Paint Can Opener on your Plate Carrier (could save your life)

Learned this 30 yrs ago after a ruptured case in a M1 Carbine. Drive a wooden dowel/stick into the chamber and then tap out with steel rod (cleaning rod). You may have to repeat several times until wood grabs case. Here's a ruptured case in a 7.62x54R PKM barrel I extracted in Afghanistan. Done the same with .50 BMG on a M2 barrel.

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I think it’s a cool idea…

But I’m honest with myself: if I’m ever in a situation where I am having to go to work using an AR15 then everything in my world has gone wrong. I will be scared, filled with adrenaline, possibly with soiled britches. I really doubt I would have the frame of mind to reach in with a paint can opener to fix my rifle when the bullets are flying. Most likely if my rifle fails like that it will literally be the last problem I ever have.


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Combat Diver said:
Learned this 30 yrs ago after a ruptured case in a M1 Carbine. Drive a wooden dowel/stick into the chamber and then tap out with steel rod (cleaning rod). You may have to repeat several times until wood grabs case. Here's a ruptured case in a 7.62x54R PKM barrel I extracted in Afghanistan. Done the same with .50 BMG on a M2 barrel.

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That's a really clever "field expedient". That chamber mouth picture looks very much like the PSL I used to have, with that fragile-looking raised rim around the top of the chamber.
 
JBoyette said:
I am still at a loss of what the point of your post here is. I assume I hurt your feelings with my comment on that video. And you went with a assumed 3rd or 4th hand digital back slap of a ND that happened 10 years ago this coming up August. IF you ever been to any of my classes, that ND story is part of my safety brief, because I use first hand information that's relevant to the student. So its not a shameful nor a thing you need a decoder ring for.

BTW, you got the story wrong it was with a XD pistol in a trailer with Gen Higdon, the founder of High Speed Gear and the inventor of the Taco Pouch. (please record that in your book of John) for safe keeping and I can use you for my autobiography as a fact checker.

So please do tell as @Burt Gummer requested this, AR Discharge story.

I would like to know too.
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So is the ND or the XD supposed to be the humbling part of this story?
 
BlackGun said:
Thanks for sharing a great tip. Yuck on Youtubers who spend 6 minutes that should have taken 90 seconds.
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Longer than needed videos on YouTube is common, there is a minimum length requirement to be able to receive $$$. Everybody wants to be able to earn enough making videos to retire now.

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