Ruger american 350 legend

[JCSC]

Had a young man hunting in Ohio and miss on his first shot. He ejected the spent casing and had a jamb. What I found when I arrived was two live rounds lodged in the entrance to the chamber.

never seen anything like this before and can’t wrap my head around how it is possible.

Any thoughts.

 

[mcb]

Most likely scenario to generate a double feed with a bolt action is the shooter short stroked it. He open the bolt ejecting the spent cartridge and started to close the bolt on the next round, and for some reason stopped, reversed the bolt direction, before fully feeding the first round. Since the Ruger American is a push feed that first round was left sitting where it was when the bolt reversed direction, released from the magazine, and maybe partially into the chamber. So now that first round is laying on top of the rest of the rounds in the magazine. He brought the bolt back far enough to catch the next round in the magazine and pushing the bolt forward it stripped a second round from the magazine driving it up under the first round already laying there and then the bolt tried to chamber both rounds.

 

[horsemen61]

^^ this

 

[JCSC]

That makes sense. I was not aware that these bolts did not firmly grasp the shell thru the process. I wasn’t personally on site, so didn’t get to see the details.

sounds like a heat of the moment mistake for a young hunter.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Strange things happen when deer hunting. A friend of mine unloaded his Marlin 30-30 on deer and never fired a shot.

 

[edwardware]

I was not aware that these bolts did not firmly grasp the shell thru the process.

This is precisely the malfunction near and dear to the hearts of Controlled Round Feed advocates.

 

[gotboostvr]

Strange things happen when deer hunting. A friend of mine unloaded his Marlin 30-30 on deer and never fired a shot.

...How in the...?

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Typical behavior under stress -- he was working the lever, but not squeezing the trigger and didn't realize he never fired a shot.

During the Civil War, Ordnance scoured the battlefields, picking up and refurbishing abandoned muskets. A common comment in an Ordnance officer's report is the number of abandoned muskets with two to as many as 12 charges in the barrel. Under stress, a soldier would go through the motions of loading, but forget to put the cap on. He would snap the trigger, and not realizing the weapon hadn't fired, would reload.

 

[BreechFace]

Love my CRF Win m70's.

This is precisely the malfunction near and dear to the hearts of Controlled Round Feed advocates.

Brings a tear to my eye...

 

[BreechFace]

@JCSC How jambed were the cartridges, easy to get out?

 

[JCSC]

They were VERY stuck in the chamber. Not easy to remove and had to take the weapon home to get better tools.

 

[MEHavey]

Firm cleaning rod wouldn't do it?

 

[WisBorn]

The way the rounds are stacked right on top of each other I would think the bolt picked up both shells at the same time.
This would make me think that the magazine has opened up and not stacking the rounds, but getting them more side by side.

Just a thought.

 

[army_eod]

Mag problem. That gun uses AR type mags.

 

[DMW1116]

I had a very similar jam on my AR10 before I got the gas block tuned. It ejected the fired round and half grabbed the next one. My attempt to manually run the bolt to clear it was met with the same result as above.