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Posted: 7/12/2003 6:59:26 PM EDT
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I just bought a pre-ban olympic arms CAR but there is one problem, the bolt carrier is pretty rough. It looks like like it jammed and someone took a screwdriver and hammer to it. My question is; Which is better to replace, just the carrier or the whole bolt/carrier assembly? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks |
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I would just replace the carrier itself for two reasons, 1. Cheaper 2. The bolt is "mated" to the barrel, a new bolt may have head spacing problems if the rifle has been fired quite a bit. As for what caused the scratches, I'm not going to guess, since I haven't seen the damage. It coud be from prying the bolt open, to having been dropped. |
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I reloaded some PMP ammo that caused me some massive problems...it jammed every gun I tried it in, including my bolt rifle!! Even though the case looked good, had been full length resized, and checked out in a case gauge, it still was too damn big. I though I weeded it all out, but I got a couple of straglers stuck really bad. We had to take a mondo screwdriver and pry the bolt back from the mag well. It put some very small scratches on the bottom of the carrier, but not enough to make any difference. |
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