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Posted: 5/6/2014 12:09:35 AM EDT
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I dry cycled a round the other day at the range for practice, and when I hit the charging handle, the round did not eject, and another round got pushed into it causing a jam. This happened about 30 percent of the time as I kept trying it with different rounds and ammo. Has this happened to anybody else? The rifle cycles and runs fine when operating normally. It's just extracting live rounds with the CH that causes the jams.
I remedied this by really letting the charging handle fly extra aggressively, but shouldn't live rounds eject even with very little pull on the CH? Is it proper to use an extra-heavy pull for clearing live rounds while running drills? |
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Quoted: It's just extracting live rounds with the CH that causes the jams. Is it proper to use an extra-heavy pull for clearing live rounds while running drills? 2. what drills are u running that use "less than normal force" when clearing a malf? |
| Here's the problem; you are easing the charging handle down instead of letting it fly. This is a major issue on any self-loading weapon - you always let the bolt or slide fly when loading. The results of easing it down is the extractor does not go over the case rim and the bolt is not fully locked. When you draw back the charging handle, you get no extraction because the extractor claw was not engaged with the case rim. When you want to do this, either use dummy rounds (any reloader will make you some out of fired cases) or only do it with the muzzle pointed in a safe place where a shot won't do any harm. The drill is, lock in a loaded mag. Hit the bolt release and load a round. Yank the charging handle to extract/eject the round then let it go to fly home and load another round. This is how you check your mags and the basic loading/extraction/ejection cycle. |
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