Why do Americans always use the palm of their hand to operate the bolt ?

I thought it was also a British tradition. In the 1950s & 60s my dad had a 10.75X68 rifle & as a kid I use to watch him clean it. He always worked the bolt with the palm pointed up and the bolt knob resting the heel of his palm. His hand would close on the bolt knob as he pushed the bolt forward and down.

(Why do Americans always use the palm of their hand to operate the bolt ?)

By the way tankhunter, I'm Canadian.

Maurice

Maurice,

I reference to some issues I'm having with my rifle, have you done this exercise with the scope on? DO you get rounds bouncing off the bottom of the scope?
I too can easily make my 375 fail to eject by limpwristing it. In point of fact I was messing with mine today without the scope and slowly pulled the bolt back and the round jumped straight up, flipped and fell back onto the magazine backwards...It seems on my rifle the last round wants to eject more 'up' that 'out'. Can't tell on the video if your RUM does the same.

Hello Baxter,

No problem regarding the ejection with the scope on. Now I never tried ejecting the cases at full speed with the scope on... I guess another video is on request lol

I have found that there is a 'sweet spot' where the rifle ejects fine, but too fast or slow and not so good. I have to get some other work done on this rifle but it drives me nuts not to try to figure out what is going on anyway. What else do gun guys do but sit around and try to break things!?

oops sorry Enigma

No harm done tankhunter.

I guess I'm a North American