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  1. Thank eveyone for your input and time. I found I have not only wasted my money on this rifle but also lots of my time (shipping back and forth, test firing, searching for possible solutions myself, looking for help online, etc). I will not be able to stop by as often as before, and I will try to find a solution for my rifle using all the information I got on this board and elsewhere. I wish eveybody has a good one when you buy your next rifle, be it a Saiga, Browning, Remington, whatever you like.
  2. One reason why I can't understand why someone would buy this gun solely with the intent of using corrosive ammunition. Buy a mosin if you want to deal with all that crap, much easier to pour some water down the bore and be done with it. With a gas gun, you're looking at one hell of a mess to clean, none the less with wood furniture thrown into the mix. I really can't picture this rifle being designed to run surplus ammunition. It's a russian hunting rifle... Unlikely that most people who would have interest in a 5 shot hunting rifle would buy it to blow spam cans away dirt shooting all
  3. Thank you for the point. I wish Wolf's supposed gun smith had made this point to me and explained why the rifle had those abnoraml wear and free play at its key parts. BTW, I have Saiga, as I mentioned earlier. They function smoothly wthout a single problem from day one.
  4. Thank you for the points. The abnormal wear on the ejector tip was there before the rifle was shipped back to Wolf; they only "adjusted" the "ejection rail". The bolt head came with rust on it, not after I shot it. I am a guy liking oiling my gun as often as possible. I cleaned and oiled the rifle as soon as I received it.
  5. Thanks for the info. When I bought the Vepr 54r, I had been thinking using the military surplus ammo alreay. If Molot stated 54r Vepr only eats commercial ammo but not military ammo, I would absolutely have not bought it. If I still wanted a Vepr, I would have then had likely bought the .308 for saving 100 bucks. Fortunatelly, the supposed gun smith at Wolf didn't suggest me to use brass ammo (even not various brass ammos). Otherwise, I'd be in big trouble in test firing my Vepr. I will try to save money in the coming months to buy various steel ammos for test firing it, if I cannot have
  6. I seriously wish you had been the supposed gun smith at Wolf who handled my rifle. He only told me to try "steel ammo", which I did. He never told me he tried various ammos without FTEs. He never told me either to try various steel ammos, although he had the rifle and checked it personally. Now he's not responding after I sent in the new FTE info. BTW, what's your opinion on the abnormally worn ejector tip? How can it be fixed? And what about the big free play between the ejector and its slot on the bolt head? I also wonder why there were no jams for the first 39 shots of the same ammo af
  7. Thank you for the info. But the ejector tip of my Vepr was not like this when I received the rifle (I cleaned it as soon as I received it): the tip is actually getting rounded by the used case at this early stage use of this rifle. As I explained earlier, I doubt it's a ammo thing. The rifle must be out of specifications in some of its parts. WPA does not respond likely because they know a out-of-specification rifle is time-consuming and costly (e.g., ammo money) to diagnose and fix: they could not or were not willing to diagnose and fix this FTE problem when the rifle was back with them.
  8. As I explained in the other reply, I don't think it's a ammo thing. Also look at the abnormal wear on the ejection tip of this Vepr: it's getting rounded after just above 300 rounds. My other Aks do not have this phenomenon either. Aslo check drhobo's post on this board. He used different ammos and his Vepr failed to eject anyway.
  9. Thank you for your suggesions. I used one of the finest suplus russian ammo advertised by the seller "7.62x54R Russian Military Surplus ammo 1976 Factory 188 in Wood Crate" . Nobody else complained about this ammo as I know. In addition, the first 39 rounds was ejected more or less normally after Wolf "adjusted" the "ejection rail", but then it became noraml as a FTE rifle. I also compared the free play between the ejector and the ejector slot on the bolt head of this rifle with that of a smooth functioning Saiga AK: this rifle has a much bigger free play, as shown in the pictures (pic1 for
  10. Yes, it happened with two new OEM magazines. I used one of the finest surplus ammo advertised by the seller "7.62x54R Russian Military Surplus ammo 1976 Factory 188 in Wood Crate".
  11. Did you have any other FTEs later? Anyway you got the hunter version; mine is regular. Mine has a serious FTE problem. Wolf could not fix it and are not responding to me so far.
  12. I wonder if the ejection problem of your vepr is fixed. I have the same problem with my new VEPR too. I sent it to Wolf but I received it back with the same problem. Now they are not even responding to me!!!!! The details of the FTE problem of my Vepr is here: http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?/topic/82391-vepr-54r-problem-fte/
  13. I bought a new vepr 54r from Centerfire Systems recently and it has the failing to eject (FTE) problem from day one I shot it. I sent it back to Wolf for a fix a few weeks ago. The gun smith at Wolf found no damaged or mis-assembled parts with the rifle and adjusted the "ejection rail". I received the rifle back on Thursday last week and test fired it on Friday with 120 rounds. I got 5 FTEs, as shown in the pictures. I noticed that the rifle's ejections had no consistency in distance and angle. In addition, some of the used cases were badly deformed or marked at multiple spots. I sent th
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