Okay, I'll brush and mop it out good. Keep in mind its a chrome lined chamber, it looked mirror smooth before I started shooting and it looks that way now. Its hard to get a pic of it with my phone but itbis bright and shiny and smooth in there.
Case rupture in Galil Ace 308
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Behind the rifle not bad at all, none of it hits you. Off to the sides and it makes you flinch with each shot. But its not horrible either. Hard to tell in the day of course but I didn't notice and fireballs either. A very pleasant gun to shoot, and a real crowd getter too. I had people coming over to look at it the whole time.Other than issue with case how bad was the Boom
Steel cases sometimes create issues that don't exist with brass cases. If this happens again, I would switch to brass cases ammo. Israelis don't use steel case ammo and their rifles are not designed for it like Russian rifles. Just a few random thoughts.
Went to the range briefly. Ran another 100 rounds of brass case through. No issues of any sort. Chalking this up as a fluke with caused by garbage steel case ammo. No more steel case for the Galil.
If you look at Russian military calibers, they are more cone like. This facilitates extraction and they can use steel cases without any issues. Our calibers are more like a cylinder, it's less forgiving when it come to extraction.
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Agreed. No more steel case. Everything seems to be fine. I guess the Israeli's reputation of building robust weapons is true. No sign of anything amiss today.
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
@Podmonkey send that case here and i'll jb weld up and reload it for free easy fix ..
I had issues with steel tula 223 in my savage bolt .. after 3 shots it would lock up and had to hammer the bolt back with my fist . GRRRRR .. my hand was sore ..
then tried the 3 steel and a brass and that worked fine .. then i said FK it .. grabbed the brass brush on the cleaning rod and some hoppe's #9 and scrubbed the chamber good .. now it eats steel and brass with no prob ..
i wonder on that case head blow out .. could it just be a over charge on loading they missed .. or just a bad case at the git go ...
I had issues with steel tula 223 in my savage bolt .. after 3 shots it would lock up and had to hammer the bolt back with my fist . GRRRRR .. my hand was sore ..
then tried the 3 steel and a brass and that worked fine .. then i said FK it .. grabbed the brass brush on the cleaning rod and some hoppe's #9 and scrubbed the chamber good .. now it eats steel and brass with no prob ..
i wonder on that case head blow out .. could it just be a over charge on loading they missed .. or just a bad case at the git go ...
libertysnake
.338 Win Mag
Haven't had any issues with Tula steel case in my AKs. Trigger group operation looks pretty much the same, along with the bolt. I'd say it's probably a fluke.
I'm pretty convinced at this point that it wasn't a blowout but a stuck case whose rim was torn up by the extractor when It tried yanking it out.
I never have in my SKS either but the 7.62x39 is a heavily tapered case that alleviates issues with difficult extraction. My Galil is chambered in .308 which as you know has very minimal taper to it and thus is more susceptible to extraction issues regarding stuck cases.
Isn't there something about not shooting brass and steel case in the same go? Though I thpught was to not shoot brass right after steel which is the opposite of what I did.
Exonautic
.308 Win
Maybe something like don't shoot brass and steel in the same lifetime. Going to steel from brass is exactly how bad it sounds.