XCR-L out of battery discharge

Glad your not hurt. I have seen many pistols destroyed in IPSC matches and Black Badge training as well as a Colt AR15 and a Tikka T3 damaged from bad ammo. Only the T3 caused any injury. Was my wife injured though. That was a quiet drive home.......

Moe
 
Canadian_Zuk said:
Reloads. Once fired winchester brass. 23gr Benchmark under a 62gr fowler match hp With wincheser primers. Not a hot load, I've loaded and shot many of these. It was a fresh mag, it cooked off as it was stripped from the mag as best I can tell. Chamber was empty, I assume the firing pin must have been stuck forward. Lots of rounds through this gun, never had an issue.
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Glad your OK. If your chamber was empty and you were charging the gun from the mag the round didn't "cook off" it was set off! could have been a broken/stuck firing pin or more likely a high primer with your reloads. Considering how hard XCR's are on primers I won't use winchester primers in mine anymore.

Whinny primers tend to be soft, I had a slam fire with them in a SKS that I was reloading 150gr pills for. Rob Arm did have a problem batch of .223 bolts that were damaging primers and they had to chamfer the firing pin hole to save the batch and cure the problem. Mine is one of these.

I've been considering just keeping my 7.62x39 kit on my XCR because of the crappy .223 bolt. It works fine in x 39 and the fired primers don't look near as bad.
 
Good googley woogley, glad you're ok. That could have been really bad. Definitely something went wrong in the self loading cycle.

Had a muzzle loader turn loose on me once and I wasn't as fortunate(I shoot left handed). A SAE threaded nipple installed by a previous owner in a Metric threaded receiver. And No he didn't admit he had done work on the gun.
 
Glad you were not injured!

On the bright side, you can probably upgrade to the new Type 2 bolt now :) There are quite a few videos on youtube about various rifles exploding due to ammo or case separation. Scary indeed.
 
I plan to clean each primer pocket and hand prime for the first while.

I have a whole bunch of Win NT 1F brass (I am told that the primers/flash hole is not proprietary with this brass). I will use CCI small rifle primers too - supposed to be fairly hard (second to CCI Mil primers).

I guess this is an example why firing a rifle that encloses the bolt is preferred (vs. something like a VZ58).
 
crashcollins said:
Glad your OK. If your chamber was empty and you were charging the gun from the mag the round didn't "cook off" it was set off! could have been a broken/stuck firing pin or more likely a high primer with your reloads. Considering how hard XCR's are on primers I won't use winchester primers in mine anymore.

Whinny primers tend to be soft, I had a slam fire with them in a SKS that I was reloading 150gr pills for. Rob Arm did have a problem batch of .223 bolts that were damaging primers and they had to chamfer the firing pin hole to save the batch and cure the problem. Mine is one of these.

I've been considering just keeping my 7.62x39 kit on my XCR because of the crappy .223 bolt. It works fine in x 39 and the fired primers don't look near as bad.
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Yeah, bad choice of words on my part. The round never made it into the chamber, it was "set off" when I release the charging handle. A stuck firing pin would be my guess, but I have no idea how. The gun is in great shape otherwise, always kept very clean and run very wet with light lube as recommended. I've put thousands of rounds through this gun, I know it inside out and take very good care of it...This was not due to a lack of maintenance as previously suggested. Looks like I'm in about $700 for the upper alone, I'll be buying a keymod this time around and using type 1 internals to work with my older gen lower.
 
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