Friends Blaser

13 October 2021, 21:54

Pancho

Friends Blaser

A good friend of mine just got back from Zimbabwe. He reported that he did not get his elephant.
After many days of tracking and evaluating, he approached to approx 50 feet and heard the ominous "click". He had time to cycle the action 2 more times and all he got was two more "clicks".
Took the rifle back to camp and whatever was wrong with it had resolved itself and it fired just fiine. He's not much fan of his Blaser rifle anymore.

Pancho
LTC, USA, RET

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13 October 2021, 22:19

Biebs

Operator error....you can't short-stroke a Blaser. Do you think being in front of an Elephant may have had something to do with it? :-)

14 October 2021, 00:47

p dog shooter

quote:
Originally posted by Biebs:
Operator error....you can't short-stroke a Blaser. Do you think being in front of an Elephant may have had something to do with it? :-)

Sounds like buck fever to me.

14 October 2021, 02:40

crbutler

I don’t get that.

I dry fired, shot, and carried my DGR’s until I felt absolutely prepared with them.

Finding a good elephant is hard enough to add gun issues to it.

It also seems the Blaser has some idiosyncrasy to it that causes folks to have more trouble with it than other types of rifles.

Not sure why, but it’s definitely there.

By the way, Biebs you are misspelling it. The Blaser uses the “farce” not the force!

14 October 2021, 03:30

Michael Robinson

I have three Blasers and even if I try (and I have fooled around and tried) I can't make this happen with any of them. Never the slightest hiccup in the field.

14 October 2021, 04:35

Biebs

quote:
By the way, Biebs you are misspelling it. The Blaser uses the “farce” not the force!

Mr Crbutler tempts his fate!!!!

15 October 2021, 06:14

eny

Why didnt he just use the P Hs gun?

15 October 2021, 09:01

crbutler

Biebs, bring the Pug on...

I've got some marrow bones... I can bribe him!

30 October 2021, 07:02

chuck375

Friends don't let friends buy Blasers

Regards,

Chuck

"There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit"

Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness"

30 October 2021, 08:16

Saeed

Blasers are made for non thinking shooters.

Reminds me of all the "smart" things one can buy now!

Whoever invented the Blaser, has absolutely no clue what a rifle should be.

Mike,

I have had many Blasers through here, with some, you can easily have this problem.

What happens is the shooter just clicks the bolt back, and thumps it forward.

This can create two problems.

The bolt does not go back far enough to pick a new round, and sometimes, even if it does, the bolt does not lock!!

Creating a misfire.

I have one Blaser in our shooting range, and I tell everyone who comes to shoot it to make sure the bolt is fully closed forward, by pushing on it.