Maybe different guns are different (jump to 1:25):
How big of a coincidence is it, really? Gun violence has got to be one of the most popular topics to challenge Kirk on.
The guy he was talking to was from the Unfuck America Tour, I highly doubt he was a lunatic involved with the other lunatic who shot Kirk.
I wonder how hot the cartridge would be, right after the shot.
ETA: I always just let the brass go where it will and police the area when I’m done shooting.
The overwhelming majority of Mauser and other military bolt action rifles have magazines.
Burned my fingers a time or two as a kid…
A magazine-fed bolt action.
I stand by what I said above regarding my competition rifle: a “single shot” rifle is one where you manually insert the rounds, one at a time, into the action. The rifle has no magazine. One shot at a time; reloading is done manually.
Naturally, a magazine-fed bolt action rifle only shoots one round at a time, but there is no need to manually load it after each shot. Working the action feeds another round in. In other words, there can be more than one round in the rifle at any time, so such a rifle is not a single shot rifle.
Political violence is being done every day in this country with the campaign to aggressively detain and deport immigrants who have not committed any violent or felony crimes, many of whom are actually in compliance with previous immigration and asylum requirements. Donald Trump, of course, has openly and enthusiastically advocated for political violence against opponents for going on a decade. It is high time we started talking about political violence in all contexts.
Well, at least one part of that statement is factual. A bolt action rifle has an ejector that expels the spent casing when the action is cycled. If the shooter is really careful and doesn’t mind handling hot brass they can slowly pull back the bolt and pluck the partially ejected shell from the chamber but that isn’t typically what is done, and a shell ejected normally is no “easily caught by the shooter” because the hand that would catch it is working the bolt.
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Can’t edit with videos in it and now, weirdly, it seems copying a video with a timestamp on it ends it at the timestamp.
I’m sure you all can sort it out and see it if you want. Sorry for the fuss.
So the shooter, being anxious to vamoose right after the shot, wouldn’t be inclined to pick up the brass?
Unless your rifle is old enough to have a magazine cut off switch!
It wasn’t bad enough to preclude picking it up in an “emergency” situation… or to make me smart enough to only burn myself once!
How far are shell casings flung from a bolt action rifle? Pinged out 10 feet or more? Something less? If you really wanted to collect your casings would you hunt for the far-flung casings, get a casing catcher or just be careful when cycling the bolt?
If it’s got a scope, you could, say, drape a handy towel over it to act as a makeshift brass catcher when you set up to take your shot…
Less. Maybe two feet, tops; typically less. One match that I competed in, they had so many points (shooting positions) that we were all squeezed tightly on the line. In spite of that, the shooter on my right asked if I could move a little to my left, as my ejected brass was landing on her head.
At least from my rifle they don’t eject that far, but the softness/hardness of the surface they land on will affect how far they boing away.
ETA: Or skitter. Or roll.
I had a .222 that was… aggressive about ejecting the casing. Shot it many, many feet away…
Agreed.
I’m of the opinion that the media, which often is absolutely terrible about actions and gun types, is actually being close enough in describing a bolt action with magazine single shot. I’d say the same about any non-semi action.
I guess the issue is, with a bolt action rifle meant to take one and maybe two shots as an assassin (doubt you would get more than two), how much effort is there in collecting the cases?
And, if you are leaving the whole gun behind, do the cases matter a lot? I guess it is one more data point for the police to track you down. Still…
Unless you are one of my Facebook friends, who just shared a meme claiming that things like mold in public housing constitute “political violence.” I barely restrained myself from posting “Get off of my side, you’re making us look stupid.”