 223 bolt head shows up in a week or two.
The action itself is its own animal compared to the Solus. Set up more like an origin, with a pinned recoil lug, and a removable rail.
While I had the rail off, I test fit some Remington 700 front scope bases, and you could use front 700 basis for both front and rear. This does have the larger screw size, 8-48 I think it is, as well as a pin for the front (it's removable if you didn't want to use it). I seem to recall reading some people set up an origin action by using two front 700 bases with the larger screws, so this is probably the exact same deal.
Overall feels very well made, no rough edges, all the sharp angles have been properly machined so you won't cut yourself on them. The bolt runs very smooth, not quite as smooth as a tika, but getting into that neighborhood.
Dropping a borescope down the barrel, it looks pretty decent. Not on par with a super top shelf hand lapped something something, but definitely a cut above a typical factory barrel on any off the shelf sub-$700 hunting rifle I've ever looked at. To be fair, the borescope doesn't really tell you if a barrel will shoot or not, I have seen some very (very) ugly barrels that shot good, and some rather pretty barrels that shot bad, but by and large, ugly looking barrels shoot bad more often than pretty barrels do.
If I had paid $1,100 or whatever MSRP is, I probably would be kicking myself for not buying an Origin, but at the on sale price, I feel like I stole it.
Anyway, that's what I got off the top of my head, anybody has questions hit me up, and I'll see if I can answer them. I don't currently have a short action stock to put it in, so it will be a while before I shoot it.
