G'Day Fella's,

Sorry Bramble, I was of the opinion that this was primarily a Hunting and Sport Shooting Forum and not a Military and Police related one?
Also I was just generalizing when I made the comment about "To Much Reading and not enough Personal Experience", but you have assumed I was directing this comment at You! Nuff Said!!!

I cant see the relevance of problems arising in tight tolerance (yes some Mil Spec firearm internals are and have to be), military firearms has to this forum!

But seeing that we are here, might I suggest Heckler and Koch contact Mauser (they probably own them after all! No, that's right, it's Blaser) and order a shipment of 1898 Mauser (or even some Remington 700) bolt action rifles in say 7x57 Mauser!
These rifles are well proven to reliably operate, in the harshest of conditions!
And in fact, most of my hunting has been done with rifles with a Teeny Weeny Little Extractor that Cant be Any Good and Must Fail but none of these Remington 600's and 700's have ever given me the slightest problem!
If not, my only other suggestion would be Point #4 from H&K, "A Dust Cover" similar to the type issued to GI's at the "D Day" Landings way back in the mid 1940's or could I be so bold as to mention that "Common Sense, is No Longer Common"!!!

I just checked out some Pubic Hair and I would estimate that it would be about 0.006" in diameter so going on your CRUDE (and unnecessary) estimation, I would have to agree that 2/3's of that would be 0.004" and that is indeed within the acceptable tolerance range of head space for most hunting rifles!

I have no interest in going hunting in Afghanistan or any other stan for that matter but if I wanted to hunt say "Mid-Asian Ibex" in Tajikistan, I would probably be carrying a Rem 700 in some caliber, with a 2 1/2 lb trigger with greAsed (maybe even Molybdenum Disulphide greAse, if that was all that was available), locking lugs and be perfectly confident that I wouldn't have any problems!!!

As to GIN, Tinker it may be fine as a flushing solvent, but I personally find it to be far to much of a Depressant, when consumed as a beverage!

Merry Christmas
from
Hommer