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Hi RBPeople are correct…until you experience an actual charge, mine was a lion this past year dropping at 7 yards from me everything else is just what people think they would do. I can tell you this, reloading my double without having to look down and keeping an empty loop between every two shells has been what i have spent all winter doing…i feel i can now do it in my sleep. so critical in a charge situation
Every other loop is what I went to a long time ago. A good friend and a PH Lou Hallimore that works with us has a device that goes on you fingers and drops two shells into your double fast. I will show you Liesls when you get here.
ASLon, I can’t say with 100% confidence that I will not modify my bolt cycling even more.
When using bold actions in the past, I’ve always casually just racked them in at normal speed. never with the practice for an animal being 20 yards from me and closing.
But to your question Lon, every so often using the open palm, which I actually prefer.
when coming all the way back to the bolt stop and then transitioning to forward. Because of the scope I keep my fingers pointed straight up.
The bolt knob would occasionally slip off my palm at the bolt stop.
Without a scope the palm works much better.
The best part is I’m no longer short stroking the bolt when running it fast. I’m trying to burn it in. So at crunch time I’m ready.
Just a thought for the future you might think about the mini red dots. I am a firm believer. If you were hunting with us 50 meters would probably be your max shooting distance we do little plains game hunting.
Yesterday one of our clients was so close to a ele he said he could almost touch it. He did not think about shooting. Aagghh.
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