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Bolt face goes way back behind the rearmost part of the port. Isn't that normal?
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No, and again, face of bolt with full charging handle pull should end up with the face of the bolt about 1/8"~1/4" in front of the back edge of the ejection port. So something is wrong with length of buffer in play.
https://www.vltor.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/vltor-a5-buffer-03.jpgSo if you are using a standard length H buffer, isntead of the longer Vltor A5 buffers, then will need to make a shim to put down the receiver extension, before the short standard H buffer and recoil are used. You could use quarters (lot of them if you need more rear weight, but would be better off with a piece of Delrin plastic cut to length to make the needed back of receiver extension buffer spacer.
The low down why we want at least 1/8", is that the buffer bumper will compress during recoil, and as the bolt comes back and stalls the bolt at the back of stroke, we need the ejector to cleanly push the spent case off the extractor/off the bolt face cleanly out the ejection port window. When the bolt face retracts behind the back of ejection port back edge, then as spent case is being ejected off the bolt face at rear buffer stall, it will tag the back of window edge, and some causes, be defected off the ejection port back edge and right back into the action.
So really, does not sound like it the ejection port cover the problem, but the bolt retracting back past the back of ejection port edge isntead.
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Now the disclaimer, and if you have a DPMS 308 G2 short action, or DPMS 308 standard length action, but using the slab side upper that does not have the dust cover, both of these rigs will end up with the face of bolt behind the back of ejection port rear edge.
In the case of the slab side,
you mill the back of ejection window back to solve the problem.
IN regards to the DPMS short action 308 (G2) since that action is designed for the bolt face to retract past the back edge of the ejection port window and the bolt catch is farther back as well, its a tweak game with the bolt ejector springs, so the case is ejected more forward, instead of complete sideways pivot off the bolt face into the back side of the ejection port window during the rear stall isntead.