kBob
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tark,
Yep my Savage 6DL-NR can eat about anything Short long or long rifle and no floating chamber to worry about. As I have said it sometimes works even with crimped shot and CCI CB Longs.......of course if it does not feed those last two semi auto well enough I can always "press the button" and turn the old Model 6 into a bolt action of sorts.
When I was a kid I used to use the bolt lock feature to shoot individual round as I thought the bullets had a higher velocity with the bolt locked and believed that accuracy was better. In high school I shot it on our 50 foot .22 range at school and found no difference in accuracy and my physics teacher insisted there should be no difference in velocity with the bolt locked or un locked.
When shooting CB Longs the Model 6 is quieter being used with the bolt locked to prevent the CLICK-CLACK that gives the guns their nick name.
On quiet .22 ammo though I always recall the dark and distant past......
Once when about 13 I was walking along a river bank in South Georgia I heard a mild "pop" and expected to see a kid with a pump up air rifle around the next bend. Instead I found a couple of brothers with a Winchester 67 shooting .22LR. The "pop" rather than "bang" was because they had sodered a good two feet of copper tube on the muzzle of the rifle. It functioned like the bloop tube some .22 match shooters used to extend their sight radius when shooting in iron sight matches. They had not how ever moved the front sight to the end of the tube. I expressed concern that this might be thought of by the local Laird High Sheriff or State Game Warden as a "Silencer." I was assured that was not the intent .......for they had made it to shoot fish with.....at night.....under a bright lantern. They put a plug of potato in the end of the tube, eased the tube into the water over a large fish and "Blooop" recovered the shot or stunned fish. The fact that it could be used to drop squirrels from trees with a mild "pop" and no potato was just a plus in their minds.
I decided it was pointless to continue talking to these brothers and got elsewhere least I be found in their company and tarred with the same brush!
-kBob
Yep my Savage 6DL-NR can eat about anything Short long or long rifle and no floating chamber to worry about. As I have said it sometimes works even with crimped shot and CCI CB Longs.......of course if it does not feed those last two semi auto well enough I can always "press the button" and turn the old Model 6 into a bolt action of sorts.
When I was a kid I used to use the bolt lock feature to shoot individual round as I thought the bullets had a higher velocity with the bolt locked and believed that accuracy was better. In high school I shot it on our 50 foot .22 range at school and found no difference in accuracy and my physics teacher insisted there should be no difference in velocity with the bolt locked or un locked.
When shooting CB Longs the Model 6 is quieter being used with the bolt locked to prevent the CLICK-CLACK that gives the guns their nick name.
On quiet .22 ammo though I always recall the dark and distant past......
Once when about 13 I was walking along a river bank in South Georgia I heard a mild "pop" and expected to see a kid with a pump up air rifle around the next bend. Instead I found a couple of brothers with a Winchester 67 shooting .22LR. The "pop" rather than "bang" was because they had sodered a good two feet of copper tube on the muzzle of the rifle. It functioned like the bloop tube some .22 match shooters used to extend their sight radius when shooting in iron sight matches. They had not how ever moved the front sight to the end of the tube. I expressed concern that this might be thought of by the local Laird High Sheriff or State Game Warden as a "Silencer." I was assured that was not the intent .......for they had made it to shoot fish with.....at night.....under a bright lantern. They put a plug of potato in the end of the tube, eased the tube into the water over a large fish and "Blooop" recovered the shot or stunned fish. The fact that it could be used to drop squirrels from trees with a mild "pop" and no potato was just a plus in their minds.
I decided it was pointless to continue talking to these brothers and got elsewhere least I be found in their company and tarred with the same brush!
-kBob
