inerlogic
NES Member
ok, so here's what's been happening with this thing.... AWS Lower, Rifle buffer, tube and spring, A2 stock, spike's 16" upper, brand spanking new.
took the upper home, cleaned, lubed, inspected.... the gas rings were super tight, i could barely get the bolt out of the BC...
"flicking" the BCG, the bolt wouldn't extend....
i have 520 rounds through the upper (400 AE 5.56 XM193 and 120 PMC Bronze)
"flicking" is easier now, dis-assembly and reassembly still takes some effort (those rings are still tight)
to get through a 30 round magazine i'd have to rack the charging handle at least 4-5 times with the PMC, more like 3 times with the XM193....
the round fires, empty is ejected, the bolt strips off a round and then stops on it's was into battery.... the round doesn't appear to be getting caught on the feed ramps, but that's where it's stopping..... so, it's not short stroking, it's just not coming all the way back.....
i put the upper on my cousin's lower, he has a carbine length spring with an H2 buffer (lighter than the rifle buffer) and the thing ran fine....
(his upper on my lower would feed every round in the mag, except the last round..... the last round would get caught up, don't remember what make his upper is, think he picked it up at 4S, he says his upper is known for being over gassed.....)
so..... before i drop money i don't have on a new stock, buffer tube, spring and buffer.....
anyone else have an experience like this? i emails spike's and the guy that wrote me back was all "hey, if you're going to get a carbine tube, get our powdered buffer to combat bolt bounce"
they got the sales guys answering the tech emails over there?
anyone have a new spike's and run into this tight gas ring business? how many rounds should it take these things to break in?
the last AR type rifle i had was an M16A2 with tens of thousands of rounds through it.... so.. i don't know how new ones are supposed to act, and according to all the posts i've read on the AR forums (thanks google) the carbine should LOVE the rifle buffer and spring, shouldn't be an issue at all, blah blah yadda yadda.....
any help would be appreciated..... failing that.....
anyone wanna trade a massified 16" upper for a 20" HBAR?
took the upper home, cleaned, lubed, inspected.... the gas rings were super tight, i could barely get the bolt out of the BC...
"flicking" the BCG, the bolt wouldn't extend....
i have 520 rounds through the upper (400 AE 5.56 XM193 and 120 PMC Bronze)
"flicking" is easier now, dis-assembly and reassembly still takes some effort (those rings are still tight)
to get through a 30 round magazine i'd have to rack the charging handle at least 4-5 times with the PMC, more like 3 times with the XM193....
the round fires, empty is ejected, the bolt strips off a round and then stops on it's was into battery.... the round doesn't appear to be getting caught on the feed ramps, but that's where it's stopping..... so, it's not short stroking, it's just not coming all the way back.....
i put the upper on my cousin's lower, he has a carbine length spring with an H2 buffer (lighter than the rifle buffer) and the thing ran fine....
(his upper on my lower would feed every round in the mag, except the last round..... the last round would get caught up, don't remember what make his upper is, think he picked it up at 4S, he says his upper is known for being over gassed.....)
so..... before i drop money i don't have on a new stock, buffer tube, spring and buffer.....
anyone else have an experience like this? i emails spike's and the guy that wrote me back was all "hey, if you're going to get a carbine tube, get our powdered buffer to combat bolt bounce"
they got the sales guys answering the tech emails over there?
anyone have a new spike's and run into this tight gas ring business? how many rounds should it take these things to break in?
the last AR type rifle i had was an M16A2 with tens of thousands of rounds through it.... so.. i don't know how new ones are supposed to act, and according to all the posts i've read on the AR forums (thanks google) the carbine should LOVE the rifle buffer and spring, shouldn't be an issue at all, blah blah yadda yadda.....
any help would be appreciated..... failing that.....
anyone wanna trade a massified 16" upper for a 20" HBAR?
