Bolt failing to go into battery....HELPPP!!!!!

[jasper2408]

Genuinely curious here - have you seen a neck separate from the shoulder/body?

Why yes I have.

I used to go out to our local range and watch the city police qualify with their pistols and AR rifles so I could get free once fired Lake City brass. They let me pick it all up and take it home. Always got around 400 pieces of brass free. Anyway, one of the officers had a jam in his rifle where the armorer had to beat the bolt group back to get the next round out because it was jammed. Come to find out a neck had come off the previous fired round. This was new Lake City cartridges. The armorer said he like to never got the broken neck out. Had to use a tap to get it out. I have also seen new loaded retail cartridges with the neck rolled over and the bullet inserted with the double lip. This was on a Remington round. Wouldn't have wanted to fire that round. Luckily it was for a bolt gun so it was caught before being loaded.

Plus, just do a search on the Interweb and there are quite a few cases of just the neck breaking off from new retail ammo on bolt guns and auto rifles.