PROBLEM RESOLVED!!
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PROBLEM RESOLVED!!
Thanks for the Help
Can you please explain what you mean by "double feeds"? Is this a factory carbine or one that simply has BCM components on it?
What I mean by double feeds is that it will try and chamber two rounds at once, both of them being live rounds. And it is a bcm built upper, that I placed on a sun devil lower
Ok, midway is taking them back, so no harm really. Just kinda annoying
I have 4 of the arc mags I wound up with somewhere along the way. I have no idea what round count is on them but they are in the regular rotation for training and matches and I have had no issues with them. Certainly not a great sample size or discerning experiments, but I've had good luck with mine.
So, turns out after inspecting my upper again, my gas tube was bent. I guess I must have installed in incorrectly after cleaning it. My bad, I retested the magazines without issue.
I have never found it necessary to remove a gas tube for cleaning. For that matter I avoid using low end or East Block ammo in the AR platform so it was never an issue.
Neither do i usually, but i learned my lesson
I have never cleaned my gas tube and I have shot some rock-gut ammo. Set it and forget it.
new invention..... called a pipe cleaner.
alternatly fire some break free powder blast solvent via areosol down the tube when you clean.
TD ARC mags are GTG. I use a few dozen without issue.
Your gas tube is cleaned each time you fire a round. There's no need to clean it. Don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your gas tube.
Make sure you do the right thing and let Midway know it was you not the mags, and cancel any process they started.
As mentioned, the pressure of the gases from each shot essentially cleans the tube, I have never nor will I ever clean a tube.
As far as ARC mags, I had one. When they first came out and had the lip catch in the magwell after slamming it in during a carbine class, it took 3 hands to pull it out, after that no more for me
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Please be aware that cleaning the gas tube or inside the carrier key with a pipe cleaner will not do anything more than cause you to support said manufacturer of those pipe cleaners. The only way to clean inside the gas tube is to remove it and soak it in a chemical that will break down the small amount of carbine build up.
WHile I do have Swag, I saw the gummed up residue, and was beginning to have short stroking because not enough gas was reaching the carrier
A SWAG is a 'scientific wild ass guess' and not a personality inventory. What ammo, by name were you shooting?
Some reloads someone gave me, I have no clue what they were
Problem found.....
Yeah, I won't be shooting any free reloads again
Lol running unknown reloads is the fastest way to a kaboom IMO. Who knows if they were over or under charged, how many times the brass was reloaded, if they were sized up right etc.
Also, short stroking could have been caused to crap ammo, nothing to do with the gun being dirty.