Anyone know about Savage Impulse straight-pull bolt action rifle?

[Aim1]

I don't think the savage will be any fast, I think it maybe actually slower then a good turnbolt. It's clear from the videos the length of the bolt is to long and you lose your check weld. That and I think the action is not as smooth as there saying, they videos are edited in a strange way looks like it takes a very hard yank to unlock the action.

In this video you don't appear to lose the cheekweld.

 

[Mosin77]

I wouldn’t buy one for technical advantages but I’d love to try one. Maybe I’d fall in love with it? Who knows. The vast majority of our choices in guns come down to personal preference anyway.

My Swiss straight pull is fun but doesn’t do anything “better” than a regular bolt or lever for hunting purposes.

In the UK a Savage straight pull might be a welcome alternative to an AR-converted-to-straight-pull-to-circumvent-semi-auto-rifle-restrictions. We should pray we don’t find ourselves eyeing the Savage for that particular reason but it is a realistic reason, among others, for the company to have developed it.

 

[Aim1]

I wouldn’t buy one for technical advantages but I’d love to try one. Maybe I’d fall in love with it? Who knows. The vast majority of our choices in guns come down to personal preference anyway.

My Swiss straight pull is fun but doesn’t do anything “better” than a regular bolt or lever for hunting purposes.

In the UK a Savage straight pull might be a welcome alternative to an AR-converted-to-straight-pull-to-circumvent-semi-auto-rifle-restrictions. We should pray we don’t find ourselves eyeing the Savage for that particular reason but it is a realistic reason, among others, for the company to have developed it.

Maybe same boat, try one to see how much different/better it really is.

 

[Jim Watson]

In a bygone day, when ISU had the Running Deer match, with a moving target at 100 meters and with a doubles phase to be shot with a manually operated repeater, most of the guys concentrated on cranking a Mauser real fast. There might have been some straight pulls in there, too.

But some competitors tried hardware solutions.
I thought it was neat that Walter Winans won a lot with a Rigby double rifle in .22 Savage.
And about 80 years later, the US AMU built up Remington 760 pumps into target rifles; the .222 model rebarreled with a 28" Hart .223 and fitted with Redfield peep and globe sights.

But as range space shrank, they went to Running Boar shot with a .22. Then with deemphasis on firearms, to a sliding bullseye shot at with an air rifle. I don't know if they do even that any more.