Originally Posted by
berg243
lucky it wasnt me but my hunting buddy who was sitting patiently for the deer to walk up from the scrub at the lake edge .nicely 3 deer walked up to within 40m and stopped nicely while he lined up the shot and rifle went click so worked the bolt and another click meanwhile deer are getting a bit jumpy after the third click and some muttering from mate ( more like swearing profusely ) deer decide to wander off with some haste then. back at the hut i have a go still click .question mate about what he had done with rifle before heading out on this trip and he admits cleaning his swedish mauser real well even stripping bolt for a thorough clean before reassembling .pulled bolt out of rifle did another turn on the bolt head and put back in , rifle goes bang now. I think he was a bit gutted as tat would have been his first deer.