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JBaum wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 6:23 pm

joe6167 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 5:16 pm There were MG3's and .308 cans during World War 2?

Nobody said that. They're just talking about variations.

Exactly. So what's the confusion that requires such "clarification"?

There were MG3's and .308 cans during World War 2?

That's not my gun, that's from a gunshop here in Poland.

JBaum wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 11:45 am Try loading the actual video instead of a link to facebook.

If you're unable to do that, send a link to me and I'll see what I can do. Take out the <remove this> from my email address below.

Here's the link:

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1568632616915546

The video shows up for me...

Any thoughts on what caused the failure in this video?

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As you can see, the barrel just pops out!

Thanks. I finally got everything put back together. Mines tight just like you mention. The gun I bought came with an M53 stock but no guts in it. I now suspect that those are the guts in my MG42 stock and he didn't tighten them because they stuck just like you mention. I'll take another look and se...

Speaking of internals, on my M53, the locking mechanism that secures the butt stock to the buffer was REALLY tight, you couldn't just push the button by hand. Anyhow, I managed to get it all apart and it turns out the metal tab that locks into the notch on the buffer, was a little too wide, so I too...

And how!

Ok, I popped out the roller and found that it was getting caught on the corner of the "raceway". I took my honing stone to it and it's good to go now!

I didn't see any obvious damage, so perhaps it was just an issue of manufacturing tolerances being out of spec? (It's an M53).

In the bolt head itself. One moves freely but the other binds. It appears to be going into battery when the gun is dry-fired.

One of the rollers in the bolt on my gun binds, but the other moves freely. What says the forum?

Nice!

Thanks, I'll pass it on.

A fellow M53 owner in my neck of the woods posted these photos of the ruptured cases he was getting with his gun when using S&B ammo. As S&B is the most common type of ammo we've got around these parts, and I've stockpiled quite a bit of it, I'm curious to hear what the "brain trust" has to say on t...

Brilliant! Thanks

I'm just curious what the official ammo can capacity is. I keep seeing sources say 250, but I can't help but notice mine will fit 300, nice and tight, no rattling. Also, was there any specific technique for loading ammo cans? As I'm sure many of you have noticed, the rounds don't stack flat. I notic...

Nice!

Nice!

JBaum wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:22 pm An excellent thread on the scope mount block.

I just hope the board won't crash again and it gets erased...

Interesting. That's why I was surprised to see the Yugo proof marks on my tripod. I wonder if the Yugoslav army was actually using an optic with their M53s, or if they were just adding the mounts to their tripods due to "inertia", i.e. "the blueprints said 'optics mount goes here', so we added an op...