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Offline flmason

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Sticky Primers after Firing? Bolt vrs. Break Action?
« on: August 01, 2009, 10:34:04 PM »
Was reading Busta's .45 Sabotless tests... he mentions he had trouble removing primers and that the bolt would have to come out.

Clearly an undesired issue in a hunting situation.

Is this a common problem? Is it a vote for break actions instead of bolt actions?

Have to admit, I was expecting some sort of primer extractor built into these guns for some reason. (Probably my experience with smokeless cartridge guns there. But could swear I saw a photo of at least one inline that did have an extractor of some sort.)

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Re: Sticky Primers after Firing? Bolt vrs. Break Action?
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2009, 05:03:40 AM »
flmason,

That was during my testing of magnum sabotless charges with the Non-Full Plastic Jacket. If the Red Jackets were used in a hunting situation, I don't think that would be a problem. The primers were getting stuck in the bolt adapter, some primers are worse than others.

While I would prefer them to drop out, it really isn't that big of a deal if you have the spring loaded bolt retaining pin. I just pull back on the pin, rotate the bolt out, pop out primer, reinsert bolt. Takes about 5 seconds. I will try it with the Red Jackets before season, to test for ignition, and function.
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