Troubleshooting this for a friend but I have the rifle in my possession. Its a seekins factory build that the 223 Wylde barrel was worn out in.
Replaced the Wylde barrel with a Craddock Precision/Bartlein 24” 1:7 twist rifle +2 gas. The gas port is about .080” as close as I can gauge it.
Using E-Lander Grendel magazines, the Seekins carrier and the bolt that came with the barrel from Craddock.
The Superlative gas block is set to full open, no restriction, no bleed off.
It won’t cycle reliably. Using Hornady white box 108gr ELD factory ammo, the H1 buffer seems to not let the bolt cycle back far enough to strip the next round off the magazine, so the fired brass ejects but the following round ends up pointing up into the chamber with the carrier resting against it.
Using a carbine buffer, itll cycle but doesn’t quite have enough juice to completely go into battery; the spent case is ejected, the new round is seated in the chamber but the bolt is resting against the case but out of battery. You can hammer the forward assist and it’ll pop over the case rim or drop the mag, pull and release the CH and it’ll go into battery.
I’m a little puzzled here. I don’t have a different brand magazine to try (but the E-Landers were supposedly top notch). It seems like a gas issue (the block is aligned correctly, I checked that) but I’m a little reluctant to open the port up yet until Im certain-ish that’s the problem
thanks for any suggestions or diagnosis help
Replaced the Wylde barrel with a Craddock Precision/Bartlein 24” 1:7 twist rifle +2 gas. The gas port is about .080” as close as I can gauge it.
Using E-Lander Grendel magazines, the Seekins carrier and the bolt that came with the barrel from Craddock.
The Superlative gas block is set to full open, no restriction, no bleed off.
It won’t cycle reliably. Using Hornady white box 108gr ELD factory ammo, the H1 buffer seems to not let the bolt cycle back far enough to strip the next round off the magazine, so the fired brass ejects but the following round ends up pointing up into the chamber with the carrier resting against it.
Using a carbine buffer, itll cycle but doesn’t quite have enough juice to completely go into battery; the spent case is ejected, the new round is seated in the chamber but the bolt is resting against the case but out of battery. You can hammer the forward assist and it’ll pop over the case rim or drop the mag, pull and release the CH and it’ll go into battery.
I’m a little puzzled here. I don’t have a different brand magazine to try (but the E-Landers were supposedly top notch). It seems like a gas issue (the block is aligned correctly, I checked that) but I’m a little reluctant to open the port up yet until Im certain-ish that’s the problem
thanks for any suggestions or diagnosis help
