Any New 22RF Custom Actions at NRA Annual Meeting?

[flatlander]

Have been working with a Stiller 2500XR & a couple of CMP 40X 22RF actions lately, and have been wondering if there was anything of that type new under the sun on display at the NRA Annual Meeting? Interested in a custom 40X clone specifically, but would like to hear about anything new for 22RF.

Have seen a Lonestar action on PTG's website that appears to be a 40X clone, but they're not in stock, and from what I could see in the photo, it looks to be in RB/LP configuration.

 

[Tim s]

Have been working with a Stiller 2500XR & a couple of CMP 40X 22RF actions lately, and have been wondering if there was anything of that type new under the sun on display at the NRA Annual Meeting? Interested in a custom 40X clone specifically, but would like to hear about anything new for 22RF.

Have seen a Lonestar action on PTG's website that appears to be a 40X clone, but they're not in stock, and from what I could see in the photo, it looks to be in RB/LP configuration.

Other than , maybe you, who do you suppose is interested in another 40X clone, and more importantly.....why?
Give the merits and advantages of current actions, demand for that platform is at an all time low, other than, perhaps, nostalgia factor.

 

[flatlander]

Are you aware of the repeater conversions being done to 40X actions, using a specifically designed poly 10rd 22LR magazine with the same external dimensions as an AICS mag? Are you aware that many RF BR shooters are still using 40X actions? Besides that, I've been expecting to hear news on this front because of someone who had told me he hoped to have just such an action ready for this show. Nostalgia has nothing to do with it - I shoot an Anschutz 2013/2011 in smallbore matches.

 

[Tim s]

Are you aware of the repeater conversions being done to 40X actions, using a specifically designed poly 10rd 22LR magazine with the same external dimensions as an AICS mag? Are you aware that many RF BR shooters are still using 40X actions? Besides that, I've been expecting to hear news on this front because of someone who had told me he hoped to have just such an action ready for this show. Nostalgia has nothing to do with it - I shoot an Anschutz 2013/2011 in smallbore matches.

Yes I am, in point of fact, my bud, up here did them 15 years ago....complete with 6 o'clock ignition, for IR 50 sporters.
Many BR shooters......uh, no. Few, very few BR guns are being built with factory or clone 40X's these days.
What nostalgia and your match gun have in common, I have no idea.
You'd be farther ahead calling Jerry Stiller to see if he'd assemble one for you.

 

[flatlander]

I was actually asking for information from anyone who'd been to the NRA Annual Meeting, not opinions from someone who doesn't understand why I'm interested in 40X actions. They make darned fine trainers for someone who's interested in PRS-type shooting, and in fact, are so much fun to shoot that many of the guys who initially bought or built them as trainers for their CF rifles have moved beyond that, and are shooting them in 22RF Precision Rifle matches. I'd actually heard a rumor that an accomplished gunsmith was working at having his own version of the 40X at the show, or I wouldn't have bothered to ask.

If you'd re-read what I said in my first post, you'd note that I already have a 2500XR from Jerry. I bought the XR instead of the XS because I was building myself a 22RF trainer, not a BR rifle. I've been very pleased with it, and wish it were available with the magazine cut-out to work with the aforementioned AICS-style mags instead of the curved 10rd Savage mags. The larger poly mags make for much easier & quicker reloads, important if the course of fire requires it.