All right, I know I'm going to receive a lot of grief over this, but I'm having some issues with my AK 74.
It's a Century Arms M74.
Go ahead, I can take it.
So when we were at the range last weekend, I brought my AK-74. Never had an issue with it. One of my favorite guns to shoot due to its light recoil, cheap price of ammo, and the fact that everyone knows true operators use AKs. Anyways, @Red Dawn broke it. Not really, but that's the story I'm going with! LOL. When he was shooting it it randomly failed to go bang. When he went to charge the rifle with another round the bolt was stuck. After some serious convincing, we were able to extract the casing, but no bullet... It was still stuck in the chamber. There was no primer strike. I'm assuming the round did not fully seat keeping the hammer from the firing pin thank God. We took the cleaning rod and was able to knock the bullet out of the barrel. I thought it might just be a bad round but it did it again after about fifteen rounds. At that point I cased the rifle and put it back in the car. The barrel really was not that dirty. Besides, it's an AK. They're not supposed to stop because they're dirty. I contacted Century Arms this morning, we'll see how they respond. I know they had that one incident in the past where a barrel was not properly headspaced which resulted in a catastrophic failure. It was also and M74. I'm willing to venture that they will be on top of this as they will not want any bad press.
It's a Century Arms M74.
Go ahead, I can take it.
So when we were at the range last weekend, I brought my AK-74. Never had an issue with it. One of my favorite guns to shoot due to its light recoil, cheap price of ammo, and the fact that everyone knows true operators use AKs. Anyways, @Red Dawn broke it. Not really, but that's the story I'm going with! LOL. When he was shooting it it randomly failed to go bang. When he went to charge the rifle with another round the bolt was stuck. After some serious convincing, we were able to extract the casing, but no bullet... It was still stuck in the chamber. There was no primer strike. I'm assuming the round did not fully seat keeping the hammer from the firing pin thank God. We took the cleaning rod and was able to knock the bullet out of the barrel. I thought it might just be a bad round but it did it again after about fifteen rounds. At that point I cased the rifle and put it back in the car. The barrel really was not that dirty. Besides, it's an AK. They're not supposed to stop because they're dirty. I contacted Century Arms this morning, we'll see how they respond. I know they had that one incident in the past where a barrel was not properly headspaced which resulted in a catastrophic failure. It was also and M74. I'm willing to venture that they will be on top of this as they will not want any bad press.
