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In my mind, this is about the only thing that seems somewhat plausible given the facts we have in this thread.
My mind keeps going back to OP’s first attempt to fire the gun.
OP, when you said “nothing ejected” after you removed the first magazine and opened the bolt, did you visually and tactilely examine the chamber?
One of the problems with steel cased ammunition is that the grey cartridge doesn’t really stand out against the grey/black metal of the gun.
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One round in the chamber with a second getting double fed into the primer of the first to make the first round go boom?
In my mind, this is about the only thing that seems somewhat plausible given the facts we have in this thread.
My mind keeps going back to OP’s first attempt to fire the gun.
OP, when you said “nothing ejected” after you removed the first magazine and opened the bolt, did you visually and tactilely examine the chamber?
One of the problems with steel cased ammunition is that the grey cartridge doesn’t really stand out against the grey/black metal of the gun.
I did visual inspection, but did not do a tactile examination. I think this is what set up the problem.
In the past couple of days I got new extractor springs and installed one with the old extractor to see what would happen.
When manually cycling the action with snap caps, there are times when a round is stripped and chambered, but the bolt does not fully seat. This would happen less often with the HK slap, but did still occur at least once post-slap. When pulling back the bolt, there were also occasions where the round was not extracted from the chamber by pulling back the charging handle. This of occurred when the bolt did not fully seat, but also happened at least once or twice when the bolt was fully seated and the charging handle was pulled back with force (trying to imitate recoil action).
My thought, as Red stated, is that a round was chambered and the bolt did not fully seat (thus no initial bang). When I worked the action and no round ejected, I missed it during the visual inspection and I didn't move the gun enough for it to fall out of the chamber (keeping the gun pointed down range in a safe direction). If that were accurate, then once I replaced the mag and hit the charging handle, a round was stripped and forced into the primer of the chambered round. Seems plausible?
My plan, at this point, is to thoroughly clean it, and see if the problem persists. Regardless of whether the problem persists post cleaning, I'll contact PTR and see what they advise.