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

[The Ratbasher]

walk around chanting BOLT BOLT BOLT BOLT

 

[The Ratbasher]

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

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I think I'll just glue the bugger to my forehead in future ?.

 

[The Ratbasher]

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).

Makes complete sense. Or I could look for something elae ?. That works as well.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

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

Not a legal requirement you don’t need too

 

[enfieldspares]

Not a legal requirement you don’t need too

You did when my FAC was granted back in June 1976. Condition "the bolts are to be stored separately from their rifles" was the standard condition in Leicestershire once upon a time. Thus if you had rifles in this county you had two cabinets. One for the rifle. The other for the ammunition and the bolts. And same applied to pistols. Those had to be store separately from their ammunition. So one cabinet was rifles and pistols and the other was for the ammunition for either and the rifle bolts.

 

[Greenmist]

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

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So you can lose a nice piece of leatherwork as well

 

[Greenmist]

You did when my FAC was granted back in June 1976. Condition "the bolts are to be stored separately from their rifles" was the standard condition in Leicestershire once upon a time. Thus if you had rifles in this county you had two cabinets. One for the rifle. The other for the ammunition and the bolts. And same applied to pistols. Those had to be store separately from their ammunition. So one cabinet was rifles and pistols and the other was for the ammunition for either and the rifle bolts.

What was their suggestion for semi-autos? Surely thats a local condition and not law

 

[M@tt]

So you can lose a nice piece of leatherwork as well

Crazy.
And all my bolt actions have a nice place to store the bolt, built right in.
Handy.

 

[Jura]

So you can lose a nice piece of leatherwork as well

Nah, the holster is supposed to be attached to your belt.

 

[Essexsussex]

Found mine in a coat I hadn’t worn for a year

 

[User00056]

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

I find lost stuff is always in the last place I look.

Sorry

 

[enfieldspares]

What was their suggestion for semi-autos? Surely thats a local condition and not law

Well that's the odd thing really as, yes, it was back in the day before Thatcher's 1988 self-loading rifle ban and such as the M1 Carbine (one of which I had) and the L1A1 SLR (one of which I had on my FAC "on loan") and the AK47 which I had on my RFD authority as "stock" were locked away all complete just as with lever action rifles. I think that the thinking was rightly that a bolt was easily removed from a bolt action rifle of the Mauser or Enfield type. Whereas the "bolt" from a self-loading or lever action rifle wasn't. As you had to partially strip it even if that was only braking it open and or removing a sheet metal top cover.

 

[disco_ike]

Have you checked in the cabinets and around them? Could you have taken it out, put it on the cabinet and it has fallen into the bottom behind the butts of others or down a crack at the side?

 

[Foxyboy43]

Oh dear! If memory serves a new bolt will require reproofing of the assembled rifle which is a total embuggerance. Hope I am wrong…

 

[The Ratbasher]

Not a legal requirement you don’t need too

I know it isn't, but why make it easy for Billy burglar ?. I keep the forends of my shotguns seperate too. Makes the guns unusable should they ever get stolen. As I have just found out.

 

[shakey jake]

I know it isn't, but why make it easy for Billy burglar ?. I keep the forends of my shotguns seperate too. Makes the guns unusable should they ever get stolen. As I have just found out.

i was told that about shotguns, on a clay lesson i was shown different.
you have certainly stopped any one using your rifle, 1 reason i wont seperate the bolt.
if you cant find the bolt might be quicker and cheaper to scrap the rifle and do a 1 4 1
good luck in your hunt

 

[bullet chucker]

Is it STILL in the gun?

BC.

 

[VSS]

Is it STILL in the gun?

BC.

Best place for it!

 

[The Ratbasher]

i was told that about shotguns, on a clay lesson i was shown different.
you have certainly stopped any one using your rifle, 1 reason i wont seperate the bolt.
if you cant find the bolt might be quicker and cheaper to scrap the rifle and do a 1 4 1
good luck in your hunt

I'm beginning to think that way to be honest. 457 it is then. LOL

 

[The Ratbasher]

Is it STILL in the gun?

BC.

Oddly enoufh. I did check. Even after I got to the gun shop and felt a complete tit when the bolt wasn't in the rifle. No P/X there then ?.