I was shooting some rifles the other day checking pressure and a fellow showed up with his freshly purchased Mouser XXXXX

He fired one shot at a 25 yard target, lifted the bolt handle but it wouldn't pull.

He took the rifle to his truck and beat on the bolt handle with a hammer four or five good wacks and then slid the rifle over is radio antenna and slid the rifle up and down...

Bang, Bang, Bang, like a slide hammer until after about 20 good hard wacks out came the case.

He then put in another round and did the same thing stuck case and all. He did this at least 6 times before he left.

WOW, I have never seen anything like it.

Was he having fun? That's what it's all about!!

No he was pissed

Surely you jest.

Bear in Fairbanks

As we used to say in The Corps, "adapt and overcome".

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Originally posted by ted thorn:
He did this at least 6 times before he left.

WOW, I have never seen anything like it.

When he left.....did you notice his Obama bumpersticker?

Ted, quit telling on yourself like that!!!

In the late 60s early 70s we shot ATA competition with an ole cowboy named Jonesy. Every once in a while during a shoot he would take his Mod. 12 w/ 30" barrel and bend that barrel a scotch between his truck bumper and support than go back and shoot. Worked for him. roger

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Originally posted by Bear in Fairbanks:
Surely you jest.

Bear in Fairbanks

+1

If those were reloads he was shooting he was approaching some bad (worse) shit happening!

Are you sure it was a mauser and not an Arisaka rechambered to 30-06?

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the rifle over is radio antenna and slid the rifle up and down...

What kinda reception was he getting .....?

He wasn't shooting 7x57's in a 7.65 Argentine, was he? They will chamber but they come out looking a little funny (don't ask me how I know hehehehe)-

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Bang, Bang, Bang, like a slide hammer until after about 20 good hard wacks out came the case.

Great design that Mauser. Having a forged one piece bolt is why his bolt handle stayed attached. On some other actions, that handle might have come off.

I have just to wonder what ammunition he was firing. It was obviously too hot for his rifle.

Was the range master sleeping?

Question:

What was Hotsh#t doing in Missouri ????

I always use this method myself. The problem is that when stalking deer it is necessary to park the car pretty close by as otherwise the long walk back to clear the chamber becomes a bit of a pain.

I'm thinking of maybe developing a portable version that you could take with you to the deer stalking, or even to the range. Seems like there might be a big market for it.

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Originally posted by Big Bird:
Was the range master sleeping?

Range Master? South East Missouri?
We don't have no stinking rangmasters.

He has a cousin downunder.
Once in the 1970's I went shooting with a fellow who had a Mauser bolt action rifle. I did not pay much attention to his "308 Win" when he pulled it out and started shooting roos from the back of the ute as I was holding the spotlight as he was shooting the roos in the crops.
When we had a break from shooting ( 20 or so shots later) I went to collect the spent cases from the back of the ute and noticed that they looked like pistol cases. Straight walled, I checked the rifle and it was not a 308 Win it was a 3006.
It was pretty accurate on the roos. I kept a case as a keepsake.
I have never seen that happen before or since.

Ted, proably a good thing pretty much every range even the public ones have a range master up here,....problem is some of the public range masters don't seem to know all that much about firearms, collect the money, hand out the target

Collect money? Our ranges are public, and are paid for by taxes. Free....sorta

Well ya know what they say about someone that does the same thing over and over and never getting a different result...

I'm hard headed, but I think even I would have shut it down after the second stuck case, and for sure after the third.

I assume he was shooting reloaded ammo that was too hot? Or, the wrong ammo for his gun?

I have no idea the caliber or type of ammo he was shooting. I stayed away and watched.

It was good of you to hang around and watch him Ted. Sure would've been hard for him to dial 911 with no fingers.

That reminds me of a guy I was shooting with back inthe '70s. He was the brother in law of my shooting buddy.

He had this old war-weary 1911. I was standing next to him , and noticed his ejected brass was going straight up...He would shoot, and I would wait a beat, say "I GOT IT!, hold out my hand, and catch the ejected brass, which was somewhat warm.

I amused myself like that for several rounds, when I noticed that the cases were bulged, then some had little air scoops blown out of them where the feed ramp sisn't support the casehead. I thought that was the sign of something strange, and 4 or 5 more rounds later, he shot, and the gun disassembled itself...the barrel bushing broke, and the slide and recoil spring landed about 5 feet in front of him.

I found out later he had "worked up" some loads, using 250 gr. 45-70 bullets, with his standard load of whatever powder. The larger diameter of those bullets, plus the extra 20 gr. weight were producing who knows what pressure.

Thank you, John Browning, for keeping both of us safe from fools, drunkards, and reloaders!