IOINC AKM slamfire?

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Aks do not have a firing pin spring. Sometimes the pin sticks in the bolt. Try cleaning the inside of the bolt & the pin. Look for burrs or rough machining. Mill Marks create a lot of friction, causing the pin to stay foreward.
 
When US commercial 7.62X39 first became available back in the late '80s, there were issues with soft commercial primers resulting in slamfires.

For that matter, there were early Mini-30s with broken firing pins from hard, Chinese military primers.....

Pretty sure the commercial ammo manufacturers all use hard primers for their 7.62X39 now, but Coronapocalypse demand may have led to lowered safety margins or mistakes. I wouldnt be shocked if even the Russian and European makers may have a soft batch or two.

If your firing pin channel isnt gummed up or binding, odds are you just had a lot of soft primers sneak through. Worst case, its possible to add a firing pin spring to some AK bolts, or even use a low-mass titanium pin.
 
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Ive never even thought of reloading it, lol. Not many folks do since its so cheap. I stocked deep on it years ago, and still havent really dented my supply of factory Tula.
Ive also never had a slamfire with Russian fodder in any of my AKs or SKS......

But Im sure we have members that actually HAVE reloaded 7.62x39.

Probably want to post that question in the reloading sub. :thumbup:
 
Akula69 said:
I've had no slam fires since using the CCI #34 primers.
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I'm reading that as you implying you have experienced slamfires *prior* to switching to the #34. If that is the case, I would be interested in hearing about which primers proved problematic in the AK platform.
 
The two slam fires I experienced were with 'Red Standard' purchased ammunition, both from the same box. I had just broken down and cleaned the SKS before the range session.

And for the record, I went back and read the OP message in reference to a particular weapon platform (the IOINC AKM 7.62x39) ....and I experienced mine in a regular SKS not that AKM.
 
The M16 also has a loose firing pin, and extracting unfired cartridges will sometimes show a slight dent. Milspec ammo with hard primers aren't an issue. However, civilian ammo, or loads using soft primers have been noted to cause the problem. One alternative cartridge I looked into for a build was noted by fans to be suceptible to slam fire if you hand chamber a round thru the ejection port, then release the bolt allowing it to move forward without the friction of stripping a cartridge and chambering it. That was enough to energize the firing pin with enough force to set the primer off.

Military self loading actions are often designed for use with hard primer ammo as a working component, our DOD only offers a few loads for official use. Hard primer required. Since the AKM is using a floating firing pin I expect that would be part of the package, too. Its not US or Russian, it's Engineering vs Liability, albeit America has an overblown case of it. LIke, self retracting blades on box knives, or me buying a watertight laptop case and keeping it away from my wife's travel cup.

That was a long vacation with no internet. I had to learn what 1985 was like again.
 
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