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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:08:03 PM EDT
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Hello, I have bought an Bushmaser AR15. This is my first AR15. I have not shot it yet. But I have putt manually a empty case in the chamber. Released the bolt. Now the problem it is stuck!! The round will not come out. I can not putt the rifle on safe and I can not take the upper reciever off. Pulling the charging handle will not help. Please help me. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 |
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Put on some gloves. Orient the rifle vertically, with the muzzle up. Dominant hand pulls back on the charging handle, other hand on the handguards. As you're pulling on the chaging handle, SLAM the buttstock into the ground with your other hand. Don't be shy, treat your gun like the tool it is. |
LOL! (sorry)  Just for future reference, empty fired cases have been exposed to extreme chamber pressures (+40,000 psi IIRC), and will be blown out to fill the chamber they were last fired in. Not to mention the deformation that can occur as that now possibly oversized case is violently ripped out of its comfy hole, banged against the brass deflector and hurled into the spotting scope sitting beside you that you KNOW you told your friend NOT to leave there. So, chambering such rounds are not such a good idea, unless they have been cleaned up and resized. (maybe more to it that, as I'm not a reloader myself) Of course, I wish I could say this without having had to learn this from personal experience myself.....  Tex78 |
This is the correct answer |
I'm going to advise against this. A few years ago I was with a group of people who went on a 'field trip' to a range and one of them was an attractive young woman who brought her brand new Dissy along to learn how to shoot it. (yeah, I know) Anyway, the guy giving everybody the safety briefing was showing how to operate the Dissy and wanted to demonstrate the use of the forward assist so he grabbed a spent casing out of his range bag and proceded to lock it up tight as can be. When we finally got the casing out we saw that the casing had split after being resized to the Dissy's chamber without any lube. The chrome lined chamber was totally unaffected but when we went out on the range it was having some serious reliabilty issues because several guys attempted to demonstrate their manliness by doing all sorts of brute force attempts at clearing the stuck casing. So much brute force that they bent the nose of the charging handle and it was binding against th top of the bolt carrier. These guys were so busy trying to impress eachother and her with their knowledge that one of them even started 'field stripping' it by removing the handguards and detachable carry handle as if that would help get the casing out. The casing was removed by seperating the upper and lower (you'll have to work at it to get the carrier to clear the hammer and the bolt stop but it will slide out and to the front) then just insert a flat-head between the end of the bolt carrier and the end of the barrel extension and slowly pry them apart. once it's loose the carrier will come right out and you can put it all back together. |
[Mr. Rogers] Can you say "Snap Caps" ? I knew you could. [/Mr. Rogers] 
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+1 this is the easiest and fastest way. |
| sounds like a nice tight extractor...breaking your rifle in is gonna be a bitch. I had the same problem with my Eagle Arms. Anyway get yourself a cleaning rod and something to beat it with. Then procees to beat the ever living crap outta the rod. Eventually enough space will open up that you can get a pair of pliers in and use them the reverse way (stick them in closed and open) to pry the bolt away from the chamber. |
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Doesn't Bushmaster still send a manual that has what seems to be 5 million possible problems and corrective actions in it? Use the cleaning rod technique or when I had this happen at the range with some Wolf "Performance" Ammo, I racked the charging handle over the shooting bench to get it the stuck case out. You got to be a man with that rifle. |
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I bet every AR owner who has fired it for more than a couple of hundred rounds has done something like that. Yes, the "bang the butt on the ground hard while pulling the charging handle" drill does indeed work, the vast majority of the time. Ever since I learned that, the only non-live cases I'll put in my rifle are dummies I loaded up (no primer, or a used primer) specifically for drills. Throwing a few into a random handful of ammo and then loading up a mag with them is also useful for determining if you're flinching or have acquired other bad habits. You never know when or if you're going to find the dummy round, and when you do find it, you'll know if you're flinching or anything. That sort of drill works well on ALL guns. CJ |
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No... Tap Rack Bang is to; Tap... tap the bottom of the magazine to make sure it is seated Rack... Rack the charging handle to the rear Bang... shoot the damn thing Also known as immediate action |
If you mean SPORTS, you are missing a few steps. Anybody that has been in the Army ought to know what SPORTS stands for. |
SPORTS is remedial action there high speed... Tap, Rack, Bang is immediate action... That be Marine Corps shit... |
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I got the shell out. I have used a cleaning rod to get it out. I think that the bolt was not locked up. Because I pulled it and at the same time I used the cleaning rod to punch it out . I think that the shell was not that stuck. But I would really like to thank all of you for helping me. I could not have fixed it without your help. I will post some pictures soon. It is a Post ban Bushmaster A3 with a 20 inch barrel made 2001. It has a bajonet lug and a flashhider. |
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