I took my AR out to the range the other day and she was a one hitter quitter. It would fire only one to two rounds before malfunctioning. I think I have troubleshot my problems but since I am not very experienced yet in the wonderful world of AR's I wanted to run it by you fine guys and gals here and get your input.
I was having problems with the fired round "sticking" causing the case's rim to be ripped by the extractor and a fresh round to double feed. I think I have narrowed the problem down to one of two things, or a combination of both. I either did not clean my chamber well enough from the last time I shot it(I'm going to buy a AR chamber brush in the near future), or it was ran not wet enough. Perusing the interwebs I heard/read a lot about over pressured ammo, but since I was shooting factory ammo and this is mostly an issue with reloads I don't think that was the issue, not that it couldn't happen...
I am hoping it is one of the above issues instead of something that needs some fixing/tuning(thinking extractor). I have included some pictures to make it easier to help me! Thanks DELOC
Ripped rim:
I ended up with a few of these:
I was having problems with the fired round "sticking" causing the case's rim to be ripped by the extractor and a fresh round to double feed. I think I have narrowed the problem down to one of two things, or a combination of both. I either did not clean my chamber well enough from the last time I shot it(I'm going to buy a AR chamber brush in the near future), or it was ran not wet enough. Perusing the interwebs I heard/read a lot about over pressured ammo, but since I was shooting factory ammo and this is mostly an issue with reloads I don't think that was the issue, not that it couldn't happen...
I am hoping it is one of the above issues instead of something that needs some fixing/tuning(thinking extractor). I have included some pictures to make it easier to help me! Thanks DELOC
Ripped rim:
I ended up with a few of these:
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