So I got mine yesterday, and found some ammo for it finally, Remington GB HV, hopefully it will cycle ok, it's all that is in the tri state area of Arkansas Louisiana and Texas. I haven't had a chance to step off my porch yet to shoot it, but I have tooled around with the mag a few times. Here's what I got...
First try, I got all 25 rouns loaded, with one issue around round twelve, I had to push a little bit harder to get it past the transition. Other than that, it was easy loading.
I took the whole thing apart last night because I wanted a good understanding of the guts. And before I took it apart while Iwas going through the safety check I noticed it was very gritty cycling the action. I thought, hmmm maybe, I hope, it is just gritty from a test fire and they just slathered it up afterwards. Sure enough when I get it apart there is gunk all over the place and a couple of shards from casings I think... Nothing out of the ordinary from a qc standpoint. So I clean it up really good and put it together dry... Yes dry, wait for it... I use clp, only clp, I fell in love with it in the army and I'll never go back, I put it together dry because I find body oils from your fingers as it has sweat in it, and I was sweating my butt off last night, they tend to break down clp and make it gritty. So I put it together dry and then lube it up and I get better results. So that's what I did, put the bolt together then dropped in clp, then I put the trigger assembly back on the receiver, then put the whole thing back together. Then a drop or two here and there on the bolt and the action slid very smoothly. I didn't get thatkind of smooth action from my issue M-4. Let's see how it does with some rounds through it... Hopefully the ammo won't cause the problems.