Crusader
05-19-2009, 9:43 PM
Harmoniums made a video of me shooting my Kar98k today. It's the 3rd one.
http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=186718&page=7
He edited most of it, because it's embarrasing. But you can clearly see 2 or 3 examples of where the bolt simply pushes the round into the chamber, rather than snagging the round and feeding it. I was able to remedy it this time by simply pointing the barrel up. But it's really annoying.
I have a Czech Kar98k rifle that is having some feeding issues. I love it to death, but the last time I took it out shooting I probably had this same problem happen 5 times.
At random times, the claw extractor/ejector will not snag the case by the lip when chambering, and will rather just push it straight into the chamber. If I am working the bolt hard and fast, the result is a round stuck in the chamber but that won't extract because the claw never hooked on to the case.
I can force the round to chamber when it is stuck in this fashion, but to do so requires all my strength pushing down on the bolt handle to force the claw around the round already stuck in the chamber.
I know this is not normal, because if this happened in combat it would pretty much be a death sentence... I'm a really strong guy and it takes all my might to snap the bolt into place when this issue happens.
The only other choice is to pull out the cleaning rod and slam down on the bullet a couple times to force it back out of the chamber.
Does anyone know what's going on, and what I can do to fix it? Other than this issue, the rifle performs wonderfully. And it only happens on every 30-40 rounds or so.
http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=186718&page=7
He edited most of it, because it's embarrasing. But you can clearly see 2 or 3 examples of where the bolt simply pushes the round into the chamber, rather than snagging the round and feeding it. I was able to remedy it this time by simply pointing the barrel up. But it's really annoying.
I have a Czech Kar98k rifle that is having some feeding issues. I love it to death, but the last time I took it out shooting I probably had this same problem happen 5 times.
At random times, the claw extractor/ejector will not snag the case by the lip when chambering, and will rather just push it straight into the chamber. If I am working the bolt hard and fast, the result is a round stuck in the chamber but that won't extract because the claw never hooked on to the case.
I can force the round to chamber when it is stuck in this fashion, but to do so requires all my strength pushing down on the bolt handle to force the claw around the round already stuck in the chamber.
I know this is not normal, because if this happened in combat it would pretty much be a death sentence... I'm a really strong guy and it takes all my might to snap the bolt into place when this issue happens.
The only other choice is to pull out the cleaning rod and slam down on the bullet a couple times to force it back out of the chamber.
Does anyone know what's going on, and what I can do to fix it? Other than this issue, the rifle performs wonderfully. And it only happens on every 30-40 rounds or so.