Is this normal?

[Con]

Guys,
Pulled this from an Australian forum.

Without my rifles to look at and compare its got me stumped ... but shouldn't the opening on the bolt face be in the downward position?

Cheers...
Con

 

[mattsbox99]

That would make it load easier. Remingtons have been entirely recessed for years though and they work just fine.

 

[picketpin]

Nope. That's what my 77s look like. Okay mine are all MKIs so the ejector is different but the bolt face/recess is the same.

RWt

 

[RJ556]

Wait a minute. Being stainless, it has to be a MKII. So, all MKII's are control round feed. That means that the head of the case slides vertically up the non-fenced bottom side of the bolt head as the round is moving forward into the chamber, until the vertical movement is stopped by the bolt head rim at the TOP of the bolt. I say, as the OP has indicated, something is wrong with that picture. I am at work now, so I can't go grab one of my 77's to compare.

 

[Con]

RJ556,
You win the cigar! Its a MKII, it shouldn't look like this, the cut out should be at the bottom allowing the case to slide up under the extractor claw. This one acts as a pushfeed only ... a hybrid action ... or a left handed bolt stuffed onto a right handed gun?
Cheers...
Con

 

[Con]

Okay ... seems to have been sorted. Its a first generation MkII ... absolute earliest were bump feed/pushfeed.
Cheers...
Con

 

[Sugar River]

Okay ... seems to have been sorted. Its a first generation MkII ... absolute earliest were bump feed/pushfeed.
Cheers...
Con

Correct! The switch to CRF in the Mkll occurred circa 1991. I happened to overhear comments from the bolt action assembly line about the 4 pages of new checks and procedures required after the change.


Pete

 

[Watergoat]

Blimey !!! Don't you realize this is from the land down under???????