Yugo M48 problem

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Hey guys,

A few months back I purchased a Yugo M48 from Marstar for $299.
I Finally got around cleaning it a few weeks ago and took it to the range for a christening earlier today.

After getting warmed up shooting some .22WMR rounds at targets and paper at ranges from 100-200 yards. I decided that it was time to shoot the Mauser.

I loaded four rounds into the magazine and since I was the only one at the range I blasted one into the safe distance for that first shot nostalgia. Gun fired normally.I cycled the bolt, then put the safety on and sat down at the table to aim at a target at 100 yards away.

I put the safety off, and then aimed and pulled the trigger. The firing pin struck forward and then I just a heard a click. I thought it might be a dud, so I cycled the bolt to look at the cartridge and here is the interesting part.

I looked at the cartridge and there was no bullet attatched and the neck was black. There was no powder in the bullet. Then I wondered, where the hell is the bullet????? So I took the bolt out and looked down the barrel and sure enough, the bullet seems to be stuck in the barrel. It is sitting where the bullet should sit when it still connected to the cartridge. Maybe a tiny bit in.

Since I am away from home and don't have all my gun-cleaning/smithing tools, I put the rifle back in its case and was slightly curious as well as a little pissed off! The bullet is still sitting in the barrel as we speak.

I was using Federal cheap stuff smmo. 8mm Mauser 170 SP cartridges.

Can anyone explain what happened, what I must do, etc?

Perhaps the neck from the second bullet got warmed up by the first shot and opened a bit letting the pressure out, burning the powder but not firing the bullet????? Thats my guess? Can anyone help?

Thanks
 
I would buy a brass rod and a hammer, take the gun out of the stock, lock the barre in a vice with proper clamps and knock it out of the barrel.
Wood won't work not strong enough.
 
Yup...definitely a squib..meaning no powder.

Please do not take this the wrong way, I am not trying to be insulting in any way.

"Perhaps the neck from the second bullet got warmed up by the first shot and opened a bit letting the pressure out, burning the powder but not firing the bullet????? Thats my guess? Can anyone help?"

From the way you described your theory (quoted above) as to what happened, it is quite evident that perhaps you should endeavour to learn more about the basics of firearms operations. You are lucky that you did not cycle another round and pull the trigger.

The primer contains a very potent mixture of chemicals which explode violently upon the impact of the firing pin. The expanding hot gas is channeled to the powder, which within a nanosecond will also explode. The explosive gas builds up pressure very quickly (micro-second) and it is that energy which propels the bullet forward. The chamber or "neck" - as you referred to it will never, ever heat up and expand enough to discharge the amount of gas generated from the powder before launching the bullet into the barrel.

The stuck bullet in the barrel is a testament to the power of the primer alone when you think of all the energy required to force the bullet onto the rifling and having that rifling literally cut the rifling grooves into the bullet.

I am glad that no one was hurt and this incident should be used as a sign to perhaps take a basic firearms course.
 
sobo4303 said:
Yup...definitely a squib..meaning no powder.

Please do not take this the wrong way, I am not trying to be insulting in any way.

"Perhaps the neck from the second bullet got warmed up by the first shot and opened a bit letting the pressure out, burning the powder but not firing the bullet????? Thats my guess? Can anyone help?"

From the way you described your theory (quoted above) as to what happened, it is quite evident that perhaps you should endeavour to learn more about the basics of firearms operations. You are lucky that you did not cycle another round and pull the trigger.

The primer contains a very potent mixture of chemicals which explode violently upon the impact of the firing pin. The expanding hot gas is channeled to the powder, which within a nanosecond will also explode. The explosive gas builds up pressure very quickly (micro-second) and it is that energy which propels the bullet forward. The chamber or "neck" - as you referred to it will never, ever heat up and expand enough to discharge the amount of gas generated from the powder before launching the bullet into the barrel.

The stuck bullet in the barrel is a testament to the power of the primer alone when you think of all the energy required to force the bullet onto the rifling and having that rifling literally cut the rifling grooves into the bullet.

I am glad that no one was hurt and this incident should be used as a sign to perhaps take a basic firearms course.
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Uh, I believe he did do the right thing and discovered the obstruction.
 
^^ agreed. He just didnt know the reason why it happened.

Definitively a squib load, but if u wanna blame the rifle i will gladly take it off your hands for the cost of what u paid it.
 
Thanks everyone for your responses.

I got the bullet out with a few light taps. After several years of shooting, this was my first squib load in a center-fire. So I was quite surprised. I thought this stuff only happens to rim-fire ammo. But I guess it can happen, but not that often, thankfully.

I believe I did the right thing after attempting to fire by inspecting the cartridge and the rifle itself to make sure it was safe. At this point I deemed it unsafe to fire, so I put the rifle away.

It came as a surprise because the rifle was newly aquired, so I figured it may have been the rifle, not the cartridge.

Thanks again for everyone's input and help.
 
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