The post whore thread.

[BuffCyclist]

How was it malfunctioning though? I'm honestly curious now.

My 16" carbine had an H buffer and with wolf (steel cased) it was short cycling and not ejecting the spent case, so I dropped back down to the carbine. Only went up to the H because people said it would seriously change the felt recoil (it didn't lol).

[stoner01]

I should add the issue I was having was that the would cycle some times and have a failure to feed. Then sometimes it would be a failure to eject or the bolt wouldn't even cycle. Just turned into a one shot wonder.

[BuffCyclist]

That sounds to me like the buffer you currently have is TOO heavy, in that the gasses aren't high enough to push that buffer far enough back to fully cycle the next round (that's my understanding of the process). Do you have a semi-auto or FA BCG? Which BCG profile does the DD rifle use? (and I assume you mean Daniel Defense not Double D because we all like Double D more...)

Were you shooting it suppressed? I know that suppressors change the way the gas impingement operates.

eta: OR the ammo was lower powered and doesn't create high enough pressures to push that buffer back all the way. Have any 556 you can run through just to test that theory?

e-eta: And if anyone else has more experience, PLEASE set me straight! LOL I'm not claiming that what I am saying is accurate, but it is my current understanding and I honestly haven't had much experience playing around with buffers.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Yo, Bitches.

Hope we have a good week.

[HoneyBadger]

Hey dudes, I'll be doing some serious catching up this week... I'm working graves.

Stoner, if its any help, I have a 7.5" .223/5.56 SBR upper with a pistol length gas system. I can put it on any of my lowers and it still cycles with either carbine or regular buffer. With a carbine buffer it ejects to the 1:30-2:00 position, which is pretty aggressive, but it still functions fine.

Is it a factory assembled upper or home built? BC asked some good questions in his most recent post above.

[BuffCyclist]

Oh wait, HB, you mean I actually might know what I'm talking about?!

[Great-Kazoo]

It's a beautiful sky this a.m.

[Great-Kazoo]

I was running Pmc brass 55gr. It's modeled after a DD rifle and their version comes with an H buffer so I'm going to give it a shot.

Is it that pmc bronze? That stuff seems underpowered.

[HoneyBadger]

Is it that pmc bronze? That stuff seems underpowered.

True. I really like the PMC X-Tac, but the bronze seems a little on the weak side.

[HoneyBadger]

Noob question for the reloading post whores: I just tumbled my first brass with some Lyman tufnut media and it left all of the brass polished, but with a reddish dust coating, so the brass looks pretty dirty, almost a bronze color. Did I do something wrong? It wipes right off, but it seems like a huge PITA to wipe every case clean. What is the secret here? I did a bunch of searches and it seems like maybe a dryer sheet or two would have prevented this?