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Posted: 8/31/2008 10:38:55 AM EDT
| Just got through bore sighting my rilfe in went to the pit where i shoot . when i purchased the rifle from spike at the tampa gun show i purchased a box of hornady 110 v-max cartridges and a box of remington 115gr mc cartridges. To make a long story short the hornadys shot perfect but when i loaded up the remingtons and shot it fired alrightand ejected the shell ok but the shell jammed and pushed the bullet further in the case?? I tried 3 times it did the same thing over and over . I went back to the hornadys and they shot fine what's the problem.. Just ordered remington brass and sierra 110gr spt bullets for reloading my own . Should i've ordered some kind of tipped bullets instead ??? my AR is a stag upper and spikes lower |
Please elaborate on that one. You just said it "ejected ok" but "the shell jammed". If the spent case jammed, then it did not eject properly. |
Mine looked like the one marked ok till I cut them.
FYI in the future order Silver State Armory (SSA) brass. It's far better quality and uses small primers. You'll get better results. However, I'd suggest tightening up the bolt catch 1 turn (push the magazine release button ALL the way and on the other side of the lower rotate the magazine catch 1 full turn clockwise. One of my 6.8s has no extended feed ramps and it feeds Remington FMJs just fine from my PRI and C-Products magazines. |
Stay way from the Remington 6.8 MC ammo specifically. It some of the worst factory ammo I have ever seen; reliably was poor and and even for non-match ammo, accuracy was even poorer. My last 2 cases I shot up in CQB drills and malfunction drills. My 6.8s are from MSTN and LMT CQB MRPs, so it is not the necessarily your carbine. I only run the Hornady OTM,s and more recent SSA 115gr SMK loading now. Edited to correct a typo. |
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