Thread: Stupid

Decided to get the 3006 out and try some 165 gr game king loads I'd made for an upcoming few days away.
I don't often use this rifle, a parker hale safari from the early 60s but this is a special occasion an overnighter with an old friend and he's got a sako forester.
So I load the bike with groundsheet, targets, spotting scope, ammo, rifle etc and head off on the 10 minute ride to my flat paddock "range" get everything set up to start at 100 and go out to 400. Get behind the rifle, get comfy drop a round onto the floor plate and close the bolt or try to just as I think oops.
The action unlike all my other rifles is control feed so I've jammed the cartridge in the chamber with bugger all chance of having the extractor slip over it, a few hopeful thumps on the ground confirm it's stuck solid and I didn't bring a rod.
In a bit of a mood I drive home, clear it and decide on having lunch and a coffee before going back.
Over the hill comes a thunderstorm, just a personalized one for our part of the valley. When it stops I will go pick up all the now soaked stuff I left there come back home and sulk for the rest of the day.

yip,you get days like that....enjoy your hunt with your buddy anyway....

Ive remembered to bring a rod every time I go shooting except for the two times I've actually needed it. Murphys law!

I learnt some time ago that my two Rem 700's can easily swap bolts and close......but won't work for either

@Marty Henry you could hire out your services to drought stricken land owners in the future
Growth industry for your specailised skill set

And I thought you were going to say you had taken the wrong ammo
If a multi choice question this would not have been my first pick of what went wrong

Yip , some days were all the pigeons, other days we're simply the Statues.

My dad's hunting rifle when I was a kid was a Parker Hale Safari Deluxe in 308. I grew to hate the controlled round feed with a passion. You just brough back some bad memories ......

Oh, and it was the first and only rifle that ever 'scoped me'. I learned the painful way not to crawl up the stock when prone.

Mate you need to move north to a better climate, when I moved from Masterton to Tauranga, my mate in KatiKati told me about the extra 3 months I’d get in my life every year, he wasn’t wrong

While the extractor can be modified to be able to do that there is a trick you can do by pushing hard on the middle of the extractor beside the bolt you push the it home.
It forces the extractor out so the lip can push over the rim
More a get out of jail then something you can do all the time.
And yes I have tried it