What!!!
I thought bolt timing was about ensuring that the bolt doesn't ROTATE upon dropping the firing pin. In short, it lays down dead while the firing pin travels past the cocking cam to the primer. I've got an M 77 that jumps like an electrocuted frog when the pin drops, it is NOT a tack driver. I can make it shoot, but only if I close the bolt short, exactly the right distance using a spacer. Then the bolt lays dead and does the job.
Another M77 lays dead and makes nice groups. But if I don't close the bolt fully, yep, it makes a mess on the target.
I'll check back on this. I hate being wrong.
