jstyer
02-26-2012, 10:02 AM
Hey folks,
I recently put together a 14.5" middy rifle and it's been loads of fun. I've cycled 840 rounds of M855 through it and it's been flawless.
The other day I was taking a new shooter out and he wanted to try my AR why we were there. I was out of brass cased ammo and had some 62gr wolf HP lying around that I tossed in. I'd never shot this ammo through the gun before and was worried that the midlength system on a 14" barrel might not cycle the lower powered wolf rounds.
I loaded up a magazine for the new shooter and let him have at it. The first round ejected, but short stroked and did not load a second round. I re-charged the gun for him, and his next two rounds were both FTE. This led me to think, "well I guess the gun doesn't like steel".
However, just for kicks I inserted the remainder of the magazine (27 rounds) and tried to fire it myself. I went through all 27 without a hiccup. I loaded one more full magazine of steel and tried again. Once again, all thirty rounds no problem. Thinking it was just an issue with those first couple rounds, I let the new shooter try the gun again. Once again immediately he started having malfunctions. I don't think the rifle went through a full cycle of the action once.
So I ask you all this: Is it possible that this new shooter was soft shouldering the rifle and not giving the gun a good surface to operate against? Because in this instance the malfunctions stopped as soon as a shooter with a good forward leaning stance operated the gun. I look forward to testing this some more the next time I get to go shoot some rifles.
Any thoughts? Is "limp shouldering" real?
p.s Don't worry about the new guy. I paid for some ridiculously overpriced range ammo so he could get his Rambo on. Also, did you know that on a Motorola 'Rambo' is auto corrected to tambourine?
p.p.s. I had no idea going into it that this post was going to be so long. So apologies for that. But I paid the price, my thumbs are killing me!
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I recently put together a 14.5" middy rifle and it's been loads of fun. I've cycled 840 rounds of M855 through it and it's been flawless.
The other day I was taking a new shooter out and he wanted to try my AR why we were there. I was out of brass cased ammo and had some 62gr wolf HP lying around that I tossed in. I'd never shot this ammo through the gun before and was worried that the midlength system on a 14" barrel might not cycle the lower powered wolf rounds.
I loaded up a magazine for the new shooter and let him have at it. The first round ejected, but short stroked and did not load a second round. I re-charged the gun for him, and his next two rounds were both FTE. This led me to think, "well I guess the gun doesn't like steel".
However, just for kicks I inserted the remainder of the magazine (27 rounds) and tried to fire it myself. I went through all 27 without a hiccup. I loaded one more full magazine of steel and tried again. Once again, all thirty rounds no problem. Thinking it was just an issue with those first couple rounds, I let the new shooter try the gun again. Once again immediately he started having malfunctions. I don't think the rifle went through a full cycle of the action once.
So I ask you all this: Is it possible that this new shooter was soft shouldering the rifle and not giving the gun a good surface to operate against? Because in this instance the malfunctions stopped as soon as a shooter with a good forward leaning stance operated the gun. I look forward to testing this some more the next time I get to go shoot some rifles.
Any thoughts? Is "limp shouldering" real?
p.s Don't worry about the new guy. I paid for some ridiculously overpriced range ammo so he could get his Rambo on. Also, did you know that on a Motorola 'Rambo' is auto corrected to tambourine?
p.p.s. I had no idea going into it that this post was going to be so long. So apologies for that. But I paid the price, my thumbs are killing me!
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