I was at the Buffalo Range in Ottawa today, blasting away at the pit, when I pull the trigger and nothing happens. I'd been shooting some real cheap reloads I got a couple years ago, trying to get rid of them. An occasional dud, but mostly they go bang.
So I figured it was a dud, and I go to pull the charging handle to rack another round in, and it's STUCK. It moves about 1/2 inch back and that's it. I looked through the ejection port and I see the bolt carrier moved about 3/4" back from fully forward, the bolt is sticking out of the carrier, but not in battery. I can see the locking lugs on the bolt, and they're in the lugs on the chamber, but not locked in. It's like the bolt started coming back (or going forward) and stopped.
So I took the upper off, having to move it forward and off because the bolt carrier's sticking into the stock. The carrier won't move. I can't get the charging handle out because it won't move back far enough. Short of sticking a cleaning rod down the barrel and banging, any ideas?