Safely unloading lever actions

[John Y Cannuck]

I use the method in the original post. Saves wear and tear on the cartridge rim too.
Yes, you can get the cartridge to come out the gate, but it's a pain, hard on the fingers, and slow as hell, with the 30-30, or other small cartridges. Sometimes they even come out in a stream of several cartridges, and they end up in the snow anyway.
Hey we're gunnutz, why not just shoot 'em?

 

[gitrdun]

When unloading my 444, I've been cycling thru the action but using the cross-bolt safety and my gun pointed in a safe direction. That video is pretty slick I must say, and if it saves wear & tear on my shells, I'm going to try it later on today.

 

[bobbyjack]

X2

I don't know how anyone can think repeatably spinning a loaded rifle around is safer than just cycling the damn thing.

Cause everytime you cycle that thing the bullet hits the ramp and bullet set-back can happen,best just load one from the top side when you can.

And just tilt the lever back and catch the shells without levering them!

Bob

 

[Win 38-55]

Crap! Doesn't work with my 30-30. The lower fork of the loading gate won't go in far enough to allow the bottom of the case to pass.

Would it work to push the last cartridge a little further in to clear that loading gate? Or if you could pull the base of the cartridge out a bit to clear the loading gate, the others may come right along?

 

[leadslinger]

I have a 92 in ,44 mag.
if you put it upside down to rack out rounds , it jams.
it runs flawlessly right side up, just dont wear gloves when clearing it out.

 

[JerryJeffWalker]

Anything stop beating the crap out of the bullets as well as the brass is worthy of mention. My 86, 71, and GG are all real hard on rounds cycled from the tube mag. After a 6 day trip in the bush and loading and unloading a few times my 45/70 rounds looked like they had been through a meat grinder.