Straight-bolt shooting rapid fire

[shredder]

Hey, milsurp shooters, got a question here.

When you're shooting multiple rounds out of the magazine of your straight-bolt turnbolt rifle (Mosin-Nagant, French Lebel, Gewehr 98, etc) do you keep the rifle butt in your shoulder, or do you drop the butt out of your shoulder for easier bolt manipulation?

You straight-pull bolt gun guys can chime in here too.

When shooting my 91/30, I find it easier to drop the butt off my shoulder to work the bolt.

 

[Skylark 4]

K31,1912 Chilean, 38 Swede all stay at shoulder. M95 may drop down as it's got a real stiff bolt action.

Ken

 

[smellie]

If you are shooting PRONE as the Army demanded back in the Lee-Enfield days, you can just move your head out of the way and flip the bolt back with the index and second fingers of the right hand, then chamber the next round with the heel of the thumb, your hand rotating as you do so. Your trigger-finger lands ON the trigger. A bit of practice and you can even take the first pressure as you do so. Of course, this works only for Lee-Enfields, but it is a part of what gave them a 67-round-per-minute rate of fire, 37 rounds aimed with all hits at 200.

With a ROSS, just raise your head a bit and tug the bolt back and slap it forth.

Moisin-Nagant NEEDS a solid wrench on the bolt, as do many others; for this, dropping the rifle is almost de rigeur.

 

[diopter]

Butt stays on shoulder, and here is the important part....
get your face off the rifle as you operated the bolt!

91/30s can be a !@#$ to operate.

 

[davemccarthy707]

The key with the 91/30 is to rotate the rifle AND the bolt together. It takes a bit of practice but it can be done effectively.

 

[Blastattack]

Butt stays on shoulder, and here is the important part....
get your face off the rifle as you operated the bolt!

91/30s can be a !@#$ to operate.

Maybe I'm just small, but I've never had any issue with face/bolt interaction. I whacked myself in the face with the bolt from my Ross, granted I also forgot to engage the bolt stop...

 

[sean69]

Depends on the length of the bolt, I try to keep everything in place to maintain the cheek weld from shot to shot ~ I think I only have one or two rifles that will actually not open without moving my cheel [almost all will at least touch!] my 1889 Swiss [thanks Nabs!] you have to move your face out of the way.

 

[shredder]

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