ON the T56, smoke the hell out of bullet itself with a sharpie marker, and also the neck of the case as well.
Drop the round into the chamber by hand, walk the charging handle down, then use the FA to lock the bolt home.
Now remove the round, trying to prevent the tip of the bullet from getting scratch up by the barrel extension lugs on the way out, and see if the bullet is embedding into the rifling at loading, or if the last of the chamber reaming it too short for the ammo's case lengths (scrap marks in the sharpie smoking that you did the bullet before hand).
If the old surplus ammo is all tarnished up, them throw the live ammo into a media tumbler to polish the ammo/cases.
Hence the problem could be that the tarnish on the case is preventing a clean release of the spent cases from the chamber at unlock.
Note, I can't even begin to count the amount of Chilean 308 surplus ammo crates that I had to throw in a tumble to clean that crap up decades back, to just begin to check them for any cases that had corroded to the point that pitting on them was too deep, that you dare not firing some of them to begin with.
Hence, it came in a huge wooden crate that itself was on it last legs, that had paper boxes in the crate with no plastics seal'g of any kind, and pretty sure that when the stuff was boated into the states, instead of it being in the cargo hold, the just drug is in the water behind the ships instead (bad storage, and why it was suplused off and sold so cheap to begin with..
So the rounds on the bottom of the crate looked something like this,
Also, may be too much buffer mass for the ammo, and may need a lighter buffer instead for the surplus ammo.
To add, when buying surplus ammo, try to figure out what the country is surplussing it to begin with. In the case off say Port and such, it was because the country was moving ways from the 7.62 round, and selling off the extra surplus of ammo that had instead. With the Chilean ammo, that country had not yet moved into the 5.56 heavy yet at the time, and that 308 ammo was being surplussed off due to it being storage badly instead.