Hi all,
I just received an AR that a local gunsmith put together for me. I was going over the functionality of the rifle to make myself familiar with it before taking it to the range. One of the things I did was to chamber and eject a round.
Upon inspection of the ejected round, I noticed a small indent on the primer of the round which made me raise an eyebrow. I tried this again with a few more rounds and the same indent appeared on each of them.
This has never happened with any of my other pistols or rifles, which is making me wonder if it is something I should be concerned over. My worry is that this condition may cause a misfire due to contact between the firing pin and printer of the round - or that because the firing pin is already pushing against the round when not fired, the pin may over penetrate the round when fired and cause the round to blow up in the chamber
I do not know much about AR-15s, so could someone let me know if this is normal or if its something I should take the rifle back to the gunsmith to look at. (he's an hour away so I don't wanna make the drive unless I need to)
Thanks
I just received an AR that a local gunsmith put together for me. I was going over the functionality of the rifle to make myself familiar with it before taking it to the range. One of the things I did was to chamber and eject a round.
Upon inspection of the ejected round, I noticed a small indent on the primer of the round which made me raise an eyebrow. I tried this again with a few more rounds and the same indent appeared on each of them.
This has never happened with any of my other pistols or rifles, which is making me wonder if it is something I should be concerned over. My worry is that this condition may cause a misfire due to contact between the firing pin and printer of the round - or that because the firing pin is already pushing against the round when not fired, the pin may over penetrate the round when fired and cause the round to blow up in the chamber
I do not know much about AR-15s, so could someone let me know if this is normal or if its something I should take the rifle back to the gunsmith to look at. (he's an hour away so I don't wanna make the drive unless I need to)
Thanks