With all this cold weather at the moment Im using the half cock method...
Liked On: 27-07-2023, 04:58 PM
Looking at the answers from the different members on this post, it is interesting that each individual way of treating the problem might be linked to their location and the type of environment they...
Liked On: 27-07-2023, 04:58 PM
Never heard of a fourteen year old having a half erection. Didn't think that sort of thing started until about sixty (I'm not sixty yet). So probably not a very good example to get his point across...
Liked On: 27-07-2023, 07:17 AM
“Load a firearm only when ready to fire”. To me, “ready to fire” is when I’m in position to take the shot. Bush hunting I like to have the bolt pushed forward enough to engage the round into...
Liked On: 27-07-2023, 07:16 AM
The main problem with these threads are that 'half cock' is a misnomer when used to describe 'half-open-bolt'. It's in the same mentality ballpark as calling a rifle with a pistol grip, a...
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 11:49 PM
Not wanting to start something semantic, but as others have stated 'There is No 'half cock' on cock on opening actions' There is a 'Half open bolt position' The two are completely different. I too...
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 11:46 PM
I have trouble believing a firearm with a closed action is safe. I usually use half cock. Providing Ive checked it out and it has a half cock notch. Greg Duley did a very good article in their...
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 11:24 PM
One big thing to watch for in push feed actions is the fact that upon chambering a round, you don’t fully engage the bolt, ie. straight to half cock after chambering, then try to extract a round, the...
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 10:39 PM
OK, (big sigh). Someone touched on this previously, the history of the 'half cock' in NZ springs from the Lee Enfield rifles where the back of the bolt has a little lump machined into the back of...
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 10:39 PM
Brought myself a new pair of leather boots a few weeks back, meindl gufferts, smothered them in the sports wax that came with the boots but after 15 to 20 hours of wearing them in they still bloody...
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 10:26 PM
today Greg Murphy was speaker at work do..in his garage is a 1600 sport escort......
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 10:06 PM
Maybe rephrase your statement once you will have put your hands on a Winchester 70. The m70 is kind of 2/3 cock on opening and 1/3 cock on closing.( or 3/4-1/4) So 7mm tragic is not completely wrong...
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 09:55 PM
My father always told me as long as you have fuel and a handful of bullets the worlds your oyster. We all get carried away with gear but mainly out of too much time on the internet. We never...
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 09:54 PM
Oh boy oh boy have I got a senario for you...... I play this one out on regular basis witH new shooters I will open rifle and demonstrate it is empty and lean it up against tree then turn back walk...
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 09:38 PM
it works...but wouldnt rely on it....lol unless man eater was up in tree above me LOL.... funny the things you try when YDFOC.....
Liked On: 26-07-2023, 09:38 PM