pull / push actions

[popcan]

Why aren't there more actions of the type similar to what biathlon rifles use, ie the Anschutz push/pull bolt action?

Are they seriously more expensive to produce, and therefore not mass-marketable?

I had the opportunity to use one once, and cycling is really super fast and smooth to operate - just imagine a CZ .22 with an action like that! I'd buy one!

 

[outoftowner]

I do believe there is the browning t-bolt which is similar, and there produced in pretty good numbers.

 

[JustBen]

I've always wondering if it would be possible to modify a 10/22 to a manual action operating in just this fashion.

 

[bullzeye]

don't think it can be done. 10/22 has no locking lugs-straight blowback.

 

[Splatter]

Something like the browning 'T'-bolt would be ideal to make into something like that.
I'm not completely sure how the Anschutz action works; but I believe the action is operated by "pull-release" in that the action is closed by the operation of a spring that is compressed when the action is pulled open.