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Thread: Probelms with Bushmaster M-4, any suggestions??

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    If it's a BM, you can bet your last dollar the carrier key is NOT staked properly, if at all....

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    Quote Originally Posted by jacketch View Post
    If it's a Bushmaster, my money would be on a poorly staked carrier key.
    Quote Originally Posted by Wayne Dobbs View Post
    If it's a BM, you can bet your last dollar the carrier key is NOT staked properly, if at all....

    ... never mind, I will play nice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xkaper View Post

    ... never mind, I will play nice.
    My Bushmaster was not properly staked from the factory. I would definetely send it back and if a refund could be had I would grab it. You will be glad later that you did. Try to get a Colt or L.M.T., used if you have to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xkaper View Post


    There is nothing wrong with Bushmaster, but anyway.

    Can you take some pics of your feed ramps so we can see what we are looking at?

    What kinda of ammo are you shooting?

    Did you have the same problems with all the ammo you used?

    Did you have the same problem with all the mags you used?

    Did you try tightening the mag catch one turn?

    Is there a gap between the upper and lower? You should be able to see light between them, but there shouldn't be a huge gap.

    What about the gas key, is it loose? Can you wiggle it at all?
    Actually there is nothing really good about BM either. I do agree however that there maybe another problem that could be mag or ammo related (or spring related).


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cold Zero View Post
    My Bushmaster was not properly staked from the factory. I would definetely send it back and if a refund could be had I would grab it. You will be glad later that you did. Try to get a Colt or L.M.T., used if you have to.
    +1. I havent heard very good thing about them lately. I was told they were bought out to be used as a cash cow, or dumped if it dosnt produce the right amount of funds. Yes this is here-say and I hate here-say, but I heard it none the less.

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnson601 View Post
    Everything looks ok at first glance but the feed ramps seem to be sharper than normal, didn't think that was an issue. most mags are new, eaven tried the mags I was issued from the Army. It was clean and lubed with CLP.... Think I will send the P.O.S. back to Bushmaster and try to get a refund.
    Follow M4's comments first before you send it back. Also, issued USGI mags might be some of the worst mags on the planet because they are kept in circulation for too long. I would not generally use them as my "test" mag.

    If the weapon has run for you in the past, then most likely your gas key has come loose.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Seth Harness View Post
    +1. I havent heard very good thing about them lately. I was told they were bought out to be used as a cash cow, or dumped if it dosnt produce the right amount of funds. Yes this is here-say and I hate here-say, but I heard it none the less.

    Two of the most prolific instructors in the country advise against buying a BM based on what they see in the classes they teach. This is generally called a "clue."



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    I guess GOD has spoken... or its just more internet kool-aid hype, take your pick. I guess to be uber tacticool, your rifle has to be stamped LMT or Colt. Anyway, good luck with your rifle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xkaper View Post
    I guess GOD has spoken... or its just more internet kool-aid hype, take your pick. I guess to be uber tacticool, your rifle has to be stamped LMT or Colt. Anyway, good luck with your rifle.

    God? No, but people that see TONS of them in training. Have you not read this thread??? https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=5263&page=2

    Question for you, how many BM's have you owned and what is their round count? How many of those rounds have been fired in a training course?


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    Last edited by C4IGrant; 06-09-07 at 17:59.

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    I have 3 BM's and 1 KOOL-AID (COLT)

    My very first BM has around 8000 rounds through it.

    My second one is near the same.

    My newest one which is a Patrolman's Carbine is nearing 1200.

    My 6920 which was bought a month after the Patrolman's is close to 600.

    No tacticool training courses.

    AND yes I read that thread, a lot of the crap that goes around the internet is hype, regardless to whether or not its this site or the other one. BIAS OPINION! It mainly depends on who is talking. If you get a group of ArmaLite lovers, of course everything else to them is going to be crap. Its the same way with car stereos, tv's, and any other thing on the market.

    I never said that BM doesn't have quality issues. But I will be damned if Colt and everyone else doesn't either.

    I don't see where some tactical course is going to prove that BM is crap? Because someone else says so? My stay in the Marine Corp 3/7 showed me that Colt has their fair share of issue's too. Even my background doesn't make it so just because I say I seen it and have experienced it.

    Bottom line... I am not hear to argue with you or anyone else for that matter, this guy wants to know what he can do to get his gun up and running. That what I am trying to help him with. AND the "computer chair warrior" crap gets really old.

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