Originally Posted by
Hardcast416taylor
RED LIGHT ALERT! WARNING - WARNING!!! Check the chamber for rust and pitting. A friend of mine bought a very nice looking - on the outside - M-1 from the CMP. He cleaned it up and took some factory ammo out to shoot. The 1st round hung up in the chamber ripping off the case rim! He cleared the case with a cleaning rod. The case looked like it had the worst case of chickens pox you ever saw! The chamber needed to be reamed with a chamber reamer to make it accept and eject fired rounds. Now he can only get 1 - 2 loadings from his brass. Corrosive rounds obviously had been used it this M-1 and poor chamber cleaning maintence. So if they look nice on the outside, look on the inside.Robert