Can a bolt action rifle be fast?

Wow boomer... was that a 375 H&H? if so i must say you handled that like a man, man...
Thats fast shooting a no sissy gun. So the answer is yes, a bolt gun can be fast in the hands of a competant shooter.
 
Now consider a group of 20 men shooting .303 bolt action rifles with 10 shot clips and using strippers to reload. I think we forget just how good the old Lee Enfields were as battle weapons.
 
mikeystew said:
Wow boomer... was that a 375 H&H? if so i must say you handled that like a man, man...
Thats fast shooting a no sissy gun. So the answer is yes, a bolt gun can be fast in the hands of a competant shooter.
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Actually its a .375 Ultra, but the short barrel produces velocities similar those from a long barreled .375 H&H . . . with a bit to spare.
 
Boomer said:
The nice thing about a bolt gun is that you don't have to wait for the gas to cycle the action. Once you get into cartridges with enough power that the recoil takes you off target, the difference between the bolt gun and the gas gun is diminished as it takes about the same amount of time to recover from recoil and get back on the target, during which time there is plenty of time to cycle a bolt manually.

I doubt that a gas gun shooter would get more aimed shots off in this drill given a rifle with similar recoil as the 270 gr Hornadys at well over 2800 that I was flinging at the moving target in the following video . . .
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Is the pail a Polar bear cub attacking you? I would have shot the Jeep instead. lol

I like that form of practice. Thanks for sharing. There goes my ammo supply..................
 
jethunter said:
Now consider a group of 20 men shooting .303 bolt action rifles with 10 shot clips and using strippers to reload. I think we forget just how good the old Lee Enfields were as battle weapons.
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Good enough to convince the Germans they were facing machine guns instead of riflemen.
 
I had to let quite a few go at a wounded deer a couple of years ago. The rest of the camp wanted to know who else was shooting or if it was a semi. Guess a bolt gun can be kind of quick. (Course if I had hit the damn deer right in the first place it would not have been an issue, that's what I get for being greedy)

Have also shot 10 rounds inside 45 seconds at vintage military shoots, using straight pulls and turn bolts,all with less than 10 round mags (no LE), so my time includes a reload.
 
To my mind if I want fast its either a lever or a pump and both are usually quite accurate in the process. Like to see that put against a Remmie pump 308. Prolly half the time and hitting all the shots.
 
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