Anyone ever had this happen?

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Had this happen yesterday. Case head separated and the next round jammed in the others back side.( Phrasing I know)
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With .303 British cases, yes but intentional to remove the case body after the case head separated after one too many full length resizings. Never with a .223 round.
 
Yup... had that happen a couple of times over the years. Once during a match and once while plinking, both using reloaded ammo. At least the live round served as a ruptured case extractor!

I keep a long 9mm bronze chamber brush in the shooting box to help with case extraction when the forward half of the case gets stuck in the chamber.
 
Reloads that are on the hot side.

I have had one other case head separate, but not the next case preform the broken shell extraction.

Pretty cool.
 
Yes. Looked exactly like what you have. Of course it was factory 7.62 military ammo.
While in the USAF as a combat arms instructor we had an M60 machine gun do that exact thing. Do to the fact it was hot and design of the weapon it was a bear to get it out and make it safe.
Only happened once in 17 years of running classes daily. So I would think it was pretty rare.
 
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More than once, less than often.

Reloads. Pretty sure it's just old range brass and not a headspace issue. Still made me think about getting a gauge. I'll at least note the gun if it happens again.

There's one looks like that rolling around in the garage I think.
 
Yup, one time many years ago in a Mini-14. It was my first bottleneck cartridge I was full length sizing for, the remainder of the herd were either bolt action I was neck sizing only or pistol and revolver. Mine also was stuck pretty hard over the next round. I still keep it on the bench as a reminder.

I believe my mistake was setting up the sizing die according to the manufacturer directions (shellplate contact plus 1/4 turn) instead of finely adjusting for the exact headspace of that chamber. Live and learn.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger (or smarter :confused:).

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I had a CETME that loved to “cut” cases in the chamber. It made for some really colorful verbiage when I couldn’t get the thing to fully go into battery. A member here and all around swell guy, @dsink, diagnosed it over the phone.
Experienced Smiths and broken shell extractors are your friends!
 
Bull Durham said:
I had a CETME that loved to “cut” cases in the chamber. It made for some really colorful verbiage when I couldn’t get the thing to fully go into battery. A member here and all around swell guy, @dsink, diagnosed it over the phone.
Experienced Smiths and broken shell extractors are your friends!
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Had a friend over that had a CETME, and every single brass and steel casing came apart at the back end. Had one lodge so bad that he had to tap the inside of the steel case, thread it, and pull it out. How that happened without screwing up the barrel is beyond me.

What was the issue?
 
I never had any problems running steel cases through it, just brass.
There were lots of instances online about the fluted chambers on CETME’s chewing up brass and even ripping it off clean like @Howland’s pic.
Never heard of steel being a problem.
JD
 
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Yes with a .22lr, and it seated far enough in to allow the round to be fired out of battery, exploding the cartridge and gases out the receiver. Pretty sure one of the bolt pieces also came apart and flew out the gun.

GSG-22 MP5 clone
 
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