When you say stovepipes the new round, do you mean that the new round is pinched by the slide, sticking bullet end up in your line of sight?Failure is occurring when gun is feeding a new round. Its toe pipes the new round. It does not occur on extracting.
Bad mag feed lips
Bad follower
Or of spec feed ramps
Ideas?
Remington has shut down several production lines and is moving them to Huntsville, AL. The R51 line is being moved as part of this. Whether is was shut down and moved due to R51 problems or the R51 problems are due to the shut down and move (and subsequent job loss lowering moral) is something to consider.Also, I have read there have been numerous issues with the R51. They are halting all production and going back to the drawing board on this one. I would send it back, sit tight, and find something else to play with until it gets resolved.
Tuner, we are talking about an R51 here all of which have undersized chambers with no throat and very rough cylinder walls. As a result, some brands of ammo do not chamber fully and all may have less than smooth extraction due to the walls."Live Round Stovepipe aka "Rideover Feed" is a Bolt Over Base misfeed.
There are only two possibilities.
Either the slide isn't making the full trip rearward, or the magazine spring isn't up to the task of getting the cartridge into position in time to meet the slide.
On the first possibility, either the slide is oversprung...the ammo is weak...or the gun is sensitive to limp wristing...or a combination of any two or all of the above.
Tuner, we are talking about an R51 here all of which have undersized chambers with no throat and very rough cylinder walls.
Not arguing with you. Just pointing out the prevailing conditions in the R51 that can lead to the slide short cycling.There are still only a few things that will stand a cartridge straight up in the breech area. I've seen Bolt Over Base misfeeds on M1 carbines.