Quality Hardware - bolt not closing

[Tired Retired]

Question, did soldiers and officers carry a "bolt tool " with them in the field or just acquire another weapon?

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Wow, that paints some nightmare pictures for me... Its hard enough keeping up with the parts when you disassemble a bolt carrier on a AR in a tent... I can't imagine trying to find a carbine extractor plunger in the field

[Curt]

I wonder if the round was fed out of the mag or the shell was pushed in the chamber and the bolt closed on it? I know extractors will snap over a rim most times but is not really how they were designed to operate.