How do you have one in the chamber and a full magazine with a CRF bolt action?

Slimbo said:
It makes me want to shoot myself but I still can’t figure out how to load my rifle…..
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Find and read the Owner's Manual for your rifle. Most available on-line for free. I must have looked through a dozen since this thread started - all of them tell you how to load your rifle... If it is a converted Milsurp, often can find that country's instructions for its soldiers...
 
Potashminer said:
Find and read the Owner's Manual for your rifle. Most available on-line for free. I must have looked through a dozen since this thread started - all of them tell you how to load your rifle... If it is a converted Milsurp, often can find that country's instructions for its soldiers...
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I should try that. Reading the instructions.
 
Interesting thread here. Might get the same traction or response, in the pistol and revolver section, with dry firing on an empty chamber or letting the slide go on an empty chamber with those who do and those who don't or won't. .
 
If it is a new rifle ruger or model 70 they are not a true contrôlée feed you can close the bolt and the extractor will slip over the case . If it is a old Mauser or some such vintage gun then you need to approach it differently
 
I've learned a lot from this thread. Nothing about rifles, mind you, but quite a bit about the human thought process; or the lack thereof.
 
Leeper said:
I've learned a lot from this thread. Nothing about rifles, mind you, but quite a bit about the human thought process; or the lack thereof.
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I'm amazed at all the learning here as well especially learning that all these years when single loading rather than pressing the cartridge down and closing the bolt I should've just laid it on top of the follower and while closing the bolt work my fingers around and squeeze the back part of the extractor to help it ride over the cartridge rim. . How the dickens did I miss this time saving procedure?
 
Yup and after the time saving single loading procedure I learned that when I'm out hunting that 5 rounds of 30-06 or 270 or 4 rounds of 375, in my pre-64 M70, isn't enough and there's this procedure to cram another round in the gun. . How I missed that one I don't know. . Don't recall ever needing more than 2 rounds to get the job done.
 
So, as previously mentioned - you are hours or days worth of walking up a mountain and your partner or client has managed to shove a cartridge into his original mauser type chamber - he can not close the bolt - has now really "jammed it in there". What are you going to do?? Walk for hours or days to get back out, or show him how to manipulate that original extractor to grab and get the cartridge out? An unusually well prepared guide might have a cleaning rod to try to tap it out - but those things tend to be left behind when "ounces" count on the trip up. I have really no experience as a guide, but certainly have gone out with "partners" who turned out to be complete "dolts" in-so-far as how their stuff was meant to work, and who were very much capable of that maneuver. The same guys that go on a 10 hour walk and bring 3 cartridges with them - as if the notion that they were very capable of "missing" or wounding had never, ever crossed their mind...
 
Rod said:
Yup and after the time saving single loading procedure I learned that when I'm out hunting that 5 rounds of 30-06 or 270 or 4 rounds of 375, in my pre-64 M70, isn't enough and there's this procedure to cram another round in the gun. . How I missed that one I don't know. . Don't recall ever needing more than 2 rounds to get the job done.
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We’ll, considering that it was the OP’s exact question seemed fair that we try to answer it.
 
bcsteve said:
We’ll, considering that it was the OP’s exact question seemed fair that we try to answer it.
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Boomer answered the OP's question in post #2 and Woodlotowner in post #9.

I may have missed this but I don't recall, in 12 pages, anyone asking if it was a factory built 375 H&H or a converted military action of which the bolt face would have needed altering and different extractor installed for the larger rim size.
 
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While a bolt face would need opening to handle a larger diameter case head, most builders would alter the extractor to function with same. All other comments made regarding the function of the extractor would still apply. I have learned, on this thread and others, a "Model 98-type action", can mean anything with two forward lugs and a long extractor. Likewise, the long acknowledged difficulty encountered if a cartridge is fed in ahead of the extractor in a Mauser, has been transferred to every action with a long extractor; although most were designed, from the outset, to snap over the rim of a single loaded round.
 
And that is a good system. Has absolutely nothing to do with Model 70's or Springfields, mind you, and is not applicable if you have slid a round in ahead of the extractor but a good way of loading that sixth round, nonetheless.
 
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