Originally Posted By: Small Bore
Now, why you chaps seem often to refer to a 'receiver' when you mean 'action', I'm still a bit puzzled!


Not sure if it is 100% correct, but I have read that a bolt action, semi-automatic, and a lever action all have a receiver which receives the cartridges, and cycles them into the chamber. A double, on the other hand, has the shells inserted directly into the chambers by the shooter.

By this definition, a double would have an action without a receiver, while a Remington 870 would be a pump action with a receiver.

We run into the same sort of confusion when the terms forearm and forend are used interchangeably. Everyone knows what is meant, but they aren't the same animal.

Originally Posted by Geoff Roznak
The NRA has proven itself unreliable and corrupt. Period.