The Raven: Unknown Munitions Tikka Clone action coming soon?

Maybe a dumb question: is Titanium a good action choice?


Ehh. There are cons to it- mainly it makes the actions sticky and feel like crap. There is a different version of Ti that is hard to get that is being sought that should be way smoother.


What sort of cost is gonna come from that?

It will be more expensive.



And what sort of weight savings do you get with titanium?

Like a 19-20oz action- so quite a bit.

If I were absolutely willing to to fall on a sword for weight savings- I would 100% rather have a Raven in Ti (as much as I don’t like Ti), than I would a cut away, opened Tikka or Raven.
 
Care to speculate on order of magnitude?
I have a build order in and chose the raven lite and it's 1199. But I had no idea they were considering titanium. And no idea if the one I ordered will be titanium. He just asked if I wanted the regular or lite and I chose lite and that's the price listed on my invoice.

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I have a build order in and chose the raven lite and it's 1199. But I had no idea they were considering titanium. And no idea if the one I ordered will be titanium. He just asked if I wanted the regular or lite and I chose lite and that's the price listed on my invoice.

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Would you be willing to elaborate on the order process? Was this for a Corax?
 
Would you be willing to elaborate on the order process? Was this for a Corax?
I just filled out the form on the website for a custom build. They emailed back and we went from there. Not a corax....but probably will end up being pretty similar in guessing since I based it on the raven action

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Speculation only- $400-$800 more.
Like @B_Reynolds_AK, this is the first I have heard of a titanium version. That premium would put it in the neighborhood of 700 clone titanium actions (not good or bad, just a reference). I have a Remington 700 Ti that I bought for a lot less than I could buy just a titanium action today. The action is not smooth, and I hit pressure earlier than what I expected, but it is light and that is the reason I got it.
 
That’s what I thought as well, but Form’s response to you seems to say that there won’t be a production version that has the UM lightening cuts. That’s the version I would personally like to see. Maybe there will be an opportunity to request that machining pre-nitride, but I would assume it would come with increased cost.
 
I certainly have missed things so I apologize in advance.

Was this the tikka type action they kept talking about in the last, say 24 months that was meant to come in competitively to the Tikka itself?

If there's been a narrative change now to being more of a higher end custom action then so be it. Don't care either way and not trying to stir up anything. Just like to have clarity for my own purchasing decision.
 
I certainly have missed things so I apologize in advance.

Was this the tikka type action they kept talking about in the last, say 24 months that was meant to come in competitively to the Tikka itself?

If there's been a narrative change now to being more of a higher end custom action then so be it. Don't care either way and not trying to stir up anything. Just like to have clarity for my own purchasing decision.
By the third post here, folks were already expecting it to be costly:

A custom Tikka clone action built by BAT will likely take it past "not inexpensive" another couple notches.

I’m getting one predominantly for the pic rail, but also to support UM listening to us.
 
By the third post here, folks were already expecting it to be costly:



I’m getting one predominantly for the pic rail, but also to support UM listening to us.
Thanks for clarifying. I'm still interested in buying one if the timing works out.
 
By the third post here, folks were already expecting it to be costly:



I’m getting one predominantly for the pic rail, but also to support UM listening to us.
I’m getting one to push the Tikka platform into the full custom competitive rifle level. I’ve got so much in the Tikka system already that there’s no way I’d switch to R700.

The rail will be a big upgrade too.
 
My understanding from the podcast was:

Original Raven action - steel with integrated pic rail, lightening cuts, no dust cover
Second Raven action - steel with integrated pic rail, no lightening cuts, with dust cover

Now maybe a Ti version of the "Original Raven" described above.
 
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