01-16-2012, 04:38 AM
JohnOD Wrote:You can trim the length of the ejector spring and the brass wont hit the deflector so hard. Some guys balk that you may lose some reliability but I have excellent results doing it on several uppers. Besides the brass not getting overly beat up another plus is once tuned properly your brass will land in a nice pile just a few feet away. I will try & post a link once I find it.
Here's the link...
http://www.gswagner.com/arejector/arejector.html
Instead of trimming the spring so the ejector is flush to the face of the bolt (without the roll pin installed) I like to leave it ~1/16" longer. You might want to have a couple of extra springs on hand.
I'm pretty sure that here I'm supposed to say something like this... If you are depending on your AR for defense of life & limb I would leave it alone if it functions properly.
This is what I do too. Some think it reduces reliability, but I haven't found that to be true. I shoot a service rifle in the national matches and attaching the velcro disqualifies the rifle as a service rifle. So I trim the spring. One of my uppers has over 14,000 rounds and third barrel, with this modification and has had zero failures to eject or to feed. And as already stated, when I finish a stage my brass is in a nice pile at 2:00. We call it potty training.
Bob