Hopefully I can get some advice here on what to do.
Just got my M15 yesterday, quite happy with it until I went to load up some rounds. I was using live hollow points in my house, not actually shooting them but just seeing how they fed. More curiousity more than anything, I wanted to see how the rifle worked feeding rounds, see how they eject, etc.
Loaded up 5 rounds and 1/5 seemed to have a stoppage, and every time it was when a round was pointing nose up into the breech, or it was caught on the feed ramp... Very similar to my 1911 when using win clean rounds
Not so hot I thought for a brand new rifle.
So I field stripped the rifle and noticed that the feed ramps from the barrel do not line up with the feed ramps on the upper reciever... Not all the way anyways. The right side in picture is aligned perfectly, where as the left there is a small small little edge protruding from the side. The picture explains all.
To me, this looks like a problem. I did some reading and found out that the feed ramps on an M4 barrel are different than that of a regular 20" barrel. I was also told that the upper reciever also had different ramps for M4 jobbies versus regular full length barrelled uppers...
Could it be that my barrel was put into an upper reciever meant for a 20" rifle?
I really really don't want to send this back.. The company offered to build this rifle for me because armalites were 4 months wait time and they had all armalite parts except for the reciever. They also told me that they only had
a2 uppers and not a4's, which I didn't mind seeing as I wanted an A2 anyways.
I figure the following:
-Get it sent to a gunsmith and pay for a feed job
-Order an A4 upper that (hopefully) has the right feed ramps and save this A2 upper for a 20" that I do plan to assemble.
-Send it back and wait 4 fricken months for an a4 upper.
-Send it back and maybe they have an a2 upper for a carbine barrel?
I'm from canada so before you guys start telling me to go here or there for an a4 upper keep in mind that I cannot get stuff from the states shipped here.
for reference heres a pic of the rifle
Your advice is extremley appreciated.
Just got my M15 yesterday, quite happy with it until I went to load up some rounds. I was using live hollow points in my house, not actually shooting them but just seeing how they fed. More curiousity more than anything, I wanted to see how the rifle worked feeding rounds, see how they eject, etc.
Loaded up 5 rounds and 1/5 seemed to have a stoppage, and every time it was when a round was pointing nose up into the breech, or it was caught on the feed ramp... Very similar to my 1911 when using win clean rounds
Not so hot I thought for a brand new rifle.
So I field stripped the rifle and noticed that the feed ramps from the barrel do not line up with the feed ramps on the upper reciever... Not all the way anyways. The right side in picture is aligned perfectly, where as the left there is a small small little edge protruding from the side. The picture explains all.
To me, this looks like a problem. I did some reading and found out that the feed ramps on an M4 barrel are different than that of a regular 20" barrel. I was also told that the upper reciever also had different ramps for M4 jobbies versus regular full length barrelled uppers...
Could it be that my barrel was put into an upper reciever meant for a 20" rifle?
I really really don't want to send this back.. The company offered to build this rifle for me because armalites were 4 months wait time and they had all armalite parts except for the reciever. They also told me that they only had
a2 uppers and not a4's, which I didn't mind seeing as I wanted an A2 anyways.
I figure the following:
-Get it sent to a gunsmith and pay for a feed job
-Order an A4 upper that (hopefully) has the right feed ramps and save this A2 upper for a 20" that I do plan to assemble.
-Send it back and wait 4 fricken months for an a4 upper.
-Send it back and maybe they have an a2 upper for a carbine barrel?
I'm from canada so before you guys start telling me to go here or there for an a4 upper keep in mind that I cannot get stuff from the states shipped here.
for reference heres a pic of the rifle
Your advice is extremley appreciated.