The new AR Report

[flphotog]

Originally Posted by Arley

Third shot and the bolt stuck hard with a live round in battery . So much for sighting it in . Took the rubber hammer to it when I got home . Bolt came loose as did the round . Hmm ? WTF . Tried a case ( not hot ) and it stuck also . Placed one in the chamber and it would not go into battery .

Called PSA and the guy asked if I had their lower . I replied NO . He said well there is the problem and we can't guarantee it if not . Told him this was not my first rodeo and that makes no difference . In a stern voice I might add . He said just a minute and came back with send it back on their dime . So I won't see the range again for at least a month now . %#@! *&%# .

So we shall see what they come up with .

I had the same problem with an Armalite AR15 not very long ago Arley. Could not seat a single round, putting one in by hand it would go about 3/4 of the way and stop. The LGS sent mine back to the distributor as defective and I bought an Adams Arms instead.
The Armalite was a .223 Wylde was yours by any chance?

[Arley]

Originally Posted by flphotog

I had the same problem with an Armalite AR15 not very long ago Arley. Could not seat a single round, putting one in by hand it would go about 3/4 of the way and stop. The LGS sent mine back to the distributor as defective and I bought an Adams Arms instead.
The Armalite was a .223 Wylde was yours by any chance?

Mine is from PSA I discovered a broken off neck from the 3rd round shot . It was a reload . Not sure if they will honor a guaranty . Called a local Smith and he is going to look at it today . The barrel was only a $100 . so it may not payoff to fix it . We will see . Hopefully that is all that is wrong . I have heard that some of PSA s barrels have problems . Had I known that I would not have bought it .

[That Purple Guy]

Originally Posted by Arley

Mine is from PSA I discovered a broken off neck from the 3rd round shot . It was a reload . Not sure if they will honor a guaranty . Called a local Smith and he is going to look at it today . The barrel was only a $100 . so it may not payoff to fix it . We will see . Hopefully that is all that is wrong . I have heard that some of PSA s barrels have problems . Had I known that I would not have bought it .

Not all of them are crap. FN makes their premium and chf barrels. I haven't heard of any issues with those lines

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[BigAm]

So I had the exact same issue with a PSA ar when I first got it...round was all the way in battery but I couldnt get it to come back out...probably a bad idea but I opened up the upper off the lower re cocked the hammer and fired the case out...never had an issue ever again.

I did notice that I had a wear mark on the upper where the cam pin rotates over, and Ive seen a lot of PSA uppers so that. My guess is the cam pin was resting against the inside of the upper and caused the issue till it made just enough clearance to fit.