AR-15 Jam

[nedmoore]

Please help! My AR-15 jammed today and has a live round stuck in the chamber! I can't budge the charging stick. Any help? Stuck in Houston!

[bdickens]

Try putting a liberal amount of penetrating oil down the barrel and letting it soak for awhile. Then bang the buttstock on a hard surface while pulling on the charging handle. Do it somewhere safe.

What kind of ammo were you using?

[KaiserB]

You may have had a case separation on the previous round and now have a cartridge jammed in the old case-half.

[WillieD]

Remove the lower and see if you can get a flathead screwdriver between a gap in the upper receiver and the carrier and try to pull it back. I had a similar thing happen a few months back and we could not make it budge with the charging handle or the forward assist. When we removed the lower and did this the BCG came out smoothly practically no effort and I did not have any more problems. It is amazing what a little bit of leverage can do.


In my case it was a round of Silver Bear that just fed wrong, and somehow got jammed up in there and wouldn't allow anything to move.

[nedmoore]

Screwdriver method worked fine, hardly any effort, thanks.

[WarHawk-AVG]

P.S. In the Marines had a stuck brass...it was a "training exercise" with blanks

a. Remove mag
b. Smack rifle butt on ground vertically very hard (if the extractor isn't broken it will snatch any bad round out and eject it

I was in simulated "combat" so I didn't have the luxury of getting a screwdriver out...we used to use/abuse our M-16A2 and they kept on trucking!

In that situation it was, "click" no bang, attempt tap, rack,bang, rifle went tap, no rack, no bang. so I smacked it, ejected stuck round, chambered new round, put rifle in shoulder. bang bang bang.

Only time I had problems with my M-16A2 was when I fired blanks...live ammo it ate everything and kept on firing! In the 5 years I had it, it never gave me a problem unless it was shooting blanks

[dukalmighty]

P.S. In the Marines had a stuck brass...it was a "training exercise" with blanks

a. Remove mag
b. Smack rifle butt on ground vertically very hard (if the extractor isn't broken it will snatch any bad round out and eject it

I was in simulated "combat" so I didn't have the luxury of getting a screwdriver out...we used to use/abuse our M-16A2 and they kept on trucking!

In that situation it was, "click" no bang, attempt tap, rack,bang, rifle went tap, no rack, no bang. so I smacked it, ejected stuck round, chambered new round, put rifle in shoulder. bang bang bang.

Only time I had problems with my M-16A2 was when I fired blanks...live ammo it ate everything and kept on firing! In the 5 years I had it, it never gave me a problem unless it was shooting blanks

That method can crack a butt stock I know,the small flat blade screwdriver at the front of bolt carrier group and prying back will unstick most problems

[WarHawk-AVG]

In our advance drills we would get a running start and literally THROW ourselves to the ground holding our rifles in front as a catch to break our fall...it never cracked mine!

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