Went out to the range this morning (walked across the front yard, lol) to do some shooting with my daughter's boyfriend. He has a recently built AR in 9mm that he wanted to put some more rounds through.
After seven rounds, he had a failure to eject issue. Upon closer inspection, we saw that a case had separated just ahead of the case head. The front half of the case was stuck in the chamber. Tried running a rod down from the muzzle but it wouldn't catch the case mouth. (Didn't think that it would)
Ended up grinding a very acute angled point on the tail of a chainsaw file. Smoothed everything out really well and tapped it in between the case and chamber from the breech end. After it separated from the chamber wall a tick, I was able to knock it free with the rod from the muzzle end.
My first thought was a 7.62 broken case extractor that I have somewhere from my old Infantry days with the M60 machine gun but I couldn't put my hands on it, this morning.
I am thinking that this would be a real bad situation, in a fire fight.
Don't know too many people that carry a broken she'll extractor for the weapon they have on them.
After seven rounds, he had a failure to eject issue. Upon closer inspection, we saw that a case had separated just ahead of the case head. The front half of the case was stuck in the chamber. Tried running a rod down from the muzzle but it wouldn't catch the case mouth. (Didn't think that it would)
Ended up grinding a very acute angled point on the tail of a chainsaw file. Smoothed everything out really well and tapped it in between the case and chamber from the breech end. After it separated from the chamber wall a tick, I was able to knock it free with the rod from the muzzle end.
My first thought was a 7.62 broken case extractor that I have somewhere from my old Infantry days with the M60 machine gun but I couldn't put my hands on it, this morning.
I am thinking that this would be a real bad situation, in a fire fight.
Don't know too many people that carry a broken she'll extractor for the weapon they have on them.