My Vudoo feeds straight into the chamber. Every Vudoo does. None are at an angle.
They start off at an angle is what I am saying! Here is your proof. The picture is from their website, I got as close as I could using the editor on my phone.
Here are the best videos I could find showing the vudoo picking up the cartridge.
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=315398785630606&_rdr
The round is at an angle in the magazine, which is exactly what I said in my earlier post and is just like my tikka and anschutz 54 repeater.
Because the round sits at an angle in the magazine, the projectile has to make contact with the chamber somewhere to straighten out. At 1:36 in the YouTube video, the cartridge does
exactly the same thing as my anschutz. It needs to make contact at the front so it can pivot around the front to swing the rim of the cartridge below the extractor hooks.
On my tikka, as the bolt is pushing the round out of the magazine, the projectile makes contact with the top of the inside of chamber and then pops up and goes straight into the chamber. That is what I am seeing in the vudoo videos and what I see in the in my anschutz. To me, nothing revolutionary in the vudoo but maybe it is not in those videos.
I wasn't paying attention to where the rim goes in front or under the extractors.
I am not for nor against either rifle. The courts will decide the patent because they will have all the facts money can buy. Too many crazy patents out there for me to blindly side with vudoo when they are the only ones saying anything to the public and have a vested interest in showing facts that support their cause only; which is what I would be doing as well if I was in their shoes.
They won the social media war already. Even if the courts decide the patents shouldn't have been granted because of prior work, many people wont see it that way and the popular narrative will see be: big Bergara with lots of $ picking on the little custom builder.
