I was getting jams in my AR-15, took forever to figure out why. It was a build from back in the days of the “assault rifle” ban (what I called the flash hider ban). The barrel was something I just got off of a gun show table, who knows what this came from. Anyway it turned out the bottom of my chamber had rust in it, in a position that it was difficult to see. That made extraction difficult, the bolt carrier was not coming all the way back, etc.
This guy’s “mortaring” technique was the way I learned on M1As, and so forth. Looks like a good idea to collapse the buttstock down first, though.
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On March 13, 2020 at 1:36 pm, Paul Bonneau said:
I was getting jams in my AR-15, took forever to figure out why. It was a build from back in the days of the “assault rifle” ban (what I called the flash hider ban). The barrel was something I just got off of a gun show table, who knows what this came from. Anyway it turned out the bottom of my chamber had rust in it, in a position that it was difficult to see. That made extraction difficult, the bolt carrier was not coming all the way back, etc.
This guy’s “mortaring” technique was the way I learned on M1As, and so forth. Looks like a good idea to collapse the buttstock down first, though.