Posted: 10/26/2007 2:07:18 PM EDT
| I shot my AR last weekend. Twice it fed a round but the round did not fire. I took all the necessary precautions, rap, tap, bang and nothing. I ejected the rounds, fed them manually and they fired. Also once the hammer failed to reset. It shot great after all of that. I put maybe another 100 rounds thru it and had no probs. Any ideas? |
| this stuff was 45 grain hollow point I bought at a local gun shop. They were out of milspec 55 grain. That could have been the problem I guess. Do you think the gas tube is getting filthy? How do you clean it if that's it? Or should I just make sure it is milspec from now on? |
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Don't try to clean your gas tube. Bad idea it's a self cleaning part it gets hot high pressure gas blown through it every time you shoot it just doesn't need cleaning.......... most likely an ammo issue if you ran a 100rnds threw it with no more problems...... was the ammo reloads?? Best thing to do is shoot it some more and test it out 
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Gas tubes don't need to be cleaned. |
Take our your recoil buffer and spring. Make sure the housing is clean, free of grit and grime. I worked on an AR that belonged to a friend's buddy who had never cleaned or lubed the buttstock tube and recoil spring. It was gritted up to beat the band. He had problems with the AR before that, none after. But your problem is 99% probably the ammo. It's that other 1% that can drive you crazy. |
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Probly wasn't the ammo. WOLF ammo is the finest surplus ammo out there. Then again, even the mighty Wolf could have a bad primer or two in thier batch. Wolf is my AR's favorite along with bein my AK's favorite as well for quite a while now. Plus it shoots pretty darn consistant as well!!
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Thats not a problem with an AR ,but could be a problem with a say rem 700 in .223 Rem! looks like you worked past your problem,when you clean your weapon make sure you don't let oil get into your chamber! Bob 
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