Lawton Actions?

[tuam76]

I am looking for a long action and have been considering a Lawton 7000. Can anyone vouch for their craftsmanship and or how close to true they are?

Thanks

 

[tuam76]

Forgot to add, if you do not want to post a negative opinion then send me a pm. I would really like to hear what people have to say.

 

[Dj300ack]

I have had three lawtons, 7500 series. The first two were built good and quality was good. And the third one was not that great. I ordered a long magumn action dual port for 300 wby. and the ejection port was short and would not eject empty case, and the ejector has never ejected consitant and bolt handle came loose just had a little tig weld on back. Ended up putting a different bolt in it and opening up ejection port myself. Each action was ordered at different times and each time they billed me the full amount the same day and said three months and would be shippped. First two were 6 months and the third was 9 months with sereval phone calls were I was told stuff that was not true and what they said did"nt happen. I have shot good groups at 1000yd with all the actions. This is my expericence with the lawtons. I have one Bat action I just purchased and it's great. Bat makes a action like you are looking at, but cost more money, but the craftsmanship is perfect, I think it is worth the extra money and there are other good action makers out there with price around the lawton.

 

[Aussie_bob]

I bought 6 Lawton 7500 actions The actions them selves arnt too Bad the bolt head is a bit rough but can be cleaned up and after some use are quite smooth one has broken an ejector but that may have been from stiff loads and hard to extract.
The service was bloody terrible. Originaly i was quoted 2.5 to 3 months they were also suppling triggers 3 Timney Tac and 3 Jewel BRs With all the bull and excuses they ended up delivering to the exporter the day the permit to import i had expired not only that they hadnt given all the paperwork to the exporter months before anyway so he could get permit to export they had lost the paperwork this is all 6 months after order and PAYMENT in Full. All in all 12 months before i recieved them. Because of late delivery i lost two sales.
They are not a bad action but i will not deal with them again because of the service i can understand delays but do not tolerate being lied to 3 Triggers also took over 6 months as they said Grafs could not supply but Grafs told me different.