Product Information

MODEL: ZENITH 30STR

3” Internal Mag Length

Standard Bolt Face

Titanium Receiver

Right Hand

Engineered for Your hunt of a Lifetime

Balance and stability are the central problems for ultra-light rifles. To reach minimum weight, conventional rifles remove too much barrel contour, resulting in rifles that are rear heavy, and don’t point well. Likewise, stock shape is generally very slim and rounded to ease manufacture, exacerbating poor balance, making them unsteady in the field. The Zenith was designed to address these problems.

Using modern materials, Engineering and Finite Element Analysis, the Zenith action has been designed for hunting, and provides rigidity, accuracy, and best in class features that benefit hunters while remaining ultra light at 17 ounces. The Zenith uses a Titanium 6246 alloy, which exhibits very high strength and excellent fatigue characteristics for a lifetime of use. Combined with a hard, yet tough, salt bath nitride Alloy 4330V bolt, galling is a non-issue. As the heart of the rifle, the Zenith is made from premium materials, cuts no corners in design, and is the rock solid foundation for our rifles.

The Zenith is epoxy bedded into a hand-laid, horizontally-split, wet compression molded composite stock. The result is a very lightweight continuous composite shell with high rigidity and integrity which requires no machining or inletting. In other words, these stocks have strength far beyond their weight. Using a Combination of Carbon and Glass fibers, they have rigidity where necessary, and the ability to soak up more recoil than a pure carbon fiber stock ever could. Utilizing modern stock geometry, nothing in its weight class is as stable or tracks as well as the Zenith.

These components are mated with our own medium weight barrel contours in both Stainless or Carbon sleeved options (no pencil barrels here). This provides a package with a balance point much further forward than any ultralight hunting rifle on the market today. The result is an ultralight weight mountain rifle that has the balance and stability of a far heavier package.

With excellent ergonomics and a feature set specifically designed for mountain hunting, the Zenith will become your go-to rifle. The Zenith is designed to disappear on your pack, and help you confidently make your shot of a lifetime.

Rifle – 4.5 to 5.2lbs

∙ Lightest weight bolt action production rifle available with Carbon Barrel

∙ Weight forward balance for stability and confident long range shooting

∙ Excellent ergonomics means a rifle that settles easily, tracks well, and lends itself to precision

Reciever - Titanium 6246

∙ Integral recoil lug with blind #12-28 mounting holes

∙ Integral optic dovetails ensure all mounting screws remain accessible.

∙ Flush mounted bolt release

∙ Helical cams for battery/extraction provide for a very smooth bolt cycle

∙ Radiused raceways allow closer tolerances for less bolt wobble and smooth operation

∙ 3.0” magazine length for long bullets and flexible seating depths

∙ Hard anodized billet aluminum double stack blind magazine and follower

∙ 1” and 30mm scope rings come in a single, optimized height. This allows any 44mm and some 50mm objective scopes to fit, providing excellent cheek weld.

Bolt - Nitrided 4330V

∙ True Controlled Round Feed with full length stainless extractor

∙ Dovetailed extractor retention means the extractor will never jump the cartridge rim

∙ Single loading capable

∙ Roller cocking provides effortless cock on open performance

∙ HD Striker Spring delivers 106 in*oz energy, and a lock time of 1.9ms

∙ Smooth, positive 3 position safety which physically blocks the striker assembly

∙ Flanged Bolt shroud and vented bolt and receiver for gas management in the unlikely event of a Case Head Separation

∙ Field Strippable

Barrel – 416 Stainless w/ optional carbon sleeve

∙ Coned Breech for slick feeding

∙ Flanged Medium Contour for reducing barrel whip and increased rigidity

∙ Muzzle Thread of ½-28 (carbon) or 9/16-28 (Stainless)

∙ Recessed Target Crown

∙ Directional, timed muzzle break controls muzzle rise and reduces recoil and dust-ups

∙ Comes with threaded muzzle cap and T-60 torx drive as standard

Stock – Carbon /Glass Hybrid

∙ Proprietary Multi-layer carbon/glass fiber shell with engineered fiber orientation

∙ High, negative comb provides excellent recoil management and sight picture

∙ Ambidextrous palm swell and thumb shelves ensure consistency in addressing the rifle

∙ Flat bottomed fore-end and buttstock provide excellent stability and tracking

∙ Integral I beam from fore-end through grip

∙ Molded-in aluminum pillars and sling swivel backers

∙ Non-rotating 2 screw sling bases

∙ Spartan bipod flush mount optional

∙ Epoxy bedding

∙ 15mm ultra light, textured, ground to fit recoil pad

ZENITH 30STR SPEC SHEET

User Manual

Contours

Your Zenith comes complete with ¾ MOA, 100 yard proof target

I recently had the opportunity to spend some time at the range with the prototype Alpine Riflecraft Zenith rifle chambered in 7mm-08. This is a 2-lug bolt, controlled round feed, short action, ultralight rifle designed for the hunter that values ounces saved and a rifle that performs. Light rifles can be difficult to shoot accurately. Not so with this one. Shooting factory Hornady 150gr ELD-X ammunition I easily fired three shot groups between 1/2” and 5/8” at 100 yards. The scope was not set for my eye relief and the trigger was not set as light as I would prefer but the rifle was easy to control due to the excellent 2 port muzzle brake. The action fed and ejected flawlessly. Fit and finish was superb. I would like the opportunity to stretch it out to it’s potential. Designed for the serious backcountry hunter I am anxious to try the production model.

"Lightweight, streamlined, balanced, and extreme attention to detail makes the Zenith feel like a natural extension resulting in excellent precision!"

I shot two of these rifles this morning. A steel barreled 7-08 and a carbon barreled 6.5 CM. They are a thing of beauty. The stock is like nothing I’ve held. Very well thought out, palm swell, high comb, shorter flat bottom front with still enough meat to hold. The action was smooth to operate, nice trigger. Lightweight is an understatement, the marginal added weight of the steel barrel felt better to me. Three rounds of factory ammo each into a half/three quarters of an inch at 100 yards was a nice surprise given the rifles weight. I’ve shot a Gunwerks Ti Clymer and it was great too. But these rifles are just in another league. Bravo.

The action was the slickest titanium action I've ever worked and I felt it was a well thought out package overall.