Talk:Rotating bolt

Which category?
'Firearm components' or 'Firearm actions'? I think 'Firearm actions' is suitable. This article is about 'method'. --shotgunlee 05:24, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

expansion
Perhaps some history of retating bolts is in due order? I would add it, but I am uneducated in this, at least not enough to start a stub... otherwise, this article should be deleted and all references should point to wiktionary... &mdash;Memotype:: T 14:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I.e. what weapon first used a rotating bolt, who invented it, etc... ya know, encyclopedia type stuff... &mdash;Memotype:: T 14:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Why Mannlicher ?
Rotating bolt is a method of locking originally developed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher and found in his Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 straight-pull bolt-action rifle designed for and issued to the Austro-Hungarian Army.

I can't understand one thing about this article. Almost any bolt action rifle uses rotation to lock the bolt. It seems to me that Mannlicher invented not the method of locking, which has been known for a long long time before him (e.g. Dreize needle rifle), but a particular type of it, that "straight-pull bolt action" the phrase above mentiones, which means that the shooter does not need to rotate the bolt manually because it is done by a screw mechanism in the bolt carrier. But the locking principle is just the same as in simple bolt action: the bolt rotates and by means of this locks in place befor firing. 95.79.204.72 (talk) 01:36, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Dreyse developed a rifle with rotating bolt many years before that, unless he meaning cam rotating bolt. But I add more on the rotating bolt in general and it's history.(Doktor Faustus (talk) 07:20, 5 December 2011 (UTC))

Suggesting merge into Action (firearms)
This page should be merged into Action (firearms) Digitallymade (talk) 12:14, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose, as for all these (and they should have been noted at Action (firearms) too). Andy Dingley (talk) 12:18, 3 March 2017 (UTC)