Have you ever had a rifle malfunction mess up a shot opportunity?

Whether a reliability issue with your hardware or a user-induced malfunction,

a jammed rifle can be catastrophic in the hunting field. Even best

case, a malfunction plants a seat of doubt and shakes our confidence going

forward.

In a worst case scenario, a malfunction can result in a lost opportunity

at a once in a lifetime buck or bull.

Or worst of all, the failure to stop a dangerous game animal that charges.

Now there are a lot of different causes of malfunctions and a lot of them are user induced. We're going to talk about that today and

more to the point of our primary topic. We're going to talk about action types and handling practices that minimize the potential for

malfunctions. We're also going to address bolt action types and how they influence

accuracy potential. There's a lot more factors

than most hunters realize including action flex and vibration, lock time,

cocking piece complexity complexity, and vibration and movement, how easy a action is to bed properly

into a stock, and more.

This of course is another installment in our springtime rifle setup and rifle building series.

Kind of an informal set of discussions where we're going to talk about

everything from cartridges and sculpts to, of course, rifle actions and how to

pick one that suits your needs most properly. First let's take a minute for our

up-front Q&A section brought to you this episode by Spartan Precision

Equipment, maker of my favorite six ounce mountaineering quality

bipods. This question is from a listener we'll call Brent via Patreon. He wrote

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