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Thats the HEV end again haha. Bloody EV's - won't even let a good petrol ICE do it's thing!

Only one brown spot - size may vary?

On the subject of half-cock, it has nothing to do with the type of hunting, area you hunt or the numbers of animals - it's solely to do with the design of the firearm.

Semi shotguns - this...

You haven't trip with a loop of string around something solid? Loop it over the cocking piece, pull and turn. Kinda embarrassing when you work out how simple it is haha.

One interesting point on the Lee Enfield design, during both wars they started making simplified cocking pieces to get more rifles out the door. These didn't have the half-cock safety notch, finger...

Problem with your theory is some designs have no inbuilt mechanism to prevent the firing pin from releasing at half open bolt positions. So, if the firing pin were to be released (sear dropped) the...

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...