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Posted: 2/24/2015 8:00:35 PM EDT
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The setup: Caliber: 300 BLK Upper: Anchor Harvey Lower: Palmetto State Armory Magazine: PMAG Gen M3 (10 round) Bolt group: PTAC Whenever I try to feed a magazine in on a closed bolt, the top two rounds get vertically criss-crossed. Has anyone else had this? I'm hoping I can just blame the PTAC BCG and get a new carrier. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMBOFnH6rEE |
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Well I got sick and tired of living in fear over this, so I finally just tore the insides out of my lower, reassembled the two receivers together, and chambered a bunch of rounds. Good news: Absolutely ZERO failures to feed. Bad news: The top two cartridges seem to have lost their crimp. They wiggle and smell like gunpowder. |
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In order for the cartridges to be jammed side x side like that, the top of the magazine has to spread. This is very destructive for the magazine and is not conducive to your survival in a gunfight if this happens when you do a 'tactical reload'. You most likely will have to down-load the mags by at least two rounds and/or cease loading against the closed carrier. I would simply not figure on doing the 'tactical reload', which is the only time it is required to lock in a loaded magazine against the closed carrier. At all other times of loading, you can lock in a mag with the bolt locked open. |
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