WASR question

[rugbyer81]

Let me see if I really screwed up here. I recently purchased a very good condition WASR-10, and today decided to test how it fed the rounds from those 30 round magazines. When I pushed the bolt foward, the tip of the rounds would get caught on the bottom lip of the chamber and stop the bolt; not allowing the rounds to feed. I figured this might be because of the double stack 30 rounders, so i took a file and a drill and filed a little ramp on the lip of the chamber, and now the rounds seem to feed.

I wont have a chance to fire it for a little while, so I figured id ask you guys. Do you think what I did will work? I'm not familiar with AK's or semi autos, so I wasn't sure. Thanks.

 

[dstorm1911]

are ya reffering to a single stack wasr? ya shouldn't even be able to insert a double stack mag without trimming the magwell and mag stabilizers........ as far as ya damaging it.... no way to tell without seeing it, hopefully ya didn't take enough off the chamber to the point that the case is no longer fully supported..

Ya might wanna take it to someone who is a gunsmith to be sure... the correct way to adjust the mag is at the rear of the magwell BTW

 

[W.E.G.]

Sounds like it might work.

Don't load live rounds to test the "success" of your gunsmithing job inside the house.

AMHIK.

 

[aaronrkelly]

My WASR would hangup feeding hollow points, but would feed FMJ and soft points just fine.

I took a round file and did what you did, just knocked the edge off the chamber and countoured it a bit - worked fine.

 

[kingpin008]

Are you riding the bolt forward when you try to chamber a round? By the way your post is worded, it sounds like you are. If so, stop doing it and see what happens. Many guns (both rifles and pistols) can be made to jam by the operator riding the bolt/slide forward. I know it's the case with AR's. Cycle the bolt briskly on a loaded mag, and see if that doesn't fix the problem.

 

[rugbyer81]

I did exactly what aaronkelly did it sounds like. I dont think I was riding the bolt forward, I just let it freely try to cycle. My question isn't so much that I dont think it will chamber and fire, i'm fairly confident it will. My question has more to do with whether a slight modification to a chamber like that will affect the gases at all, or extraction. I don't know how tight the tolerances on these things are.

 

[novaDAK]

the wasr I just bought a month ago had this problem I think...it would fire one round, and then the bolt wouldn't close all the way...even if the mag was empty and no round was in the chamber, the bolt would stick a lot. I took it apart and cleaned as much cosmoline out of it as I could and now the bolt seems to move more freely...I'll have to take it out to the outdoor range sometime and see how it is now