Greyhunter
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I am having issues with a particular reload getting stuck in the chamber of my ARs but I don't know why. This occurs on more than 1 rifle, so it's not the barrel. About 50% of the time I try to manually remove an unfired cartridge it gets stuck, requiring all my strength on the charging handle with both hands to remove it. Sometimes that is not enough and I have to smack the rifle butt on the ground while pulling the charging handle. At least once I ripped the rim off doing this, and once last winter the rim ripped off when I fired at a coyote (cleaning rod knocked it out).
The other issue I'm having recently with this load is failure to fire on the first round. After hitting the bolt release to chamber a round all I get is a "click", but no primer strike. No sign of the firing pin touching the primer. If I put that round back in and try again it always fires the 2nd time. This seems like more of a gun issue than a load issue, but again it only seems to happen with this load.
The load in question is a 60gr Vmax loaded in a Winchester case (guessing cases have 2-3 firings on them), using Redding dies, 2.26" OAL.
So what is causing these issues?? I'm not having a problem with any of my other loads but they are using different brass and bullets.
The other issue I'm having recently with this load is failure to fire on the first round. After hitting the bolt release to chamber a round all I get is a "click", but no primer strike. No sign of the firing pin touching the primer. If I put that round back in and try again it always fires the 2nd time. This seems like more of a gun issue than a load issue, but again it only seems to happen with this load.
The load in question is a 60gr Vmax loaded in a Winchester case (guessing cases have 2-3 firings on them), using Redding dies, 2.26" OAL.
So what is causing these issues?? I'm not having a problem with any of my other loads but they are using different brass and bullets.