Originally Posted by nsaqam
Originally Posted by Blackheart
Horse puckey ! You aren't seriously telling me you, Tikka or anybody else has any expectations of being protected from 60,000 psi gasses by a 1/32" thick plastic shroud are you ?


Nope, I'd say the plastic T-3 shroud would end up in your face but a steel or aluminum one may work just fine dealing with whatever gas gets into the bolt body from a pierced primer.

One advantage of the cheap Savage 110 action is that the back of the bolt is completely blocked by the bolt assembly screw.


Tad more than a pierced primer, I can tell you from experience of having a .308 getting let off in a .270 that the shooter got a small puff of gas in the face and that was it, did not realize the extent of the problem until he could not open the bolt. Only casualty was a crack in the housing.

Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.

"In rifle work, group size is of some interest...but it is well to remember that a rifleman does not shoot groups, he shoots shots." Jeff Cooper