Bolt Actions: 101

Some have been concerned about the length of this episode. I just want to remind everyone that we had to keep it this short to make it accessible to new viewers. Sometimes you have to be concise over being complete.

"The numbers show people aren't really interested in bolt actions. Let's make a three-hour episode on bolt actions!" Bless you, guys. <3

How the hell did I get sucked into a 2 1/2 hours video at 2am CST?

I see you have finally made the jump from 2long4me to 3long5me.

After ten trillions episodes, let's approach the basics.

Eric and Chad look really weird in this table talk

>Not having Mae shoot guns at the hurricane SAD!

I was hoping for Mae duel welding Reichsrevolvers riding a t-Rex charging into the hurricane... I'm sad now.

Very interesting. Nice hearing Bruno's aspects. Would love to see Jay in an episode talking about the difficulty of creating the ammo you have to reproduce. Stay safe guys.

"We're just going to give you a brief bird's eye view." - Introduction to a two and a half hour long video. I love you guys. Keep on being the new History Channel, the one that actually presents history still.

Plebians: "These bolt actions are all the same!" Me: "Why must I ever be surrounded by philistines?"

As a Young Gunsmith I have to thank Mr. Bruno for spending time making the animation. I have used his animation to help me do my work. I really enjoyed the series and learned a'lot from all this. I learned alot from Othias, and watch Mae shot and got her prospective, and even watched Mark's gun- smithing projects under the anvil section or part. I wanted to thank you for a sucessfull year togther. and Thanks for being my internet friends. and most of all Merry Christmas and have a very nice sucessful new year!

I just want to say thanks to Bruno, May, Suzie, Jay, Mark, The Bearded Wonder, and everyone else behind the scenes, in front of the camera, and all those who loan weapons and generally make these beautiful educational things happen. I work in a field similar to much of what you guys have to do to get these videos done and I know that everything often feels like you're riding a burning train stocked with nitroglycerin trying to get it into the station without exploding but you all do a wonderful job of it and make one of the singularly best Youtube experiences around. So thank you.

Bruno: Thank You for all that you have done, and are doing for this Channel and with Mark.

I love the long videos. There is so much information packed in here and it just keeps going. They're basically like armorers courses in free YouTube form. It's very useful.

Othais and Bruno did a stellar job on Bolt 101. I’ve really learned a lot. I enjoyed how in depth the video takes us to the history of bolt action development. Kudos to you both. I missed seeing Mae put her opinions in. She is such an amazing person when discussing her experiences shooting the various arms.

> over two and a half hours long wow

Smokeless has a faster initial pressure rise than black powder. Black powder fouling control was well in place by the days of centre fire single shot military rifles and early machine guns (eg Maxim's) worked fine over thousands of rounds of black powder. Wax wads and paper patched. I grant it wouldn't work in gas operation systems. Even the end of the muzzle loaders such as the Enfield rifle musket with the British paper cartridges they would fire all day with no fouling obstacle. Smokeless however was, well, smokeless so you don't give away your position nor obscure your view of the enemy. Also it could give a higher performance with a flatter trajectory and smaller bore. At the very end of the black powder days they were beginning to understand and use solid black pellet charges with designed holes etc. through them to control the rate of burn and the rate of change of burn. This technology is what we see today in solid fuel rockets.

"The Disappearing Bullet" I read an article in a magazine in the late '60's or early '70's on the development of the Remmington 17 caliber varmit cartridge. the developers had honed the design into it's final specifications and were playing around with the powder load for the best performance. They started out with a low power charge and kept increasing it, each time the trajectory would flatten out a little more. Suddenly, for some unkonwn reason the bullet quit hitting the target at all! At this time high speed cameras were complicated and very expensive but to find out what was happening they obtained one and used it. What they saw was that as the powder charge increased the speed of the bullet increased until a point was reached where the dynamic pressures of the flight through the air caused the bullet to simply disintegrate in a puff of dust midway to the target!

"Say Vandelay!!!, Say Vandelay!!" Engagement?