ny32182
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So a couple weeks ago, I took out an upper to shoot for the first time in years... This was an upper I bought roughly 9 years ago; I fired about 1100 rounds through it then with no issues at that time, and basically it has been sitting ever since.
A couple weeks ago I took it out and shot a couple hundred rounds, and toward the end of my session I started getting FTExtracts... the case would come off the extractor before ejecting and I would get a double feed.
When I got home I discovered that the extractor spring was basically completely dead. Like near-zero tension on the extractor. Honestly I'm amazed it was running at all.
Replaced with an extra power BCM spring, shot a couple hundred more rounds, back to normal.
So I started looking at my other extractor springs in guns I haven't shot in a while. They have more tension than the first one, but less than I remember them having when they were new. These are all basically safe queens for the most part.
Do these springs go bad just sitting for a few years? Is this a thing? I've never had any spring appear to go bad from just sitting before.
These are all from quality units, BCM, LMT, etc bcg's. I might just replace all of them for some cheap insurance.
A couple weeks ago I took it out and shot a couple hundred rounds, and toward the end of my session I started getting FTExtracts... the case would come off the extractor before ejecting and I would get a double feed.
When I got home I discovered that the extractor spring was basically completely dead. Like near-zero tension on the extractor. Honestly I'm amazed it was running at all.
Replaced with an extra power BCM spring, shot a couple hundred more rounds, back to normal.
So I started looking at my other extractor springs in guns I haven't shot in a while. They have more tension than the first one, but less than I remember them having when they were new. These are all basically safe queens for the most part.
Do these springs go bad just sitting for a few years? Is this a thing? I've never had any spring appear to go bad from just sitting before.
These are all from quality units, BCM, LMT, etc bcg's. I might just replace all of them for some cheap insurance.