AK FTF

[Andyshowfan]

I just had 2 ftf out of 4 shots with my WASR 10 I looked at the bullet and there was an indention on it. I'm new to ak's so any advice is greatly appreciated

[Smith]

Pictures would be nice. You may need to adjust the firing pin or get a new one all together. The other possibility is a new hammer spring.

[Andyshowfan]

Picture of?

[Smith]

Picture of?

Ammo. Are you getting light strikes or something else? I'm not sure what you mean by the case being indendented.

[Andyshowfan]

[Andyshowfan]

Best I could do

[Smith]

Looks pretty good. You might just have had some bad ammo. How many rounds have you run through your AK?

[Andyshowfan]

Personally 4 (today) lol

[Smith]

I'm leaning towards ammo as Wolf is known to have hard primers, but usually the AK spring handles them well. May just need a new spring. Can you take a picture of you bolt face with the firing pin showing?

[Andyshowfan]

[Andyshowfan]

Firing pin extended

[Andyshowfan]

Smith, try this one. I am having a lot of trouble with flickr and photobucket here at work (they are both semi-banned/blocked) This should take you to a full size picture.

[Smith]

Firing pins good. Shoot some more. If you have any more problems get a new hammer spring.

[seez52]

Make sure the bolt is going all the way home, if it's not completely in battery the hammer might not get a good whack on the firing pin. Lube up the rails. Check bolt movement with the magazine in and with it out. If there's a difference between the two then you got mag. feed lip friction problems. This is more prevalent on the aftermarket plastic mags than on surplus metal mags. I've had to work on all my plastic mags to get them tuned in. Some even caused double taps.

[bigwakes]

First thing I would try is a new mag. Second thing is new ammo. The strike on the primer looks solid, so I'm not thinking a spring issue.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Pictures would be nice. You may need to adjust the firing pin or get a new one all together. The other possibility is a new hammer spring.

Please explain the adjustment of an AK firing pin.

Never knew they were adjustable. I will admit I am not th expert with AK's some people are. I have been around a lot of AK's during my time overseas but never heard of adjusting a firing pin.

• I would try US made ammo to rule out ammo.
  
• If it is still doing the same thing then I would give it a good cleaning, especially the bolt. Try soaking it in carb cleaner, kerosene or fuel treatment over night then spray it out with non-chlorinated brake cleaner.
  
• If that doesn't correct it I would try a new hammer spring.
  
• After that I would have a smith check headspace. The chamber may be out of spec enough to allow the cartridge to move forward as it is struck and cushion the strike enough to cause a misfire.
  

Dolomite

[Smith]

Please explain the adjustment of an AK firing pin.

Never knew they were adjustable. I will admit I am not th expert with AK's some people are. I have been around a lot of AK's during my time overseas but never heard of adjusting a firing pin.

Dolomite

Technically you can't but by headspacing essentially you can. By the nature of the question, I thought I was simplifying the answer. I doubt it is that however, and probably ammo, mag, or spring related.

[Andyshowfan]

Metal mags solved my problems