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  • COWBOYKIDD
    Took it out shooting today. I put about twenty rounds through it, worked fine as always. I load a mag of 10 rounds and give it to a friend to shoot while I go off to work on the cabin with his brother. I hear about 4 or 5 shots then maybe a muffled shot?, then nothing. I wasn't paying close attention to it but something didn't sound right. He calls me over and he's pulling on the bolt but a new cartridge won't feed. I try a couple times then it hits me. I open it up, take out the bolt and firing pin and, yep, can't see down the barrel. A bullet is now lodged about an inch and a half into the barrel. Another half inch and he would have fired the next round with extremely unpleasant consequences. Thank God nobody got hurt out of it.
    The ammo was Wolf 122 gr. HP.
    Has anybody had this happen to them?
    Can I remove the bullet, and how, or should this be done by a gunsmith?
    Could this have damaged the barrel making the gun unsafe?
    Thanks for the help,
    Rob
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  • prebanfan
    On gunbroker you could probably get in the ballpark of $250.00 for it. SKS's are high on auction sites. You can get them here in the south, at a gun show or flea market for $150.00 to $200.00 each (chinese). Also add about another $20-30 dollars to the price because you have the extra clips. As with a lot of guns, value will differ depending on location. You pretty much found out everything you could about the rifle. Some prefer threaded over pinned barrel but I can't tell a bit of difference personally.
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