bolt action
A type of gun mechanism by which the shooter has to manually cycle the action to chamber a new round for each time they need to shoot, by directly moving the bolt via a bolt handle (also known as a cocking handle). The earliest example of bolt-action gun that is fielded by an military is the Prussian Dreyse needle gun
Most bolt action weapons are rifles. The Welrod is an example of a bolt action pistol.
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- AI Arctic Warfare
- Arisaka
- Blaser R93
- Cheytac M200
- Lee-enfield
- Mauser 98
- Mosin-Nagant
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- Remington MSR
- Welrod
See also
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