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Posted: 2/8/2010 7:15:13 PM EDT
| When I pull the charging handle with my bolt forward and a loaded Magazine, the charging handle does not spring forward when I let go. Is this normal, to have to push it back into place. If not, how do I fix it? Thanks. |
| OP, are you sure that the bolt is not locked back as you are pulling the CH. If the bolt is forward in the locked position, the BCG should ride along all the way to the back and when you release the CH it should snap back and strip a round from the mag and load it in to the chamber. |
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Quoted: OP, are you sure that the bolt is not locked back as you are pulling the CH. If the bolt is forward in the locked position, the BCG should ride along all the way to the back and when you release the CH it should snap back and strip a round from the mag and load it in to the chamber. This. Otherwise the only wild-ass guess I have is that you've got a somehow out-of-spec bolt catch. |
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I'm positive it is in the forward position. When the BCG slides to the rear it locks in place. What you are describing is normal if you have inserted an empty mag into the AR and you pull the CH back. The BCG will lock back and you will need to push the CH forward into the locked position. That will not happen during live fire. During live fire the BCG will just lock back. |
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Yup Quoted: Quoted: OP, are you sure that the bolt is not locked back as you are pulling the CH. If the bolt is forward in the locked position, the BCG should ride along all the way to the back and when you release the CH it should snap back and strip a round from the mag and load it in to the chamber. This. Otherwise the only wild-ass guess I have is that you've got a somehow out-of-spec bolt catch. |
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sounds like user error to me. Wow, I feel pretty stupid right now. I was charging it slow because my kid is asleep and didn't want to wake him, so it wasn't going forward when I released it. But I said screw it and pulled it back quick and it flew forward. Whew. Sorry fellas. Thanks for all the help. |
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Quoted: Quoted: sounds like user error to me. Wow, I feel pretty stupid right now. I was charging it slow because my kid is asleep and didn't want to wake him, so it wasn't going forward when I released it. But I said screw it and pulled it back quick and it flew forward. Whew. Sorry fellas. Thanks for all the help. Whoops!  |
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sounds like user error to me. Wow, I feel pretty stupid right now. I was charging it slow because my kid is asleep and didn't want to wake him, so it wasn't going forward when I released it. But I said screw it and pulled it back quick and it flew forward. Whew. Sorry fellas. Thanks for all the help. haha, i did the same thing when i finished my build as the gf was sleeping. then i remembered something bout "riding the bolt", figured thats what people meant. hey, better to do something relatively silly like that than something absolutely stupid like an AD right? |
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