Domino
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Bear with me a bit.
My dad gave me his old Hakim a couple of months ago, and I was eager to accept. The only problem was that it would not extract brass cased ammunition worth a darn. He had unwitingly fired a couple hundred rounds of "tester" ammunition through the Hakim. Only after firing his Yugo mauser with this "tester" ammuntion did he realize the extreme pressures that these rounds generated; he told me that he had to use a hammer to operate the bolt to eject the first round of this ammuntion that he fired in his mauser. Thing was, that he did not notice this in the semi-auto Hakim. It was after this time that the Hakim had started causing him problems.
So the first time I take this Hakim to the range (probably had been about 7 or 8 years since it had been fired) I tried various factory 8mm, Hansen and S&B as well as some mild soft-point reloads my dad had loaded for his mauser.
It would NOT extract many of these cases and we noticed excessive bulging of the fired cases. We came to the conclusion that this rifle probably had a headspace problem due to the hammering of the "tester" or machine gun ammunition that he had shot in the rifle years before.
Well, I really liked the rifle; the trigger was great, the sights were very easy to use, and it seemed quite accurate dispite malfunctions so I did not want to give up on it just yet.
I found a really great deal on some 1978' era Romanian steel core, steel cased, non-corrosive 170 something grain FMJ ammuniton, so i bought about 600 rounds. I took the rifle out today with my new gas port tool and used the proper method of testing new ammunition with the Hakim; by closing the gas port and slowly working your way up until the rifle cycled properly.
Turns out this stuff works GREAT! Absolutely NO extraction failures OR case bulging! The only malfunction I had was the occasional premature bolt hold open or failure for the bolt to hold open (probably magazine related?) but that was it. This stuff shot around 1 MOA as well as straight through a 14" tree.
What may be the problem with this rifle??
AND
Where can I get New production Steel case 8mm?
My dad gave me his old Hakim a couple of months ago, and I was eager to accept. The only problem was that it would not extract brass cased ammunition worth a darn. He had unwitingly fired a couple hundred rounds of "tester" ammunition through the Hakim. Only after firing his Yugo mauser with this "tester" ammuntion did he realize the extreme pressures that these rounds generated; he told me that he had to use a hammer to operate the bolt to eject the first round of this ammuntion that he fired in his mauser. Thing was, that he did not notice this in the semi-auto Hakim. It was after this time that the Hakim had started causing him problems.
So the first time I take this Hakim to the range (probably had been about 7 or 8 years since it had been fired) I tried various factory 8mm, Hansen and S&B as well as some mild soft-point reloads my dad had loaded for his mauser.
It would NOT extract many of these cases and we noticed excessive bulging of the fired cases. We came to the conclusion that this rifle probably had a headspace problem due to the hammering of the "tester" or machine gun ammunition that he had shot in the rifle years before.
Well, I really liked the rifle; the trigger was great, the sights were very easy to use, and it seemed quite accurate dispite malfunctions so I did not want to give up on it just yet.
I found a really great deal on some 1978' era Romanian steel core, steel cased, non-corrosive 170 something grain FMJ ammuniton, so i bought about 600 rounds. I took the rifle out today with my new gas port tool and used the proper method of testing new ammunition with the Hakim; by closing the gas port and slowly working your way up until the rifle cycled properly.
Turns out this stuff works GREAT! Absolutely NO extraction failures OR case bulging! The only malfunction I had was the occasional premature bolt hold open or failure for the bolt to hold open (probably magazine related?) but that was it. This stuff shot around 1 MOA as well as straight through a 14" tree.
What may be the problem with this rifle??
AND
Where can I get New production Steel case 8mm?
