Thread: Had an interesting one last night.

I got asked to help with a problem mob of pigs. Farmer wanted them all gone. We got to the property and they could be seen from the roadside 200 yards away. 12 of them. We got out of car quietly and prepared and got to a position where we could load our rifles.
Because this was going to be a bomb up and because they were close to the bush, I decided Id fill the magazine and drop an extra into the chamber. something ive done countless times in the past when ive thought the extra round might be handy. However when I went to close the bolt, the claw extractor didn't wish to slip over the rim. We quietly retired too the truck for some tools but then couldn't remove the round from the chamber.
all the time the pigs were feeding closer and there was an air of frustration. I removed and checked the bolt and extractor spring. All looked good, so said to the guys that I was going to force it a bit harder, and with a decent hard push it worked, but I had a niggling feeling something wasn't right, the bolt tension just felt wrong and I was uncomfortable. So told the guys I was going to unload and keeping gun pointed ground wards, started to lift the handle.

With just the slightest movement of handle it went off, creating a divit about 2 feet from my toes.

Thought Id share because in the heat of a hunt like that with animals about and something going wrong, it's so easy to get distracted or impatient. Im bloody pleased I had my wits about me to recognise the situation wasn't fixed when bolt closed.

That's a different one. What is the rifle?

not ideal, glad you are OK.
What brand and model and caliber of rifle was it?

Rifle is a BRNO 600 in 280AI. Ive had it for 30+ years and never had an issue before. I could just "feel " something was wrong on bolt closure and am presuming something to do with the pressure required or maybe how the case was sitting in the chamber didn't allow the sear to fully engage when closing.

Hey
I had something similar with a zkk601 223 when I was younger
I can’t recall exactly what order it all happened but it did go off once when closing the bolt. Ended up with a broken extractor but that was at the time of the dodgy h&f branded ammo so likely the cause


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Bugger! I guess that got the attention of the mob. Pigs going in all directions?

Might want to pull the trigger mechanism apart and give it a good clean. The triggers on the ZKK series is very complicated and intimidating, but eith the amount of moving parts I would not be surprized if something got in there.

Cartridge stuck in chamber. Maybe rust or something in the chamber(piece of rag from last clean possibly)

Yeah I'll be going over it with a fine toothed comb today.

I had the single stage trigger fitted and lightened years ago to simplify things over the set trigger system. And yeah this rifle dosnt get used often nowadays so could be some material found its way into chamber. I definitely thought it could be rust etc.

Definitely correct round???? Not a 270 per chance???

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Definitely correct round???? Not a 270 per chance???

No it was correct round.

I experienced a similar event, but it was with a rimfire. The only think that suffered was my car door. Scary. Glad you're OK.

Cheers for sharing that.... everyone reading it will now know to listen to their gut feeling and engage a cautious mind set in similar scenarios

only had one balls up in all these years mate dropped a couple of 223 into my 222 when we had a zero session could not understand wtf was going on until I had the foresight to look at head stamp

I've got a 601 in .223. You can sneak a sixth round into the magazine, and then one up the spout, as you were doing, but once fired, it won't pick up the next round no matter what, if you don't fire the first round it will, go figure. The other thing, you can't close the bolt on a round already in the chamber, the extractor doesn't have enough room to move around the rim of the case to lock into the shell because the machining in the chamber won't let it, I think all mauser actions are like that. I'm assuming the reason that the rifle fired was because the firing pin had not gone all the the way back to lock in because the bolt wasn't home properly, but someone else maybe able to confirm that.

Originally mausers weren't able to be push fed. As suggested there wasn't enough room for the claw to move out.
Later I think some have been made to be able to be push fed if required and there is a lot of people that want a controlled feed that can do exactly that in the heat of battle when dangerous game hunting. If they don't, they will be eventually.
. My Czech mauser is in the middle. Won't push feed but with a squeeze of the extractor in the middle as you close the bolt, and it will close.
Haven't had any issues like this though