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Thread: Bolt Carrier Group stuck - help please

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    Its hard to tell from the pic. Try and find out if the round is live or not: carefully slide a cleaning rod down the bore from the muzzle end until it won't go anymore, then mark that spot (masking tape or whatever) Then do the same thing on another rifle with an empty case in the chamber. If the cleaning rod measurement for your rifle is shorter than the one with empty brass, you have a live round. If you don't have access to another rifle, treat it as though its live. I would manually cock the hammer and set the safety, then reassemble. Fully collapse your stock, sit indian style on a firm surface, then keeping the muzzle in a safe direction, firmly grip the fore-end with your dominant hand and have your other hand pulling down on the CH. Give it one or two heavy, solid mortars and see if you get progress. It sounds scary, but you won't be able to shear the lugs with your own force.

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    Round was live. Wanted to check and make sure I couldn't do anything else before mortaring it. Rigged up a pull system with paracord around both sides of charging handle, put upper in vice, stood around corner just in case and pulled everything free with a fairly strong steady pressure. It scared the hell out of me because the primer went off. Not sure what caused that. Sadly, bolt carrier came out and I didn't stop it as well as I would have liked, put a ding in the carrier key so I'll have to replace that (No longer mates with gas tube correctly). Looking at the round, I can't really tell why it got stuck. The case head is a bit torn up where the extractor was, but I don't see how that would keep the bolt from turning? I will take pictures later, maybe someone else can give me an idea as to what caused this?

    Thank you.

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    Friends dont let friends shoot their reloads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tgace View Post
    Friends dont let friends shoot their reloads.
    Kind of makes me not want to bother to start reloading myself though. If it's so difficult to get right that you can't trust your friends' reloads, what makes me think I'm going to do any better?

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    Why do they make riggers jump with a parachute they packed?

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    stuck BCG, had it happen once, but there was enough space for me to use my gerber multi-tool slid it into the ejection port and 'pry the BCG back'. i dunno if that's a proper way to do it, but it worked. round was already spent.

    Quote Originally Posted by mizer67 View Post
    My guns have rarely seen any reload I didn't assemble myself, and that's all some of them have ever seen.

    Some reloads from a mfg. I've used and would trust are from these guys:

    http://www.atlantaarmsandammo.com/products.html

    BHA reman. I trust as well.

    I've never tried any GA "canned heat", but I've heard enough internet chatter (which may be true or false) that I'd rather shoot Hornady's steel case training ammo than GA reloads.
    -ive shot some atlanta arms 9mm luger. great stuff, will def have to check out their 5.56 loads. as for GA arms i can back you up on the "internet chatter" as i myself experienced issues with this ammo. i must have 5k rounds of their stuff before i ever had any problems, then sure as shit one day.. i have 2 squib rounds in one mag.
    after that, i didnt want to risk their stuff as i have heard stories of peoples rifles that have "blown up" with their FMJ canned heat. so naturally i steered away. now ive been shooting lake city m855 green tip. its been fabulous so far. now i just have to keep stocking up!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd.K View Post
    Why do they make riggers jump with a parachute they packed?
    To make sure they are doing it right.
    Last edited by 5pins; 11-23-10 at 23:50.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tmed View Post
    It happened to me and it wound up being that the Firing pin retaining pin broke and lodged between the Bolt Carrier and the rails of the upper. Took some Monkeying around but we finally diagnosed it.
    That happens when you put the pin in the wrong side. There is a recession in the BC for that reason. Seen many a rifles jammed up beacuse joe puts pin in the wrong side and decides that blunt force is the best way to seat the Carrier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lebowski View Post
    Kind of makes me not want to bother to start reloading myself though. If it's so difficult to get right that you can't trust your friends' reloads, what makes me think I'm going to do any better?
    It's just an old addage in the reloading community.

    Really just a quality control issue since you really don't know what you have, a safety issue since the load (probably) wasn't developed in your rifle and you shouldn't bet your life on reloads anyway.

    They're fine for training/practice.
    Last edited by LONGBOWAH; 11-24-10 at 11:53.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5pins View Post
    To make sure they are doing it right.
    I know I will be shooting my reloads and am arguable more careful then the guy loading for someone else, same as the guy packing chutes.

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