EricTheBarbarian
Member
Well, there I was at the range today, giving my old m44 a workout. The barrel was getting warm, but wasn't too hot. Last round out of a set of 5, felt a little different and sounded a bit different. I went to cycle the bolt and it was locked solid. After trying to get it to budge and beating on the handle with a hammer I finally gave up.
So when i got home, about 10 minutes of a 2x4 and hammer i finally got the bolt open. I used a cleaning rod to get out the spent casing, and what I found was a mangled base on the casing and the primer was blown out of it.
Ive shot close to 1000 rounds out of this gun with not even as much as a misfire, then this. What kind of a problem do I have here, rifle or ammo? I hope this isn't some of that booby trapped ammo I read about in the other thread, but I don't know, so I figured Id ask the experts at THR.
ammo: 1952 bulgarian heavy ball
rifle: 1944 mosin nagant m44
any help would be appreciated, thanks.
So when i got home, about 10 minutes of a 2x4 and hammer i finally got the bolt open. I used a cleaning rod to get out the spent casing, and what I found was a mangled base on the casing and the primer was blown out of it.
Ive shot close to 1000 rounds out of this gun with not even as much as a misfire, then this. What kind of a problem do I have here, rifle or ammo? I hope this isn't some of that booby trapped ammo I read about in the other thread, but I don't know, so I figured Id ask the experts at THR.
ammo: 1952 bulgarian heavy ball
rifle: 1944 mosin nagant m44
any help would be appreciated, thanks.