Thread: Half cock or safety

One big thing to watch for in push feed actions is the fact that upon chambering a round, you don’t fully engage the bolt, ie. straight to half cock after chambering, then try to extract a round, the extractor wouldn’t have been engaged and loaded round will stay in chamber.

I’ve seen it twice where someone has gone straight to half cock in a Tikka and then not fired a shot, gone to extract the round later and nothing comes out of extraction port. They’ve then assumed that they never picked up a round from the magazine in the first instance, closed the bolt, therefore loading a live round in the chamber without even knowing.