Sticky Bolt

[Sneaky]

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[robodad]

Try using a spent cartrige, or a buddy to load or not load live rounds for you !!!

[lazydrifter]

1st off I would check your action screws.  Those are the ones that hold the stock to the rifle.  If those are over torqued it can cause a bind making it hard to cycle your bolt.  I've seen some rifles where the safety won't engage unless the bolt is cocked.

[MikeWalking]

I can't remember the name brand but Cabela's sells dummy rounds for just this purpose.  I bought some for my 1895 not just for dry fire but also to practice rapid lever work.

[addicted]

have you scraped/scrubbed out the reciever with a wire bore brush in the last few hundred rounds. Maybe there is some build up .

for the flinch thing..... you could always find a cheap 22.lr rifle from a pawn shop and shoot it till the cows come home.

[Huntbear]

Remingtons and most bolt rifles will not return to safe, until or unless it is cocked.  In other words, after you fire/dry fire your weapon, unless you cycle the bolt, and cock it again, the safety will not work.  This is because the sear needs to be engaged before the safety works.

As for the flinching, go back to a .22 and shoot hundreds of not thousands of rounds, till the flinch disappears, then slowly work  your way back up to the 06, with as many small calibers as you can get your hands on to shoot.

[madmack76]

i allways heard it was bad to dry fire a bolt-action rifle, might break the firing pin?

[JoshT]

i allways heard it was bad to dry fire a bolt-action rifle, might break the firing pin?

You heard wrong...

[madmack76]

cool

[bobcat]

I don't think there's anything wrong with it. The bolt is probably a little harder to lift because you are cocking the gun as you operate the bolt.

[Alchase]

i allways heard it was bad to dry fire a bolt-action rifle, might break the firing pin?

You heard wrong...

That is what Snap Caps are made for.
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Too much lube can also cause a sticking action. I would clean everything thouroughly first.

[JoshT]

Snap-caps were made by someone who wanted to start a rumor and capitolize on it... I've dryfired many, many rifles... thousands of times to no ill effect.

[deaddog]

Snap-caps were made by someone who wanted to start a rumor and capitolize on it... I've dryfired many, many rifles... thousands of times to no ill effect.

+1 but Im unsure about 2 piece firing pins, how about you JoshT?

[JoshT]

The only guns I've ever seen have problems from dry firing... are revolvers and rimfires... I suppose Snap-Caps would be a good thing in those. I've also seen guys fill the primer pocket on a couple pieces of brass with some hard rubber... kind of a poor man's smap-cap.

I dry fire one or more of my rifles at least 20 times a week... Been doing that for over 20 years now... and I don't rightly recall missing too many weeks on that... for a long time it was daily. At 20x's a week... for 20 or so years... that's around 20,000 dry fires (not on the same rifle of course... who keeps a rifle that long?)... without a hick-up.

[Jamieb]

Dry firing wont hurt your rifle at all. A 710 cocks on opening the bolt, that's why it opens harder after after you dry fire it and the safety wont engage until its been re cocked. As far as getting rid of a flinch, I've found a CF .22 to work better for me then a RF .22. Any rifle that doestn kick but is still loud.