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Posted: 2/22/2003 8:36:03 AM EDT
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How in the hell do you get a 223 round mixed up with a 7.62 round?
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Posted: 2/22/2003 11:32:53 AM EDT
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dont smoke crack when you load your magazines!!
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Posted: 2/22/2003 11:47:40 AM EDT
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How the hell did you get the bolt to lock?
A 5.56 casing is way to long to chamber in a 7.62x39. It is also too large diameter at the shoulder to obtrude into the leade of the bore. You might have gotten a 5.45x39 to chamber but not a 5.56. I used to deliberately try to do this to show how the VC could not use M-16 ammo as some people argue. |
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Posted: 2/22/2003 2:09:37 PM EDT
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Hey folks, I originally read this post, laughed & went on since I thought that here was another internet "poser" proclaiming some unbelievable situation.
Anyway, guess what.. I tried to chamber a .223 in my Polytech 7.62 & ...... It locked & was ready to fire. Upon extraction I found that the case now had a second shoulder. Using spent brass I found upon pulling the trigger the firing pin struck the primer dead center. Never believed it would be possible. I would think that ussflinster is a very lucky man. |
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Posted: 2/22/2003 2:49:34 PM EDT
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YES 5.56X45 can be mixed up with 7.62X39 Be Careful......Very, very careful
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Posted: 2/22/2003 2:53:15 PM EDT
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ussflintster,
I here by award you with the "You Stumped TJ Award". I thought I had done about everything till I read this. Thanks for sharing, I got one major hoot out of it.  |
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Posted: 2/22/2003 6:51:03 PM EDT
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I saw my father in law do the exact same thing. He complained about a malfunction. When I cleared the weapon and extracted the case, it was just fire formed at the shoulder to 7.62. No split, nothing wrong with the rifle and he kept on shooting, only more carefully. Go figure.
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Posted: 2/22/2003 7:39:31 PM EDT
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If the gun is running fine, I doubt there's anything wrong with it. You could take it to a gunsmith to be sure, but I doubt you broke anything.
Think of it this way: While the .223 is a high pressure round, and will cause KBs in .223 rifles, you had plenty of escape routes for the pressure to take in a 7.62x39. There would have been MASSIVE gas pressure loss blowing by the bullet, which is not going to fill up the 7.62mm bore. It's possible the .223 case messed with your rifling or something, but it's not going to effect anything you'll notice in the real world. Having it checked out by a smith is always a good idea. But I doubt you hurt it at all. Ross |
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Posted: 2/23/2003 2:33:22 AM EDT
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You should be fine. As stated above, the gas pressure escaped around the bullet. Take a look at the bolt face, look for any cracks, chips ect.
There was a guy at the range on day cussing his SAR2. It was jamming, not extracting and not hitting anywhere near his point of aim. When we tried to help, found he was shooting .223 through it. No harm to the weapon at all. Mike |
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Posted: 2/23/2003 2:51:10 AM EDT
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this happens more than folks realize.
no big deal as long as no one was injured. i've witnessed more scrap metal made when the CORRECT calibre round blew the gun up than when an incorrect round was touched off. other than fire forming/rupturing that 5.56x45 case, i really doubt you did any harm. like ross said, you should have had plenty of gas escape route, going out as bullet blow by in this case. |
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Posted: 2/23/2003 10:35:15 AM EDT
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my friend ken has a berretta 92. and also has a 96, and somehow he mixed up his loaded mags, when he was not paying much attention he loaded the 9mm mag into the 40 cal gun, chambered it, i have no idea how, and fired, the round went off, sounded like a weak round, he freaked when he saw what had happened, the bullet went maybee 40 feet from the muzzle, he has since sold the 9, and the mags
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