11-07-2021, 09:33 PM
Another jam in a practice session today. Was using a 25 round ASC Grendel mag instead of my normal 20 round Duramags to see if there would be a difference with less forward mag body curve. Had my bag on top of a very solid and stable prop and really pushed hard in to it on purpose to see if it would feed. Had one in the chamber as I set up, took the first shot and the tip of the 105 RDF got pressed hard into the base of the barrel extension during the feed. Couldn't finger it out as the base was under the mag lip. Took 2 hands to remove the mag and the bullet tip was pretty mangled. I was doing a drill with 3 targets and three props and this was on the third prop and I wouldn't have been able to recover from it before timing out. I'll attribute this one to the ASC mag as I've never had one of their Grendel mags function properly, but still a bit disconcerting. My 6.5 CM with a 20 round Duramag and a .223 with a 20 round PMAG handled it fine. Beginning to wonder if it's my barrel extension or a quirk of the caliber. And wondering what mags the DoD entity uses.
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