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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveL View Post
    I'd still be curious what would happen with another mil spec spring, even though yours measures properly. I mean LOTS of people are running them without the issues you're having.
    Like I said, I had issues identical to this (albeit not as frequent) with a Noveske running the mil-spec carbine spring/RE. I just think mil-spec is too soft in some cases.

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    I hate to be another Debbie Downer here, but if you are on some ragged edge where a +3% spring means the difference between reliable function and not, I would not be a happy camper. Both those uppers would be sidelined.

    Something else is wrong. What is common between the rifles - magazines, ammo, what else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rayrevolver View Post
    I hate to be another Debbie Downer here, but if you are on some ragged edge where a +3% spring means the difference between reliable function and not, I would not be a happy camper. Both those uppers would be sidelined.

    Something else is wrong. What is common between the rifles - magazines, ammo, what else?
    Nothing is in common between the rifles. Literally nothing. The M4 just doesn't have much margin of error when you drop the bolt, IME


    Further, the Noveske had much more failures with the Mil-spec Colt spring, than the Sprinco White. This suggests that yes, even a VERY SMALL difference in spring rate can matter a lot. This was over about 2,000 rounds with each spring, so not a sample size of 1, so to speak...

    Keep in mind that an ounce one way or another with the buffer can keep a gun from running reliably...
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    Quote Originally Posted by WS6 View Post
    Nothing is in common between the rifles. Literally nothing. The M4 just doesn't have much margin of error when you drop the bolt, IME


    Further, the Noveske had much more failures with the Mil-spec Colt spring, than the Sprinco White. This suggests that yes, even a VERY SMALL difference in spring rate can matter a lot. This was over about 2,000 rounds with each spring, so not a sample size of 1, so to speak...

    Keep in mind that an ounce one way or another with the buffer can keep a gun from running reliably...
    Have you checked the chambers with field gauges?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BufordTJustice View Post
    Have you checked the chambers with field gauges?
    If the cartridge never leaves the magazine...how does this matter? But yes, I actually have. Go and no go 5.56 gauges showed as they should.

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    For what it's worth, I had issues with a Spikes T2 buffer and and a blue spring being too much for my rifle and had to return to mil spec for reliable function.

    Is the issue that the bolt stops moving forward before the round has completely left the mag or is it running over the top of the round completely? (I'm just making sure I read the post correctly). Have you checked to make sure the mag is not canted in the magwell and causing an awkward angle preventing proper operation?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Rayrevolver View Post
    I hate to be another Debbie Downer here, but if you are on some ragged edge where a +3% spring means the difference between reliable function and not, I would not be a happy camper. Both those uppers would be sidelined.

    Something else is wrong. What is common between the rifles - magazines, ammo, what else?
    This.

    I get that WS6 isn't a dummy, but between ammo and mags, there just isn't proof of this being an A5 issue at all.

    It's easy enough to put a .75" or 1" or whatever the length is spacer in the A5 system and make it a carbine system, I'd want to see that before I even remotely started to blame a specific component that a ton of people are using now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The FNG View Post
    For what it's worth, I had issues with a Spikes T2 buffer and and a blue spring being too much for my rifle and had to return to mil spec for reliable function.

    Is the issue that the bolt stops moving forward before the round has completely left the mag or is it running over the top of the round completely? (I'm just making sure I read the post correctly). Have you checked to make sure the mag is not canted in the magwell and causing an awkward angle preventing proper operation?


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    Quote Originally Posted by firefighter37 View Post
    You are not the first, nor the last person to have problems with the Spikes T2 buffer.
    Oh indeed.

    Can't believe they still exist.

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    The Vltor A5: my journey to, and away

    Quote Originally Posted by firefighter37 View Post
    You are not the first, nor the last person to have problems with the Spikes T2 buffer.
    Which is why I promptly sold it on TOS for a profit . Lesson learned.


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