When the bolt is pulled back the bolt stop engages the pin and the bolt continues back a short distance. Stronger system because there isn't a slot cut in the bolt face for an extractor on the action. This is a 416 Rigby and were made up to 600 Nitro Express. Never seen one in 404 Jeffery until now.
Byron Burgess did a lot of engraving for California Rigby, which used Reimer Johannsen and Dakota actions for magazine rifles. The one pictured belonged to vette47. The writeup is in Africa Hunting somewhere.
So if taking too much metal off the original collar is an issue then why don't they use the second barrels collar for the third and so on down the line?
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