- Jan 17, 2013
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So way back in 2008, I bought a Springfield M1a and it's been an ongoing project ever since. When i originally got it, I also got a scope mount and a high end scope for it. I never quite liked how the scope mount sat on the rifle and always felt like it didnt hold zero very well. I pulled the scope off and pretty much shot it iron sights for years. 2-3 years ago I finally put a troy battle rail on the rifle and remounted the scope.
I bore sighted the rifle, tool it out to the back yard range, fired off the first round, made some adjustments, squeezed again and ....click. Rifle didnt eject the first round. So back to the bench it went, broke it all down again, made sure it all lined up. Polished the chamber as some rounds (especially some of the 7.62 NATO rounds) seemed to stick in the chamber, requiring a rubber mallet to extract. That seemed to clear that issue up. Months later I finally got time to fiddle with it again. Took it outside, fired one off. Still didnt cycle.
Pulled it all back apart. Made sure it was all dry and clean. Put it in the safe until I could get to it again. Pulled it out a few times over the last two years. Always the same issue. Pulled it apart when I could. Never found an issue.
So yesterday, with my kid at his grandparents, I finally got time again. Took it out, same issue. So I'm sitting in my living room with the rifle completely disassembled on a towel on the living room floor and realize that at some point I had turned the screw that shut off the gas valve. Reassembled, took it outside, cycles as it should...two years I've been screwing with this thing in my little free time to find out that I'm a complete idiot.
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I bore sighted the rifle, tool it out to the back yard range, fired off the first round, made some adjustments, squeezed again and ....click. Rifle didnt eject the first round. So back to the bench it went, broke it all down again, made sure it all lined up. Polished the chamber as some rounds (especially some of the 7.62 NATO rounds) seemed to stick in the chamber, requiring a rubber mallet to extract. That seemed to clear that issue up. Months later I finally got time to fiddle with it again. Took it outside, fired one off. Still didnt cycle.
Pulled it all back apart. Made sure it was all dry and clean. Put it in the safe until I could get to it again. Pulled it out a few times over the last two years. Always the same issue. Pulled it apart when I could. Never found an issue.
So yesterday, with my kid at his grandparents, I finally got time again. Took it out, same issue. So I'm sitting in my living room with the rifle completely disassembled on a towel on the living room floor and realize that at some point I had turned the screw that shut off the gas valve. Reassembled, took it outside, cycles as it should...two years I've been screwing with this thing in my little free time to find out that I'm a complete idiot.
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