Timeline for Why are pump action rifles so uncommon compared to bolt-action rifles?
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| Jan 25, 2019 at 15:08 | comment | added | Hawker65 | I have heard that the Ross Rifle was not adopted as a standard rifle because it was more susceptible to mud and general trench conditions than a standard bolt-action. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 17:25 | comment | added | K7AAY | The lack of development of the straight-through action is perplexing. The K31 has been described as very reliable, as well as much faster than turning bolts. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 14:39 | comment | added | Hawker65 | True, but you still need to take a hand off your weapon to operate the action, reducing your rate of fire, and straight-pull bolts tend to be less reliable than classic bolt-actions. | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 19:13 | comment | added | K7AAY | Then, there's the Swiss K31 thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/05/daniel-zimmerman/… fieldandstream.com/swiss-k31 and the Mannlicher M1893 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Mannlicher_M1893_Carbine with straight-pull bolt actions which is also a simple action, which is why I favor those bolt-action rifles. | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 19:07 | history | edited | K7AAY | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2018 at 18:25 | comment | added | Hawker65 | Good point. However, pump action being a simple action, you get an increased rate of fire. This increase in rate of fire would compensate the time you potentially lost reacquiring the target. In addition, this deviation could probably be greatly reduced with training. Anyway, I did not think about this factor which is indeed more crucial for manual action rifles because of the greater need of accuracy compared to shotguns. | |
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| Dec 27, 2018 at 6:04 | history | answered | K7AAY | CC BY-SA 4.0 |