Anybody else had this happen? I was sighting in my Russki refurb, and when I was feeding the ammo into the mag, it tripped the bolt hold-open. I then got several failure to fire. I put the thing away until I could get 'er home and stripped, cleaned, lubed, and prepped for my next time out. Now I hate loading live ammo in my home, but I fed several rounds into the mag, and it seemed to take them OK without tripping the bolt release, so maybe that was all it needed. In the past, I've made my own inert rounds by using a hand drill, or a very slow speed electric drill while using a water drip, and boring a hole in the case near the base and dumping the powder. Of course it leaves a live primer. If anyone has about 5 inert rounds they'd like to sell me, I'll take 'em. If I reloaded that cartridge, I'd make them up myself. Thanks in advance for any good input.
SKS malfunction & dummy rounds
- Thread starter LawrenceN
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Inert rounds
It has been done before, but CAREFULLY. If you do attempt this, you can put some penetrating oil into the hole to kill the primer. Still, it is something I can not recommend.
Find someone who reloads, and get him to make up a few dummy rounds for you is the better soulution.
In the SKS there is a small pin that the magazine follower lifts to hold the bolt open on the last shot, so you can reload. If there is a lot of grease on the pin, it will not come up fully. The other thing is that in opening the action, it was done too slowly, instead of yanking the bolt back, and the pin did not fully come up to catch the bolt. Also, a bobbled reload, where the bolt is moved back slightly, will release the pin and the action will close.
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It has been done before, but CAREFULLY. If you do attempt this, you can put some penetrating oil into the hole to kill the primer. Still, it is something I can not recommend.
Find someone who reloads, and get him to make up a few dummy rounds for you is the better soulution.
In the SKS there is a small pin that the magazine follower lifts to hold the bolt open on the last shot, so you can reload. If there is a lot of grease on the pin, it will not come up fully. The other thing is that in opening the action, it was done too slowly, instead of yanking the bolt back, and the pin did not fully come up to catch the bolt. Also, a bobbled reload, where the bolt is moved back slightly, will release the pin and the action will close.
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all you really need is someone that reloads 7.62x39- there SHOULD be plenty of those in toronto- then make up some"dummies" by using EXPENDED rounds and simply PRESSING the bullet in place- and remove the decapper when you're doing it-
To check the operation, I'd leave the magazine open, and try to drop the bolt (no ammo). The only way you should be able to do it with the mag open is to put a little downward pressure on the follower and release the bolt catch by pulling back on the charging handle.
While not a good idea to chamber, I keep a few spent 7.62 casings kicking around for the purpose of checking loading function.
While not a good idea to chamber, I keep a few spent 7.62 casings kicking around for the purpose of checking loading function.
