briansmithwins
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Hard to believe it extracted with damage like that!
That lot is toast. Pull a few and see if the powder is breaking don in some of them.
Could of been load a little too hot by accident. And you discover it when you fired it.
Yugo M67 with 1976 headstamp, fired from vz58. Got a face full of smoke but no debris. Rifle looks ok and I'll check headspace before I shoot it again.
I had another case separation last summer from the same lot, also in the vz58. Needless to say I won't be shooting anymore of that lot.
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I have seen separations with x 39 from AK's, RPD's, RPK's, etc. using surplus euro and chinese ammo- always just forward of the rim. Not uncommon, but not epidemic. Never seen one like that, though.
In most cases I would agree with you, but I have seen this happen with fairly new AK's in good condition. The x factor was generally the ammo. That being said, ammo was generally on the old side, and not stored under optimum conditions (war zones in the mideast).Case head separations are a pretty good indication of excess headspace. Once your headspace has opened up that much the problem will continue until the headspace is corrected.
Since mine is a split through the rim that had hundreds of rounds between separations I’m going with the idea of a flaw in the case, perhaps made worse with by the age of the ammo.
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