New rifles with spare bolts and mags?

I’m not defending the practice but a lot of stores display bolt actions sans bolt and I think there is an old cfsc illustration that depicts a cable lock around the rear strap of the action. There was a time where guns were left behind doors and the bolt with a handful of cartridges were in a cigar tin kept in the everything drawer.
 
Brian46 said:
Central bolt storage provided by government
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I once saw a picture of a Norwegian hunter wearing his rifle bolt in a leather "bolt holster" while he carried his bolt-less rifle on his back. I don't know what the firearms or hunting laws are in Norway, but apparently it was legally necessary for whatever type of hunt he was on.

I know there are some hunts in Norway that require single shots only and repeating rifles must have a government approved magazine blocking device installed.
 
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I was in the Sports Shop a few year back just after the start of hunting season, there was a guy buying a rifle because he left his bolt at home.
 
WereWeasel said:
I’m not defending the practice but a lot of stores display bolt actions sans bolt and I think there is an old cfsc illustration that depicts a cable lock around the rear strap of the action. There was a time where guns were left behind doors and the bolt with a handful of cartridges were in a cigar tin kept in the everything drawer.
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I've never seen this in Ontario
 
For those who can not keep track where they stashed their Remington 2 lug bolt(s) for safe keeping...there is an option-

Take a measurement of the bolt lug lengths of which there are 3 options.
90+ % will have a prick punch mark centered in the lug circumference=.440" mean lug length.
No punch mark=.436" lug length.
A V shape circular ring around the lug circumference=.444" lug length

Annotate the lug length for said rifle/bolt.
(the last 4 digits of the serial number are etched in the bolt body at 6o'clock)

On an un-molested Remington 2 lug action
key word-UN-MOLESTED
no truing/blueprinting/lug lapping etc.

Bolts WILL interchange w/o a headspace issue.

Barrels will interchange w/o a headspace issue....but 90% probability that the barrel will NOT clock up correctly.

Rem 721 L/A,722 S/A & 700 L/A & S/A 4,5,6 digit serial numbered receivers do NOT have the anti bind slot in the bolt lug.
Rem 700 7 digit,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,RR,S,TT actions/bolt lugs have the anti bind slot in the lug as do Model Seven,673,XR100,XP-100R's.
600,660,XP-100 bolt lugs do NOT have the anti bind slot.

Fact...not Fiction.
 
blargon said:
Its always the rifles that have been out of production for 40 years that are missing bolts. It was safer in the 70's to hide your bolts.
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Yup .... The old guys would hide the bolts separate from the rifle for "safe storage" purposes and then die. Now the bolt is gone.
 
A spare mag would be a bonus, and maybe spare bolt parts like the springs, firing pin and extractor. A small bag of parts would probably go missing over time, unless diligently marked and stored.

As far as removing the bolt from a rifle for storage - many Military and Law Enforcement organizations do this with their service firearms. Former members may do this with personal firearms, just out of habituated training.
 
I don't regularly remove bolts for storage but- long story short- at one time a long time ago I had to remove a bolt for legal storage. I put the bolt in with the cutlery in the kitchen. Stainless bolt in there mixed in with the knives and forks and unless you were looking for it, you would never notice it, but it's not like the owner could forget it either. So if you are going to remove your bolt, I recommend kitchen storage. :)
 
Do we really want to inflate the base price of rifles for parts that may never be used? If you want a spare mag, and I do, then buy it separately when you buy the rifle. The rest can wait until required.
 
A buddy stored the bolt for his Model 70 separate from the rifle as he had no other way at the time to store it safely. When he moved to a new house the bolt was no where to be found. I told him to buy a replacement and the original bolt will turn up very quickly. Sure enough he bought the bolt ( not cheap) and a week or two later he found the bolt wrapped up with some aquarium supplies. Somehow got mixed in the move. I wonder if he stores both bolts separately now?

Darryl
 
You guys got me so paranoid that I reinserted all the bolts into my rifles and fully reorganized my safe so that they can all fit. Now I have one rifle with no home in the safe. I need a new wall rack for it. :)
 
A friend of mine put about 7 bolts ( mostly Sako) in a plastic bag and hid them separately from his rifles... A year later he could not find them... two years later still missing... then he remembered where he hid them... found them and they were all rusty, some worse than others. His rifles of course still look new... except for the damaged bolts.

If you are removing bolts for storage I suggest storing them with your ammunition locked up nice and dry...
 
If you’re too senile to remember where you put your bolt, then it’s probably for the best that you don’t recover it anyhow.
 
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