BARNARD RIFLE ACTION

Description

The Barnard Rifle Action has been a top contender in precision rifle competitions world-round. WTC is proud to finally offer the Barnard rifle action for sale in the US!

We currently offer two models of the action, as these have become the most popular with our rifle customers.

MODEL P-CHEY

A development of the Model P action, The Model P-Chey is a conventional single shot, cylindrical forward-locking turn bolt design. The P-Chey is designed to handle the .408 Chey-Tac or the .505 Gibbs cartridges.

The bolt carries three forward locking lugs and is equipped with a Sako-style extractor. The bolt face can accept any case rim up to 0.635″. It undergoes finish machining after hardening, and is hand lapped to suit its mating receiver.

The receiver is a 4340 chrome/moly/nickel steel solid bottom cylinder, which is through hardened to 38Rc. It is finish machined after surface hardening to ensure concentricity.

The Model P-Chey is supplied as standard with the Barnard Target trigger.

More info here.

MODEL GP

The largest member of the Barnard family of actions, the Model GP is designed for the biggest cartridges – generally found in use in target rifles. The Model GP is of conventional, cylindrical forward-locking turn bolt design, and is only presently available in single shot format.

The bolt carries three forward locking lugs and is equipped with a Sako-style extractor. The bolt face can accept any case rim up to 0.804″. It undergoes finish machining after hardening, and is hand lapped to suit its mating receiver.

The receiver is a massive 4340 chrome/moly/nickel steel solid bottom cylinder, with relatively narrow load/unload port which is through hardened to 38Rc and finish machined after surface hardening to ensure concentricity.

Supplied with the action, is a 6061 aluminum bedding block, an anodized 6061 aluminum Piccatinny-style scope rail (30 minutes of angle), and a Modified 2 stage Barnard trigger. The bedding block can be used with (and highly recommended), or without a 12mm recoil stud which is also included. This bedding block is machined to give 2 parallel points of contact on the receiver which will ensure excellent alignment and rigidity when well mounted in your stock.

This action will accept cartridges up to an overall length of 5.50″ – thus will handle any of today’s popular large bore cartridges.

More info here.