Last Friday. At quals.
Bang. Double feed. Cleared. New mag. Bolt override.
What in the actual f....
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--British veteran of the Ukraine War, discussing the FN SCAR H.It's f*****g great, putting holes in people, all the time, and it just puts 'em down mate, they drop like sacks of s**t when they go down with this.
The weirdest malfunction I experienced was with a LMT MWS possibly 8+ years ago. While shooting re-manufactured match ammo a primer popped, case ejected, new round was fed, but the bolt would not go into battery because the popped primer was stuck in the barrel extension.
Weird.
My oddest came in a SCAR 17. They had a bad batch of heat treated magazines which led to a small portion of the feed lip breaking off and floating around the innards. Had a couple of failure to fires with no primer strike - then it would fire. After it happened twice inspection revealed 2 piece of the feed lip in the weapon, one of which had gotten onto the bolt face to keep the weapon from functioning. Stopped for the day and found another magazine that had a crack developing.
Just glad it didn't make it's way into the barrel.
Weirdest one I saw was in 2013 at a rifle course. I think the student was running 5.56 ammo through a 223 barrel. Not sure exactly how it happened, but a primer popped out somewhere and worked it's way behind his safety (wichester ammo). After the iteration of fire, the student put his rifle on safe causing the primer to ignite which turned his semi auto gun into three round burst. Luckily the rifle was pointed downrange and the only thing hit was some cement on the ground.
I and two buddies had a rash of those malfs two years ago with a new set of Okay 30s I had just bought. We all have 6920s and I maintain all of 'em and I always thought I did good.
I didn't think it was the mags, but some hard looking and switching to a set of Pmags I have cleared it up, to so far not return for any of us.
Hmm, good to know
My worst has been a blown primer getting lodged in the FCG, keeping me from pulling the trigger. That would have sucked in a moment of need.
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