Melonite BAT actions

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crappie

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Anyone have any experience with the Melonited BAt Actions? Good, bad , indifferent. Im looking at the model M multi with rail for 338 lapua or 30-338. Just thinking that hardening may make them more brittle for a larger cartridge like this with heavy barrel.
 
crappie said:
Anyone have any experience with the Melonited BAt Actions? Good, bad , indifferent. Im looking at the model M multi with rail for 338 lapua or 30-338. Just thinking that hardening may make them more brittle for a larger cartridge like this with heavy barrel.
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I been chasin' this horse for nigh on ten years......both with Bruce Thom and Jim Borden, they WOULD NOT advocate it for their actions for many of those years for exactly the reason you're asking about. It is a 1200F++ process, not to be sneezed at. Search my name with melonite and you'll find many posts to this effect. I could not get a definitive answer.........BUT......Just spake with BAT yesterday on the subject and was informed they'd "caught up with the times"

I have 1/2 dozen other melonited actions and feel strongly that it's a great improvement, and for myself, AS LONG AS IT'S SAFE it's worth it. I wish you could get it shiney like bluing but I'll live with the dullness as long as it does away with the innate stickiness of SS actions. Which IME it does. I'm sending off at least one BAT to have the action done.

So.....NO I haven't any experience, except to compare two others' melonited BATs VS my (and many others) un-melonited

Melonited BATs are smoother, hard to jam the hannle.

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BTW when I say "have caught up with the times" I do not mean to imply that BAT has changed their actions, just that they've researched the heat issue and proven to their satisfaction that it'll be OK

I called specifically about my old action, the one that WAS NOT allowed in the past and was assured that they would send it off themselves if I send it to them.

They're currently using original advocate Joel Kendrick, MMI TruTech having tried others
 
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