Post Your Guns

[pegs]

exactly, I'd love to fire a proper tommy gun or an ak or something. could probably get hold of a shotty round by mine to be fair haha

[Garrett.]

Been looking for a nice LeD tac light for my mossberg 590 tactical, suggestions?

[Cat Daddy]

Surefire forend?

[Garrett.]

Anyone have a walther pps 9 theyre looking to get rid of?

[DBZ138]

8===3

[beerzerker]

That picture is fucking awesome.

[William]

My Mosin-Nagant is acting up. I am really good about cleaning it every time I shoot, but today I only put two rounds through it and the bolt became completely stuck. When empty, the bolt seems to move smoothly, but when I want to eject the round I end up breaking every bone in my hand trying to open the damned thing. The casings are all cracked and split when ejected as well, is that the ammunition I'm using or is that my gun's fault?

Any tips on how I can make this smoother? I know that Mosins tend to get gummed up with all that corrosive primer, but I thought that regular cleaning would solve the problem.

[el ocho]

My Mosin-Nagant is acting up. I am really good about cleaning it every time I shoot, but today I only put two rounds through it and the bolt became completely stuck. When empty, the bolt seems to move smoothly, but when I want to eject the round I end up breaking every bone in my hand trying to open the damned thing. The casings are all cracked and split when ejected as well, is that the ammunition I'm using or is that my gun's fault?

Any tips on how I can make this smoother? I know that Mosins tend to get gummed up with all that corrosive primer, but I thought that regular cleaning would solve the problem.

That sounds a bit like you got some over pressured rounds. That can cause the brass to crack and lead to bolt getting stuck. Usually the primer will back out of the pocket when they get too hot. Are they military surplus or handloads? Either that or it was a x51 instead of x54, which would cause nasty overpressure too.

[William]

That sounds a bit like you got some over pressured rounds. That can cause the brass to crack and lead to bolt getting stuck. Usually the primer will back out of the pocket when they get too hot. Are they military surplus or handloads? Either that or it was a x51 instead of x54, which would cause nasty overpressure too.

They were labeled as 7.62x54r and they seem to be the same size, but they did look a little different than my normal rounds. I usually use rounds from my spam can of 440 rounds. This time I used a new pack of 20 "Russian Surplus" that I bought from a gun shop in Utah when I went to visit my brother last weekend.

The round on the left is the one I normally shoot. The one on the right is what I shot today when the bolt got stuck:
EDIT:

Changed the image to make it clearer

[el ocho]

Does is seem like the newer round is longer? From your picture it almost looks like the shoulder lengths are different, which would cause the round to seat differently in the chamber. That can cause the overpressure problems since the bullet would be seating further back in the chamber from the way that shoulder looks to my internet micrometer eye.

[William]

EDIT: Changed the photo because the last one I took was shitty. The new round is on the right, the one on the left is what I normally shoot.

[el ocho]

Whoops, you're right. I was comparing the two as if the new one was on the right. Goes to show how the Soviet Union packaged their rounds. Could just be brittle brass or an overcharge of powder as well. If your Mosin shoots the bulk pack just fine it doesn't seem like it should be an issue of headspacing.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Shoulder demensions look off i have the same problems on my mosins, its not easy to find 7.62x54 but 7.62 39 is plentiful, the 54r is hit and miss and from various supliers and regions canada sucks for ammo but svt40's are plentiful and cheap.

[Birdmane]

The left round is spam can x54r, the right one is romanian.  

The split neck rounds were PROBABLY split before you shot them and you did now know it.  

Take apart the bolt completely, clean it.  Check the primer depth on all your rounds and check for splits/cracks, even tiny one, in the neck near the crimp.

[yacqueli]

Man, Americans are paranoid. Just move to a nice neighborhood.

im not paranoid.... i own guns..