straight pull question

Hello,

In a Mannlicher m-95, is it normal once its lock and load (without a bullet in) that the bolt can still be pulled off even if the cocking piece is armed?

thanks

JP

What do you mean exactly? The action locks by means of a rotary bolt head, that rotates within the hollow bolt handle/assembly. Firing pressure will not cause the handle to move back, rotate the head, or unlock the bolt. The handle has to be manually withdrawn to begin this process. The only way to keep the bolt handle from withdrawing by manual forcce is to engage the safety.

It may be counter-intuitive to begin with, but it sounds like your M-95 is fine. That is unless you are trying to describe the entire bolt assembly being pulled out of the rifle. There is a bolt stop on the trigger assembly that keeps the bolt in the rifle every time the bolt is withdrawn all the way to the rear, on the firing cycle.

Hope this helps a little.

r22r, sfoster has anwered your query, but just think about the alternative:

If you could NOT withdraw the bolt after cocking it, then that would mean you would be COMPELLED to fire the rifle before withdrawing the bolt. That would be a pretty hazardous design, and I doubt that any rifle has ever been designed like that. (That's challenging fate - somone will now enlighten us all by naming an example of such a lunatic construction!)

Patrick
:wave:

Thanks guys

Well there such a thing as pressure-release triggers out there. Seen them on high end shotguns (not on military firearms though). The one type of military firearm that I can think which as far as I know CANNOT be unloaded/made safe WITHOUT firing would be a gatling gun, since it doesn't have a "trigger" per se but the entire firing sequence is mechanically driven thru rotation of the barrels. Never heard of such a feature on any bolt-action rifles though.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Chadwick

r22r, sfoster has anwered your query, but just think about the alternative:

If you could NOT withdraw the bolt after cocking it, then that would mean you would be COMPELLED to fire the rifle before withdrawing the bolt. That would be a pretty hazardous design, and I doubt that any rifle has ever been designed like that. (That's challenging fate - somone will now enlighten us all by naming an example of such a lunatic construction!)

Patrick
:wave:

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