Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!jkh From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns Subject: Submission for mod-rec-guns Message-ID: <1546@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 19:35:38 EST Article-I.D.: jade.1546 Posted: Wed Oct 29 19:35:38 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 31-Oct-86 02:02:39 EST Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 43 Approved: jkh@ucbjade Author: Alan Geist Responding-System: shark.TEK.COM Article: 10:50 Path: shark!alang From: alang@shark.TEK.COM (Alan Geist) Subject: Re: Who would steal a bolt? Message-ID: <1975@shark.TEK.COM> Date: 27 Oct 86 21:38:35 GMT References: <1463@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: alang@shark.UUCP (Alan Geist) Lines: 33 In article <1463@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> jkh@jade.UUCP writes: >Article: 10:33 > >The point that I wanted to make is that someone could >break into your car and take your gun parts or steal your >car. Then what do you do with your guns? > >Also, cars do not provide a very hospitable >climate for steel parts, especially in the winter. >(This doesn't apply if you live in the Mojave >Desert.) > >Jon Kaplowitz >ihnp4!erc3ba!jfka Another reason not to do this with bolts or some other action related parts is that a removed bolt, without exception (that I've ever seen), has the hammer back, and thus the spring is compressed. After long term storage in this manner, the spring can so weaken as to partially or completely prevent firing of the weapon. I have seen this happen on a number of occasions. For this reason, actions, in or out of the gun, should always be stored with the hammer forward, and the spring relaxed. You wouldn't believe the embarrasment associated with raising a gun at a bird or game and only hearing a slight click. It could be much more than embarrassing if the gun were needed for self defense. Alan Geist tektronix!shark!alang The Doctor: "I'm dangerous when I don't know what I'm doing!"