Very lucky it was not worse. SOCOM II

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Here is what happened to a friend of mine's SOCOM II Sunday :(

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Not being a Black rifle follower myself, opinions on this failure would be appreciated, too hot of a load I'm guessing? I am to understand this failure happened 1/2 way through the first mag? I have no more details on the incident then that.

FYI it is a 308 cal & other then some scrapped knuckles, the shooter is OK.
 
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Before anyone else gets to it...

"That will buff right out.."

And, sorry to see that. I love the M1A platform, glad to see it didn't take away any part of his hands.
 
Inadequate crimp, overcharge, any one of a thousand relatively small things that can happen in factory ammo as well as reloads. Give Larry a PM (Lazerus2000) he's a gold mine of M14 info, he's built tons of them and seen bad things happen to good rifles. Glad your buddy's OK, but thats a sad thing to have happen to an expensive rifle.
 
I'd probably need a new pair of ginch if that happened to me. It's like a bad car wreck, I just can't look away. And a pretty expensive rifle for that to happen to.
 
Thought that was only happening with norinco stinkos -
Not $2000 Springfields !

Hmmmmm ------ seems to me that its only happened to Springfields -:p

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Hmmmmm ------ seems to me that its only happened to Springfields -:p
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Selective memory or a broken search function will do that to you... :p

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=326189&highlight=catastrophic

I think Savage examined another one back here:

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=327939&highlight=catastrophic

Doesn't seem that uncommon for M1A or M1 rifles.


To quote the book of Thomas, Chapter 1 verse 1:

I'll say it one last time..... beat my head in for it if you want to BUT..... every single person thinking of reloading for this rifle should get a copy of Jerry Kuhnhaussen's 30 calibe service rifle shop manual...... then.... you won't have to listen to opinions of others on this subject..... YOU WILL KNOW without a doubt what is safe and what is not.
Jerry talks about primers being the cause of more kabooms than any other cause.


this is THE authoritive work on the M14...... and if your rifle blows up from reloads..... don't blame china..... don't blame buddy on CGN that told you it was o.k. ..... blame youself cuz you chose not to get the correct information from the best source there is.


Also..... anyone in the lowermainland who is concerned about this silly topic of reciever safety bidges being out of spec can come see me, for free, and i'll use the proper tools to guage your reciever, bolt and firing pin

we really need to put this to bed.
reloader error causes a Kaboom and we all start runnin aound like the sky is falling.... this topic is just so......... internet
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