Losing the plot. Sorry, I mean the bolt...

[The Ratbasher]

Yes, I'm a complete wazzack !.
I've managed to lose the bolt for my CZ 452 .17hmr !.
I've searched high and low. In the house, and the car, the garden path, EVERYWHERE. And not a sniff !.
So, if all else fails. Does anyone know where to get a replacent from, or is it ANOTHER new rifle time ?.
And you at the back. Stop bloody laughing !.

 

[The Singing Stalker]

It is only lost until you buy a new one, then it will turn up straight away.

 

[The Ratbasher]

Ain't that the truth ?. LOL

 

[ASHCROFT9491]

Hope it turns up the search, isn't it a attempt you'd have to report as lost as sure an rfd won't just sell you a bolt without it as a slot on your ticket as a pressure bearing part. Or I could be wrong

 

[Lever357]

I have a good friend who is an RFd and he has at least 1 person a year who has lost a bolt. Usually stalkers, comeback to the car and take the bolt out and put it on the roof of the car!!!
The last one was for a Sako 308 and the total price to replace the bolt was over £800!!

 

[GGC96]

There's a few in the holts sealed bid auction - might be able to find one cheap on there.

 

[User00056]

Checked all your pockets? Bag? Binocular case, etc?

I'm a firm advocate to have the bolt in the rifle at all times, but smartarse 'told you so's are just not helpful at times like this. Hope you find it

 

[The Ratbasher]

In which case, I'm glad it's only a CZ. LOL Need to find it though as the bugger is on gun trader. Be a bloody expensive peashooter.

 

[The Ratbasher]

LOL !. You're right I suppose. But I always keep the bolts in a seperate safe.

 

[Essexsussex]

It is only lost until you buy a new one, then it will turn up straight away.

Which actually happened to me

 

[enfieldspares]

Alas you will need to, within seven days of discovering the fact that you have irrevocably lost it, report the loss to the police. It may as I have had pens and keys do have fallen through a hole in a pocket and be inside the lining of your coat.

 

[The Ratbasher]

Alas you will need to, within seven days of discovering the fact that you have irrevocably lost it, report the loss to the police. It may as I have had pens and keys do have fallen through a hole in a pocket and be inside the lining of your coat.

I know it never got as far as my coat. Bur I'll be beggared if I can think where it could possibly be ?.

 

[25 Sharps]

You’ll have to get a variation for a new one

 

[enfieldspares]

I know it never got as far as my coat. Bur I'll be beggared if I can think where it could possibly be ?.

So work back logically to where you usually "mate" and "unmate" bolt and rifle. It can only be thereabouts or nearbouts as by design it cannot fall out of the rifle even if, with the CZ/BRNO it is carried with the bolt open. So if alas that is when getting out of, or into, your car that may be where it has become misplaced. If it is "mated" and "unmated" in your house it maybe underneath the folding over lip at the bottom of the inside of your gun cabinet. The usual refuge for loose cartridges.

 

[Jura]

When you find it or replace it, get your local sadler to make a couple of bolt holsters.

 

[Moose67]

walk around chanting BOLT BOLT BOLT BOLT

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Yes, I'm a complete wazzack !.
I've managed to lose the bolt for my CZ 452 .17hmr !.
I've searched high and low. In the house, and the car, the garden path, EVERYWHERE. And not a sniff !.
So, if all else fails. Does anyone know where to get a replacent from, or is it ANOTHER new rifle time ?.
And you at the back. Stop bloody laughing !.

Why take the bolt out?

I NEVER remove the bolt unless I’m cleaning the rifle and once I’m finished cleaning the bolt goes back in!

 

[VSS]

It's obviously not where you think you lost it, or you would have found it by now. So go and look where you're absolutely certain that it isn’t, and that's where it'll be.

(Sounds daft I know, but it's a method that works for me if ever I lose something).

 

[The Ratbasher]

So work back logically to where you usually "mate" and "unmate" bolt and rifle. It can only be thereabouts or nearbouts as by design it cannot fall out of the rifle even if, with the CZ/BRNO it is carried with the bolt open. So if alas that is when getting out of, or into, your car that may be where it has become misplaced. If it is "mated" and "unmated" in your house it maybe underneath the folding over lip at the bottom of the inside of your gun cabinet. The usual refuge for loose cartridges.

For the life of me I can't understand why I didn't fit it sraight into the rifle when I got it out of the cabinet ?. I've turned the house upside down, and also the car. No sign anywhere ?. I think I need a psychic ?. LOL

 

[The Ratbasher]

Why take the bolt out?

I NEVER remove the bolt unless I’m cleaning the rifle and once I’m finished cleaning the bolt goes back in!

I take them out of all my rifle as extra security, and they have their own safe.