Quote Originally Posted by secretagentmole View Post
Daystates are renown for eating pellets, they fall out of the back of the magazine when the probe is fully withdrawn, fall in the mechanism and at some point will stop the gun cocking, in the meantime you get a dry fire which is much louder and no kill....
Actually, yes, after clambering through undergrowth I seem to remember the bolt sliding backwards. Having said that, I would have thought the pellet, once engaged in the barrel would stay there?