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Old 03-22-2012, 01:40 AM
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Default What's with the bolt on a Mosin Nagant

After firing about four rounds, it became almost impossible to work the bolt and chamber another round. The bolt would come about halfway up and stop, taking tremendous effort to eject the spent casing. By the sixth round, we could not eject at all and I had to take a plastic head hammer at home to open the bolt completelty ejecting the spent round.

Anyone know what causes this phenomena? I can't see even the Russians giving their troops rifles that would stick like that. Anyone know a solution? Just wondering since it seemed a very accurate weapon at several hundred yards.

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