Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Tacticool bolt knobs why are they so big?

Went with a butter knife bolt on my last build. A nice trim rifle (6.5 x 55). Never really been one to worry much about rapid follow up shots, but I have been known to put a cartridge between my off hand fingers when using my single shots.

That’s right. And once you’ve done the scope and rings it just looks silly if you don’t do the rest of the receiver. A nice Luis Vuitton checkering pattern would’ve really finished it off right.


Edit: none of this banter occurs if that rifle doesn’t get posted as demonstration of something more practical than this model 7 for instance (because of the bolt knob?)

Tacticool?

Virtually any finish you can name on a walnut stock can be had with different levels of gloss.

If you go back and actually read what I wrote, that picture was merely to point out the TYPE OF BOLT HANDLE. The wood, engraving, etc was irrelevant and incidental to the bolt issue, that is why I posted two other pictures of a similar rifle. The "bling" as you mention has nothing to do with it. The fact I might like it and a lot here don't is again irrelevant.

Yes but the fact that you didn't strategically place a cigar and a glass of whiskey in the photo is significant, I think.

Remind me to place a tiparillo and a can of Miller Light when I post a rifle with a Tactitool bolt then. Oh yes, along with the manufacturer's logo (or skull and cross bones) on the stock and "Fueld by Hornady" sticker on the barrel. Thanks!

My kind of beer..


Beauty and practical:

Nothing quite like a metal buttplate for practicality.

I suppose the buttplate would be practical if you took it off and used it for scraping hides.

Metal buttplates and muzzle brakes ought to be outlawed.

Yeah, he went 1 out of 2 on the butts.

On the "offending butt", right from Mr. Selby: “In my opinion you have not only an exceptionally beautiful rifle there but an entirely practical one as well. In my fifty five years of professional hunting my respect for the .375 H&H cartridge has increased each time I saw it used. In my opinion the greatest cartridge ever developed. I would prefer to see a visiting hunter arrive for his safari with such a rifle than with a double of any caliber. Good luck on your hunt.”.

link (last post at the bottom of page two): Selby's comments

Harry Selby.

What you doing sittin here.........get your booty out there and make me sum muuney ! !

GRIN

Jerry

I have said it before, and with my relatively paltry experience in the big game fields of the world, the 375 H&H struck me as the laws of physics coming together in an equisite compromise of efficiency for from small game to very large game.

This...^^^

Of course there are a lot of "hunters" who seem to more concerned about how something looks, rather than how it functions....

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The bolt handles on every one of my conventional bolt-action sporters have functioned properly 100% of the time...and looked good while doing it. Life's too short to hunt with an ugly rifle.

This. I didn't appreciate the one on my Savage 10-PC until I started shooting prone with it. I like to run the bolt while I still have a cheek-weld and a sight picture. The large handle sure makes it easier.

Ed

Alright listen up- the 3 on the tree works freaking fine- so all you son of bitchers driving a 4 in the floor or god forbid a 5 Spd or an automatic need to put side those Mario Andretti fantasisies, accept your tiny talleywhackerrs and grow up

I’ll tell you what- while we are on the subject, what’s up with all you over compensating clowns using bolt action repeaters? About time some folks learned a little marksmanship and maybe quit creaming there pants about having a follow up shot and how they’ll use it.

Hey!! Hey buddy- take that godawful freaking “wheel” and hit the road. We like things nice and square around here. Been working really well that way for a long time now

I even kill stuff shooting obsolete cartridges like .264 Win Mag and .280 Remington. I guess the animals around here are too stupid to realize I'm not shooting a 6.5 Creedmoor and my bullets are all low on the BC totem pole. They'd all die a second time of outright embarrassment if they saw the 20th century looks of all my rifles.

Or some of us have figured out how to have both. But yes, life is too short to hunt with a fugly rifle..