c-g-designs

II)-ACTION DESIGN.

CONCEPTION OF SINGLE SHOT  MATCH ACTIONS

1-FOREWORDS.

This is not a book. This is even not a comprehensive study on what might have to be considered when putting a specific purpose single shot target bolt action on the ‘drawing board’.

This is more a succession of thoughts on various related subjects, not necessarily linked together and with developments and updates added from time to time.

This is only what I personally think as being to consider when it is question to use or put into the design what can make an action better than  an other,  and more importantly having the design potentials to be a great shooting platform.  And mostly have all the features a custom action must have  as compared to a mass-production one whose designers primary objective will always be the commercial success and for that the lowest cost, when customs must have to comply to acceptance, and this acceptance is only the result of superior shooting  performance and successes in competition.

Tag price is much too often the first consideration when it is to choose an action for a new project. When adding the extra costs involved in reworking a basic mass-produced action to make this action reasonably accurate (trueing,  blueprinting, timing, F.P hole bushing, etc,  etc, etc), fitting a decent match trigger in replacement of the OEM one, a GOOD barrel, the final cost result always ends in more money spent, and time lost in the project achievement… also difficulty to progress in scores due to rifle inherent limitations,, numerous visits to the smith.. etc, etc…

Rifle action designs study and shooting them has been a lifetime passion for me, starting as far as after WW2 playing with all what was left on the battlefields here… . I came to the design in 1984, using my professional experience, specialising in processings, industrial safety and machinery definition/industrial projects management.  What follows is the result of  my own experiences, transposed from professional into the hobby. I do not intend to criticize any other concept (I have too much consideration for their designers), just defend my own ideas and concepts. I will avoid  comparisons as much as possible, and seek indulgence in advance should anyone feel offended in any way. I have my points of view, offer them openly, and perfectly admit them not to be shared by other technicians. No one has ever been  born with science, I know. I accept controversy in advance, and  simply hope it will be technical only and in fair and courteous terms.

Just a word of pride about the C.G designs: On the last October 2011 Brisbane (Australia) Worlds Long Range Championships and Palma Match, a local friend of mine, counting the RPAs, Milleniums and also the newer  INCH rifles who equipped in full the South African Palma Team, he commented that those C.G-designed actions represented over half of the 6- Palma Match Teams firing line.  This, after written information received from teams  officials and organizers, revealed to be 51 out of 96 Palma Match shooters. Results in the Individual  World  Championships final were

1rst (C.G-RPA Quadlock), 2d (C.GINCH), 4^{th (C.G-RPA Quadlock), 5th (C.G Millenium) , 7th (C.G INCH). The Under 25 World Championship was won by André Du Toit (RSA) shooting an INCH. For the anecdote, André won the INCH rifle offered as a prize by Action Clear, the rifle/action manufacturer and C.G accessories suppliers, Centra and X-Treme.  André came with one INCH rifle and returned home with a pair!!..}

Enough said… Lets go to the technicalities

R.G.C