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How long is it taking you to get it hot enough to have the problem occur? I know you said 300 rounds, give or take, but how rapidly are you shooting them to get it "hot"? mag dumps, a lot of rounds over a prolonged range time, or something in between?
Did you clean the rifle (in particular the chamber) between having the failures and trying the PMC?
Ultimately, the goal would be to shoot enough of some other ammo to duplicate the problem (or get past the point where It started to act up with the Wolf), but I really don't want you to go to that expense if we can figure out some other potential cause than the ammo/ammo related.
Steve/RRA
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I'd say 2 or 3 seconds so before firing the next round. But I had 10, 30 round mags loaded up ready to go, so I was barely down in time between reloads. The gas tube/handguards had some smoke coming up from them and it didn't start malfunctioning until maybe 5 to 6 consecutive magazines. The range I go to prohibits mag dumping.
I did not clean the chamber between swapping ammo. If it helps, I can provide pictures of the brass later tonight to see if there's any scrapes or gouges. For the most part, the brass was still shiney with no "frost" to it as well.
Like I mentioned, just based on ejection patterns I am feeling it's overgassed, but just odd it happened after the rifle was heated up and not off the bat.
When the malfunction happened, the initial recoil felt normal, just no slam forward like when it chambers a round.
I wish I had more ammo to shoot of a different brand, but Wolf Gold is more affordable than others, and better than their Russian bi-metal steel cased.
Let me know what other info I can provide to help.