Now this is a neat video.
I couldn’t help but get REALLY g33ky watching this.
Seeing that Ian got beat cleanly in the pistol stages I am assuming that Carl is the better shooter overall. The Hi-Power is a better gun over the Walther P38 in every way.
I must say all the advantages/disadvantages of the guns, one thing they didn’t talk about was how damn fast the Enfield is. I must say, one gun-g33k lament I have is that the world has accepted the Mauser Action as the de-facto bolt-action. Now the Mauser action is stronger and better designed, but DAMN I love the cock-on-closing action. It takes a bit to get used to if you’ve logged some time running cock-on-open guns, but once you get used to it, it is so natural to just SLAM that action closed once you’ve ejected the spent shell. So you have a light stroke on the gun when you eject the spent shell (this goes double if the extraction is a little sticky from a shell that over-expands, or a dirty chamber), and the action of
I guess I’d love to see somebody make a Mauser-action gun that cocks on closing. I just see that as a gun that gets close to semi-auto speed but with all the benefits of a bolt action.
So yeah, cool video.
A cock-on-closing Mauser bolt action, you say? You mean like the P-14, US1917, and the 93-95-96 Mausers?
Interesting! You know I’m not much of an expert on bolt actions, and while I’ve handled a few M1917s, I’ve never really looked at the action too hard to see how it locks up, I also really don’t know how the Mauser action vents ruptured cases down into the mag well, I just know they do it, and do it well.
Really my dismay comes when I see fighting bolt-actions like the Ruger Scout rifle all set up for all sorts of cool use, but with the slower cock-on-opening action. I’ll need to look more into those rifles you mentioned.
Originals models were all cock on closing, but a lot of sporterized models have been converted- it requires a different cocking piece and tailpiece on the bolt. I suppose it would be possible to build a converter to go the other way, too.