Back around 1975 I knew a gunsmith in Ashford, Alabama. One day he showed me a barreled action in the white. It was in .22 Mag. He said he originally intended it for .222 Remington but decided the really light action might be taking a chance with that cartridge.
It had two rear locking luggs and the action was very slick. The lugs looked plenty strong to me but I guess he just wasn’t going to take the chance.
If I owned a manufacturing company I would have bought the design as it was really smooth operating
Did that smithie live way off the road and you had to drive over a ‘plate’ in the driveway about twoo hundred yards from the shop? ... If it’s the same gunsmith, that was where I fired my first suppressed Beretta.