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Hoping I can get some help diagnosing my rifle. I'm a newbie M1A owner. My M1A was assembled by Croc's Gun Shop using all Winchester parts, except for a forged Smith Enterprise receiver and a Crazy Horse barrel. They test fired it 35 rounds before sending it to me. I picked up the rifle, went to the range with it, shot 1 magazine and then I let it sit in a safe for 2 years... I took it to the range today, popped a CheckMate brand mag in it and started shooting. The first round didn't chamber correctly, but it looked like it did, I pulled the trigger, and nothing... It was like I dry fired it... I removed the magazine, pulled the Op Rod back, and there was no primer strike on the round, let go of the Op Rod, re-inserted the magazine and pulled the trigger, and the gun shot, the action cycled, but the gun did the same thing with the next round... I took the same actions as I did before, and shot the second round. I thought it might be the ammo, so I switched to some reloads, and it did the same thing. After round #4, it loaded round #5, did the same thing, but now my Op Rod was stuck in the forward position. I was able to break it loose and unload the rifle. I ended up putting it back in the case and shot my handgun instead.
The first ammo I used was the ZQI ammo (I know, cheap stuff, but it's what I had on hand... Shoot it out of my FAL and Remington 700 alright though). The second ammo was some reloads of mine, ZQI brass, Winchester primer, Hornady 150gr bullet, loaded with 42gr of IMR 8302 xbr powder. Brass was sized with a RCBS 308 Full Length die set.
Any ideas as to why my rifle was acting this way? Any help is appreciated.
Hoping I can get some help diagnosing my rifle. I'm a newbie M1A owner. My M1A was assembled by Croc's Gun Shop using all Winchester parts, except for a forged Smith Enterprise receiver and a Crazy Horse barrel. They test fired it 35 rounds before sending it to me. I picked up the rifle, went to the range with it, shot 1 magazine and then I let it sit in a safe for 2 years... I took it to the range today, popped a CheckMate brand mag in it and started shooting. The first round didn't chamber correctly, but it looked like it did, I pulled the trigger, and nothing... It was like I dry fired it... I removed the magazine, pulled the Op Rod back, and there was no primer strike on the round, let go of the Op Rod, re-inserted the magazine and pulled the trigger, and the gun shot, the action cycled, but the gun did the same thing with the next round... I took the same actions as I did before, and shot the second round. I thought it might be the ammo, so I switched to some reloads, and it did the same thing. After round #4, it loaded round #5, did the same thing, but now my Op Rod was stuck in the forward position. I was able to break it loose and unload the rifle. I ended up putting it back in the case and shot my handgun instead.
The first ammo I used was the ZQI ammo (I know, cheap stuff, but it's what I had on hand... Shoot it out of my FAL and Remington 700 alright though). The second ammo was some reloads of mine, ZQI brass, Winchester primer, Hornady 150gr bullet, loaded with 42gr of IMR 8302 xbr powder. Brass was sized with a RCBS 308 Full Length die set.
Any ideas as to why my rifle was acting this way? Any help is appreciated.
