SleazyRider
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Forgive my dumbness, but it's my understanding that the little tombstone-shaped "indexing tab" that locks the cylinder of a revolver into place is called a bolt. Why is it so named, when it performs a different function than the bolt on a rifle? Or am I missing something in the definition of "bolt" that applies to both rifle and revolver? After all, a trigger is a trigger and a sight is a sight, so why is the same term used to describe two very different things?
Just curious, is all.
Just curious, is all.