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Originally Posted by Tomahawk202
The M430 round has a mechanical gear system in the fuze. Slamming the nose of the fuze into the Ogive Plunger once, to load the round, is ok. But to do it more than once is asking for trouble.
Open the feedtray cover. Take linkless, previously fed round in your left hand.
Drop the right handle and slide the bolt to the rear just a little ( about an inch )
While holding the bolt to the rear, take the round and slide the rim of the cartridge under the left lips on the boltface.
Now snap the round to the right, placing the right side of the rim, under the right feedlips on the boltface with the other hand.
Boom.... there you go. Load the belt of rounds, and charge the weapon.
Tomahawk sends..............
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I can see how that could be a danger if you pulled the bolt all the way to the rear and pulled the trigger and let the bolt fly like most people do. Guess I never thought of anyone doing that. I always just rode the bolt forward untill it made contact with the rear of the round then let the weight of the bolt press the lips onto the rim. Now placeing the round on by hand maybe the way to go or you could also make a spacer tool that has the right distance the bolt has to be inorder to do that so you dont have to hold the charging handle back with one hand then place the round on the bolt face.