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Tactical Hunter
McMillan's Tactical Hunter is a tack driver.
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Be it the barrel, exquisite wood or a super-trued action, it's usually apparent when a manufacturer puts extra effort into a certain rifle part to set their product apart from the competition. But the Tactical Hunter doesn't have any singular standout physical feature, instead relying on an overall level of high quality to achieve its distinction.
I've been fortunate to see many types of rifle actions being made on factory assembly lines and in small custom shops around the country, and the keys to accuracy are universally considered concentricity and tight tolerances. Make an action true and make it well, and all of its subordinate parts perform better and you end up with an accurate rifle.
Mass-production has come a long way toward making great actions at reasonable cost, but McMillan's G30 is at a much higher level than you'll find on those. It starts life as a centerless billet blank of 17-4 stainless steel instead of a forging or casting. From there, it is CNC machined for absolute concentricity of the bolt and the action body around an axis defined by the barrel bore line. The action face is trued to be absolutely perpendicular to the axis of the bolt. All of this effort ensures the bullet's path starts as a straight line, and the rifle is merely built around that line.
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