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This is a bolt handle. You access the chamber by unlocking and retracting it, using your hand. They come in many shapes and sizes. Where and how you use it determines the size and shape required. The era in which they were made also determined the size and shape. There are many different ones.

There are cylinders, knobs, slats, flats, spoons, knurled, balls, teardrop and tactical types. They are generally made of some kind of metal, although synthetic material has been used, but usually on the handle only, and then, only for decoration. The metal can be stainless, blued, polished, matte, roughed, knurled, inlayed, engraved or jeweled. Sometimes they rust if the metal is not protected.

Bolts and bolt handles are made all over the world. Any country that has produced rifles has made bolts and bolt handles. Only one continent, Antarctica, has never had a manufacturing facility that produced them. On automatic weapons and autoloaders, the cocking handle is another name for bolt handle. In some countries, they call them charging handles. Regardless, they stil attach to the bolt so that shooters can operate the bolt manually.

The Norwegian name for bolt handle is bolt håndtak. The Norwegians have also made them.