Went shooting today. Last time I went shooting I put a few rounds through my Bushmaster Dissipator, and I had a few weird malfunctions. It appeared to be caused by the ejector, I cleaned it exactly like the marine core manual discribed, and thought that would take care of it.
WRONG!
Went out today, bang, bang, jam, over and over again.
The malfunction looked like this, the fired case would still be under the extractor, an unfired shell has been stripped from the magazine, both have been shoved against the chamber.
The only way to clear it was to drop the magazine, pull the bolt back, flick out the spent case, usually with my finger, and let the live one drop out through the mag well.
The gun is clean, and correctly lubed. It has a few thousand rounds through it. It has never had this problem before. It is not ammo related, three different brands where tried today, all sucked. It is not magazine related, I used the two mags I was using in my friends Bushmaster, and they worked just fine.
If I take the bolt out of the gun, and place a fired casing under the extractor, and pull it back into the ejector it will flick it cleanly.
I fired it from my hip so I could watch it eject, usually my gun kicks them out back and to the side very consistently about six feet. Today it would do that once in a while, and other times it would kick the spent casings out just to the side, about a foot or two.
So I'm confused. Is it my ejector, is it broken, and if so how do I fix it? Any other ideas (besides buy a FAL, I know that suggestion is coming).
By the way, this is for George Hill, he gave me the last of his .223 when he got rid of his Bushmaster that was possesed by evil spirits, I think that the choking AR curse was then passed onto my gun.
Man, I'm sad, I think bad thoughts about this gun and I feel guilty like I'm thinking bad thoughts about a close family member. Help!
WRONG!
Went out today, bang, bang, jam, over and over again.
The malfunction looked like this, the fired case would still be under the extractor, an unfired shell has been stripped from the magazine, both have been shoved against the chamber.
The only way to clear it was to drop the magazine, pull the bolt back, flick out the spent case, usually with my finger, and let the live one drop out through the mag well.
The gun is clean, and correctly lubed. It has a few thousand rounds through it. It has never had this problem before. It is not ammo related, three different brands where tried today, all sucked. It is not magazine related, I used the two mags I was using in my friends Bushmaster, and they worked just fine.
If I take the bolt out of the gun, and place a fired casing under the extractor, and pull it back into the ejector it will flick it cleanly.
I fired it from my hip so I could watch it eject, usually my gun kicks them out back and to the side very consistently about six feet. Today it would do that once in a while, and other times it would kick the spent casings out just to the side, about a foot or two.
So I'm confused. Is it my ejector, is it broken, and if so how do I fix it? Any other ideas (besides buy a FAL, I know that suggestion is coming).
By the way, this is for George Hill, he gave me the last of his .223 when he got rid of his Bushmaster that was possesed by evil spirits, I think that the choking AR curse was then passed onto my gun.
Man, I'm sad, I think bad thoughts about this gun and I feel guilty like I'm thinking bad thoughts about a close family member. Help!