My AK swallowed a bullet....

grungewehr39

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Took my WASR out yesterday. Haven't shot that thing since I went over to the dark side about 4 years ago. Ran a few 10 round mags through it just to get reacquainted with the terrible stock trigger. Wasn't too bad. So I proceeded to eat up some 30 rounders. After a couple of mags, I thought the carrier was not going back as far as it should. But, since it had been soooo long since I shot an AK, I just chocked it up to that. Shot fine. Actually kinda miss it. Anyway, got home and proceeded to field strip and...


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I estimate about 120 rounds or so AFTER this round got back there.
 
Hahaha, wow, amazing that it still ran.
 
I've had a round go over the bolt and carrier in my AR and jam it up, what a PITA!!!! I'm just glad nothing popped off. This is why glasses and gloves are worn. U NEVER KNOW.
 
Thats wild, makes me kinda sorta want one.
 
Reminds me of the “will it AK” videos where the guy fills an AK with all type of stuff to see if it will still run!
 
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That's not a malfunction, that's showing off.

But yeah that's pretty incredible. How in the world did a round get behind the bolt? What kind of mags are you using?
 
I had a failure to fire and cycled the bolt again. Apparently, I had the rifle on just the right angle to swallow it up, how, I do not know. I looked on the ground for the ejected, what I thought at the time, was a spent shell. Couldn't pick mine out of the pile already on the ground, so I assumed it had ejected. And this is why you don't assume. For the record, standard Romy steel mags I've had for 25+ years.
 
WASR 10 or 10/63? Is there slop in the magwell?
 
It's an AK. Its what they do.....
 
AK's are gonna AK.

Wow, eating their own. That's tough.
 
Nyet, rifle is fine. Dozens of AKs and many, many, many thousands of rounds later and ... that's a first for me right here, @grungewehr39. I don't believe I've ever seen that in a 7.62x39 AK before. I know this was a known issue in some first-gen AK-V 9mms (hence the so-called "MAC bracket"), but wow nonetheless!

I saw the photo before I read your description and just assumed this was the IO you just sold lol.
 
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