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Hmm...so a few years ago my grandpa gave me his Inland M1 carbine. Sometimes the bolt didn't want to go all the way forward to fully chamber a round,so recently I replaced the springs all the way 'round with Wolff springs. Everything was fine and dandy for a while, but tonight the extractor wasn't letting go of the spent brass. About every tenth round it would hold on to the shell and basically try to re-feed the old round back into the chamber,which would shove the new round back down out of the way,
I figured it's one of three things,I hope one of the M1 carbine gurus here can help me.
Bad extractor. Is it adjustable at all? And I did check,the claw was clean and shouldn't have been trapping the brass with gunk.
Bad ejector. Too short,maybe.
Weak ammo. I was using Magtech, maybe it doesn't have the oomph to plow the round back into the ejector with enough authority. I don't recall if I've used Magtech before or not,but I know Remington UMC jacketed soft-points have always worked for me.
I'm hoping for a quick and easy fix...I didn't really want to replace any parts on the gamble that they might fix it. Thanks in advance.
I figured it's one of three things,I hope one of the M1 carbine gurus here can help me.
Bad extractor. Is it adjustable at all? And I did check,the claw was clean and shouldn't have been trapping the brass with gunk.
Bad ejector. Too short,maybe.
Weak ammo. I was using Magtech, maybe it doesn't have the oomph to plow the round back into the ejector with enough authority. I don't recall if I've used Magtech before or not,but I know Remington UMC jacketed soft-points have always worked for me.
I'm hoping for a quick and easy fix...I didn't really want to replace any parts on the gamble that they might fix it. Thanks in advance.