Recocking the bolt is easy if you have a vise. Just clamp the lower part of the cocking piece in the vise and pull the bolt body forward turning it to the cocked position.
Unless there is some good reason to store the bolt out of the gun (bad or careless folks around, maybe in the family) I would just close the bolt with the trigger pulled to relieve spring tension and store the gun that way. I have seen a couple of guns where the owner stored the bolt or firing mechanism separate from the gun - and then forgot where he had put them!
Jim
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