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A little related to the topic, my 12.5 mid length was having FTE on the Tula ammo. The spent case is then stuck in the chamber and I have to punch it out with a rod. I then noticed the rim of the casing would be chipped , breaking when trying to be extracted. Related to gas tuning?
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No, Tula ammo is steel case with Poly or lacquer coating on it to keep the cases from rusting, so you have a problem with either the chamber not being chamber brush scrubbed cleaned with CLP by hand, then dried with dry patches, before the rifle is first shot, and then scrubbed again every cleaning.
Or, chamber surface not mirror smooth finished, but reamer chattered to hell instead.
Hence if you can run brass case ammo, but not the steel case, then chamber could just be on the tighter side, slightly rougher side, and may just take some break in with brass case ammo until the chamber walls do self polish out enough from life fire to run the steel case ammo.
And yes, chamber has to be chamber brush scrubbed with CLP by hand, since its the chamber brush that is removing the poly or lacquer powderized fouling coming from the Steel case ammo, since there is not a standard cleaning agent that you can use on the rifle that will disolve that powderized fouling, and not melt the plastic butt stock/forearm/pistol grip right off the rifle at the same time.
As for the CLP your using for the chamber scrubbing, it just suspending the fouling as you scrub out the debris off the chamber walls, and will be removed when you run the clean patches and Q tips to clean the barrel extension void areas.
As for steel case ammo once the rifle has been cleaned and lubed on the wetter side correctly with CLP, if the rifle does get to the point that the case are stuck to the chamber walls, spent case left in the chamber as the extractor slips off the rim, then it time to clean the chamber again. Running the upper bearing surfaces a tad wetter with CLP will help with the steel case ammo.
Also to note, if you are using Hoppe's cleaning solvent on the rifle, stop using it. It leaves a protective coating behind, and this coating will collect the poly/laquer powderized fouling that is being scrapped off the case even faster. So bore itself gets cleaned with something like Sweets that will not leave a protective coating behind, then CLP and chamber brush used to clean the chamber section of the barrel, with the fouled CLP pushed from chamber to muzzle out of the rifle. Even when you think that you have the chamber and bore dry, there is enough rements of CLP still on the surfaces for short term storage of the rig to prevent rusting. The rest of the rifle, cleaned first CLP, that Fouled CLP wiped away, then upper receiver bearing areas get a light coat of CLP to lube the the rifle.
So simply, it a clean and lubing problem to start with, or could be a rougher than normal chamber isntead. 99% of the time if you can not see reamer grooving in the chamber once cleaned, it the cleaning and lubing you are doing wrong instead (technique or wrong solvents and lube).
Note, CLP has a cleaning agent in it.