Who says AK's don't malfunction? Can anyone determine if this was the gun, ammo, mag, or a combination that caused the malfunction?

 

Hurry up mate, they com'in up the hill with bayonets.  LOL.

Looks like a case failure to me.  Bad ammo. Had to get the case out of the chamber.  Could have been an out of battery firing. Still going with ammo.

that is the crappiest dust cover rail I've ever seen on an AK.  I wonder what other junk that rifle had on it.

 

from what I could tell... cartridge got stuck in the chamber and the extractor wasn't picking it up and was a possible double feed.  bad magazine + maybe bad extractor (or a really dirty chamber for that round to get stuck)

I'd go with bad ammo.

^{I love how he casually states how ridiculous it would be dying due to stuck case in the breech.} 

 

^{That's a decent display immediate and remedial action.} 

I stopped feeling sorry for him when he shook the riflle then and threw the BCG, dust cover, recoil spring and gas piston in the dirt!

I stopped feeling sorry for him when he shook the riflle then and threw the BCG, dust cover, recoil spring and gas piston in the dirt!

 

At that point a little bit of dust in the action is the least he'd be worried about.

I like how some guys say you don't need a cleaning rod in your AK... as the C39 and RAS47 don't come with one. It seemed to have saved his but in this instance.

Bad ammo, but I could be wrong.

Shitty ammo.

ammo or/and dirty chamber

I like how some guys say you don't need a cleaning rod in your AK... as the C39 and RAS47 don't come with one. It seemed to have saved his but in this instance.

When Century made AK's become must follow model AK's? My Arsenal does have rod.

I think the guy handled the malfunction well. He did what he needed to do in order to get the gun functional and he did it in a very efficient manner considering the situation he was in.

I think more attention needs to be put on his teammate firing an RPG right over him. God damn.

 

It could have been a few issues but either way, I agree with carl_g. He handled the situation well and resolved the problem fairly smooth with rounds being shot at them. I wouldn't worry about the internals getting a little sandy.