indy1919a4
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- Jan 7, 2011
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Wow, I did not know of this wonderful item before..
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/parallaxscurioandrelicfirearmsforums/walther-model-2-t41813.html
Looks like the Model 1 is not to shabby either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQsb1509CY
Wow! That is different. I also noticed it's Long or Long Rifle. No Shorts allowed.
Is no one else bothered by the fact Winchester has 2 model 55s out there.. With all the different numbers and letters in the world they had two different guns use the same model numbers..
Yeah, the lever action is what came up most often when I was looking for info on mine. I don't know what their thinking was on that.
No, it's a little hard to see in the pic, but it says 22 S L OR LR. In the spirit of I was gonna say something like "Shorts? You don't even need pants to shoot it!"
After cleaning my glasses, HEY there is an S there!! That makes more sense, all should work with single shot. I gotta say there is some cool factor, but a bolt works pretty good for a single shot.
It doesn't look any different with the bolt cocked back. The loading gate hides the inner workings. I know of at least two other people that were interested in it. One of them bid on GB, the other one just complained that I "stole" his rifle.
You know GB is going to hell.. I hate snowflake bidders who are babies.. "Ohhh I got outbid.. I am going to cry , you are a mean person.. mr winner"
So when you cock the bolt and are getting ready to load you must push the loading gate down at that time?? And then it snaps back when you remove your fingers..???
Yep, that's correct. It's spring-loaded. Basically works just like a loading gate on a lever action, except you're pushing the round into the chamber instead of the magazine. In fact, when it's not cocked, you can't push the loading gate down (since the bolt is in the forward position at that time).
At the last Indianapolis Gun & Rod Algonquin round Table meeting. The topic of the Model 55 came up. And it was claimed that each time you depress the loading gate to load a round the safety was reset on, Is that true?????
Well, it's not the depressing of the loading gate that sets the safety. The safety gets set when the bolt is pulled back manually or after firing. You can't depress the loading gate when the bolt is in the forward position (uncocked). Remember, it fires from an open bolt. If you dry fire it, you can't depress the loading gate, and the safety remains in the off position.
DD What the heck are you doing to me.. So I try to come off smart in front of the IGRART Vice President.. I tell him what you said about pulling back the bolt engages the Safety.. But I left your name out of it and try to sound like I know what I am doing, and he gives me a tongue lashing to beat the band.. The Bolt does not engage the safety. Yes you must pull back the bolt but that does not engage the safety. When you depress the loading ramp that automatically engages the safety.. Why not check this for me...
I guess there is a lesson about talking about something you just read off the internet, but I will be damned if I can put my finger on it.
Okay, I have my rifle out. Bolt is forward (uncocked). I can manually work the safety on and off. I cannot depress the loading gate, so it has no effect whatsoever on the safety. If I cock the bolt to the rear, the safety remains in the off position and depressing the loading gate does indeed set the safety to "on". So I was mistaken and Ignatz, or whomever you talked to is correct. Mea culpa. Did you ask Ignatz if there is an aftermarket "second safety" available for these rifles? I liked the one on my 1903 so much I thought I'd try and find one for this rifle too.
While technically incorrect, the end result is the same, because under normal circumstances, you wouldn't load it until you were ready to fire it, so one could argue that the bolt did indeed need to be activated (which allowed the loading gate to be enabled) to set the safety. I maintain that it is the actuation of the bolt that gets the whole ball rolling to set the safety to "on". It's like a Rube Goldberg kinda thing. I withdraw my culpa.You and those darn safeties...
Its IGRART not IGNATZ and its not a who it is a crack group of Firearms and Fishing experts in Indianapolis area.. And they do not tolerate mistakes. Oh Well let us know about the next gun you get, maybe I can wow them with those details.
While technically incorrect, the end result is the same, because under normal circumstances, you wouldn't load it until you were ready to fire it, so one could argue that the bolt did indeed need to be activated (which allowed the loading gate to be enabled) to set the safety. I maintain that it is the actuation of the bolt that gets the whole ball rolling to set the safety to "on". It's like a Rube Goldberg kinda thing. I withdraw my culpa.
Rumor has it that some handsome and charming devil just listed one in the classifieds.