JohnUK
Has described what I'm thinking about. Higher and lower effort at different places in the cocking cycle.
The most difficult cocking effort I've seen described was an early Baikal, that galled surfaces because of poor fitting.
I designed steering column pieces back when they weren't cable shifters. C/K trucks, Dodge, John Deere, etc. If there was a column shift with tilt wheel, I was in it at the component level. What you felt, how hard it shifted, where in the swing every gear was chosen, was designed in. We worked hard to take grittiness out of Cadillac column shifts. We knew our connection to the driver was through the shifter.
The cocking of a shotgun with dropping barrels is similar in most respects. Though the mechanisms are much older.
It is often said development stopped long ago, having reached perfection... blah, blah, blah,... I disagree.
I believe there is room for further refinement in the cocking cycle of shotguns.
Whomever added the little rollers probably had a job like mine.
So where's this go? In cars, Toyota found a way to push a cable.
In shotguns? Well, I think no matter the scale of the action, there is the possibility of even effort from open to close, and no transference of grittiness.
Because the leverage changes at different angles, shapes of mating parts would have to change at different spots, all while making sure cocking distance was maintained.
Does anyone think we could specify cocking effort at an elite maker?
I wish I could steal SDH's action pictures for this thread.
