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Marrakai
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Re: rising bite
      21/10/20 09:38 PM

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I would like to know if a Rigby rising bite can do that--hold the barrels closed.



transvaal:
There is no way a double gun with the Rigby-Bissell rising bite, sans under-bolt, could be opened without operating the top-lever. Its a real bite alright!

Not guaranteeing the rising bite alone could cope with the pressure of firing, but I strongly suspect it would. Same with most other third bites.

I do agree that the screw-grip is unquestionably the strongest, due in part to the Webley "A&W C" long-bar action that featured it, but cross-bolts can be built strongly too.

...and don't forget the Westley Richards C-bolt guns that were built without any under-bolting whatsoever. What we might regard today as a doll's head with third bite was in fact the first and only bite in that case!

Action strength is all relative anyway:
I have a Rigby rising-bite double, a Webley screw-grip .577, a bunch of cross-bolted doubles (mostly Greeners but a couple of Cashmores and a few others), a Jeffery double with third bite on the dolls-head, even a Dougal lock-fast. And plenty with nothing more than the Purdey under-bolt. They were all strong enough to pass proof and all still lock up tight today, in some cases more than a century later.

And that is simply marvellous!

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* rising bite ducmarc 13/10/20 12:35 PM
. * * Re: rising bite NitroXAdministrator   13/10/20 06:40 PM
. * * Re: rising bite ducmarc   15/10/20 11:30 AM
. * * Re: rising bite crshelton   19/10/20 11:16 AM
. * * Re: rising bite Marrakai   19/10/20 10:42 PM
. * * Re: rising bite transvaal   21/10/20 06:30 AM
. * * Re: rising bite Marrakai   21/10/20 09:38 PM
. * * Re: rising bite transvaal   22/10/20 04:50 AM
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