And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring.
... And this is where the ammunition goes
Which in our case we have not got.
(With apologies to Henry Read,
Naming of Parts, 1942)
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/naming-of-parts/
Last edited by MPN11; 9th Sep 2021 at 09:35.