I guess I should get my hands on a new one and see if things have changed. Mine (sn 0029) is one of the smoothest, easiest actions I've felt. Right up there with a defiance or BAT.
You must have the 50/50 bolt, right?
I have the 105/5 bolt. Maybe mine is on the edge of the heavier side of how heavy the bolt lift can be on a Mausingfield, I don't know??? I did some polishing on the cocking piece and where it rides on the camming cut, and lubed with grease, that helped but it's still a heavier bolt lift than I'd like.
It could be how the Calvin Elite trigger interacts with the cocking piece, the timing, not fitting quite right, not sure about that either, combo of all??? I'm not a GS and don't understand the intricacies.
As far as everything else about the action, all the cool attributes, it's very smooth, well built, etc, I love it. I do appreciate the departure of it not just being another M700 clone.
Like I keep mentioning, it's time for modern designers of actions to consider making/including assisted opening and/or closing of the bolt to speed things up. This has been done in the past on other actions. A good example is my 1970 SAKO Finnwolf lever action, upon opening, once the lever has reached it's pivot point, the bolt flys back under spring tension.
Even my old 1914 Mannlicher has assisted opening on the bolt lift.
I know the expertise exists with Ted to engineer things like this in future generations if he so desires.
I bet a roller bearing on the cocking piece and/or primary extraction would make a big difference in the feel of cocking closing the bolt.
Mines not DLC'ed so that might be part of it.