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magazines - vanguard138 - 09-13-2011
I believe on the old site there was a link to an area that discribed how to tune the grendel magazines. Does anyone know where this went? I was unsuccesful on a search.
Having issues with magazine feeds on anything over 5 round. Got so frustrated I went back to shooting my 223
Thanks.
magazines - bwaites - 09-13-2011
vanguard138 Wrote:I believe on the old site there was a link to an area that discribed how to tune the grendel magazines. Does anyone know where this went? I was unsuccesful on a search.
Having issues with magazine feeds on anything over 5 round. Got so frustrated I went back to shooting my 223
Thanks.
Welcome back! That magazine thread was unfortunately lost, but I might be able to resurrect it. It will take a few days, though!
Update: Nope, can't do it. I can get to the old site, (or a cached copy anyway) but it redirects to here now, instead of letting me into that data.
Stonetower might be able to access it, he has more computer-fu than me!
magazines - vanguard138 - 09-14-2011
Went to the range today and found something interesting. I used a couple five round mags to test some hunting loads with no issues. Then I went to the 15 (14) round mags and the issue of slamming them into the feed below the ramp began. I love to shoot, but I am far from an armoror
Anyhow, I noticed that the mags move north and south in the receiver a bit. So I put some pressure on the bottom of the mag which obviously lifts the nose of the shell. I did this with several of the 15 round mags with no feed issues.I have a Rock River matched upper and lower that was used for this build. Any suggestions on a fix for this issue?
magazines - bwaites - 09-14-2011
The simple solution is to bend the feed lips a tiny bit to raise the bullets, creating the same effect as pressure on the bottom of the mag.
Go slow and gentle with the feed lips, sometimes a little goes a long way! The 14-15 round mags are the most difficult to make work correctly.