What mine went through wasn't nearly as rough as that sounds, but it was back in working order in about 30 minutes of being brought inside. Thanks for the info!A couple buddies who didn’t have action covers froze their tikkas on a hunt this year. Hard rain and dust prior to freezing too. Both of their bolts were frozen shut at the end of the day. Spent a couple hours next to the stove. The one that got shot on animals went boom just fine.
We are lucky to have some shit weather here, Iv had my tikka out in -20 f with no issues. Not form but I figured I’d throw in my experience.
While I didn't leave it out overnight, I don't think it had any real chance the way I did it. I poured about 12-16 ounces on the action, and then about 8 ounces more just into the trigger. Then left it on its side, bolt handle up, in snow just long enough for all the water to freeze. Do you know if anyone's ever documented a head to head bolt action rifle reliability test that's publicly available? I've tried finding the Canadian ranger test with no luck.With enough frozen water, they all will stop guns at some point.
However: below 20°, 8oz of water poured all over and in the action and trigger, whole thing dropped in snow, then stood up over night. This isn’t supposed to be representative of anything, except maybe the worst case- it’s meant to show differences between actions and triggers.