So my understanding was steel weight(s) go into the buffer before tungsten. Kinda like the alphabet, S before T. Gotta say though, my guess is that it matters about as much as putting the buffer spring in "backwards".
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To my understanding and according to the instructions Giessle sent me with the tungsten weight I ordered, when you pop off the rubber bumper you insert tungsten weights first followed by steel. So for an H2 buffer you should insert tungsten, tungsten, followed by steel touching the rubber bumper. I just find it really strange that 4 different buffers I popped open all had the weights the exact opposite way.
Fwiw the other buffer that I could not remember the brand at the time of this post is a cmmg h1 buffer. So that’s Giessle, aero, cmmg, and white label armory that all sent me H buffers with the weights installed backwards. If you’re like me and it’s something that bothers you it may be worth the time to check your h buffers. I don’t think it really matters that much at the end of the day considering I ran every one with the weights backwards for years before discovering this and reconfiguring them.
There are so many 9's being made my so many outfits, and some of them "have issues" as they have not been carefully designed by people who understand all the little nuances of firearms (not saying I do).
One can pretty easily self-demo the fact that the original in 5.56 cannot fire out of battery by means of dropping the hammer on the firing pin. The hammer will drop with the bolt retracted a bit but it cannot contact the FP at that point. Further forward it might, depending on carrier design, but the FP cannot reach through the breech face with the bolt unlocked. Looking at just about any "repeater" design going back to before 1900, there will be found some manner of blocking the firing pin or hammer or both until the bolt is fully in battery.
On some of the myriad 9's out there it would not surprise me to find that many or even most will fire with the bolt say 1/8" out of battery. Since, again, standard AR design allows the hammer to drop with the bolt retracted-- all the way back to the point where the carrier rocks the hammer off the sear and holds it there-- simple blowback 9's, probably a lot of them will fire slightly out of battery.
For clarity; starting with an empty H Buffer-
Add 1 rubber washer, 1 tungsten weight, another washer, a steel weight, another washer, another steel weight, and then the plug?
Is that the correct orientation?
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