Thread: Glacier Rifle Company - NZ Made Titanium Actions

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

They look pretty good.

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That's heavier than a kimber. Action is also heavier than most custom actions which is a shame. Especially with a titanium bolt.

GRC at 21.3ozs

Lone peaks are around 20 ozs for a short action

The Steel Defiance anTi are 21ish I believe.

The peirce featherweight action that's a titanium receiver and bolt is only 15ozs but likely 16ozs as it doesn't include recoil lug.

Plus all the other customs allow for a longer magazine.

I like the NZ iniative but a few suggestions I would make would be to shave some weight to warrant full titanium.
Allow a flush mag vs detachable
Have scope mounts available vs rail.

Still epic kiwi stuff and if a few of the above changed I'd buy one. They will also build with your spec parts ie different barrels or triggers.

cough,choke what? north of 6 n a half k for an ordinary bolt action rifle,bare?
I sure don't fit their market profile

People regularly $5.5k for a bare sako carbonlight. Im interested in these GRC rifles, especially being NZ made. What an awesome thing to support

Originally Posted by widerange

cough,choke what? north of 6 n a half k for an ordinary bolt action rifle,bare?
I sure don't fit their market profile

Custom rifles usually cost between 5 and 7 k to put together, and there’s plenty of people buying and selling them


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Originally Posted by widerange

cough,choke what? north of 6 n a half k for an ordinary bolt action rifle,bare?
I sure don't fit their market profile

Ordinary would be ignoring multiple things
Actual carbon match barrel
Titanium action and bolt (most custom titanium action run near 3k and don't have a titanium bolt)
Made in NZ
Carbon stock.
It's effectively just an nz made custom rifle. Say 1000 in a carbon stock
300 for a trigger
400ish for a titanium bottom metal (likely more)
1250 for a carbon barrel plus 500ish for smithing
Action (3k for a titanium Lone peak as an approcimate equivalent)
That's a decent breakdown there ignoring the incidentals as well. Might be to expensive for most but so is any custom. There's a reason everything else is cheaper it's that they re made in a factory overseas in a production line. Can't compare the 2.

I've seen these rifles in person. You can't comprehend how light they are. The workmanship is absolutely incredible. You truly can't see the quality and perfection these guys have for their craft in pictures.
Actions are smooth, really nice components. They can also drop a howa or any other action in the carbon stock if wanted.
They also do benelli m2 shotguns, pure works of art.

Still weigh more than a kimber. I didn't think the magazine was any longer either. I like the idea but I think the actions are about 6 ozs too heavy for a titanium action and bolt. Would have hoped they would have been in that 15 or 16 ozs

Be nicer (and lose some weight also) if the action was an open bridge design so could run internal mag box. It's a must in a lightweight hunting rifle for me. One of the reasons I can't stand the tikka platform, faffing around with a stuck round in a port eject action in a hunting situation doesn't spin my wheels