Capt Nemo

Mine came in April. Didn't get a chance to try with factory mags yet. Last time I was out, I retracted the bolt to see what was up, and tried pushing the round into the chamber. It took a hellova lot of force to get it in with my thumb. On a most of them, the next round wasn't at the feed lips yet. I'm thinking that it's either the mag or the rim is getting caught on something to make it jam that hard. When it gets caught, the carrier is about 1 1/2" out of battery. There's no marks on the hulls where something is digging. Comparing the factory and AGP, the follower on the factory

Are the rounds getting stuck hard about 1/2 way into the chamber? That's what's happening quite often with mine, the latest shoot had it happening with slugs and high brass waterfowl loads. Going to try again today with factory mags and see what happens.

If all 4 ports are there (drilled), then polish the top of the hammer and get the action smooth. If the bolt is already done by Pauly, that's half the job. There's just enough gas on a factory 4 port/plug to cycle Federal bulk if the action is smooth enough. With mine, bulk ejects around 90-95% of the time, but I'm having problems chambering now (factory 4 port). It sounds similar to the AGP gen3 mag problem that some seem to have. Even high brass/slugs is having the same problem as low brass in the AGP's. I'm going to try things today again with various ammo types and factory mags.

I fabbed one this morning out of 22 gauge sheet. Mine holds the guide wires tight to the outside of the spring at the end. Doubt it'll go flying now! I love it when I can make my own parts!

Will do! Thanks!

Just shot the main spring keeper somewhere in my shop. Heard it hit about 5-6 times in multiple locations. Anyone have a pic of what it looks like? I keep thinking it's like a metal butterfly that keeps the wire guides apart atop the spring.

RWC is another one. They seem to have gotten the latest boatload, as their's are what's being seen at stores around here. Century Arms International is another.

I may wait a month or so yet, to see how things calm down. Fleet has RWC unconverted S12's at around $670 right now. I'd like to do a copy of mine in all black, and one in wood.

Checked out one of the newly shipped RWC Saigas yesterday. Without taking it apart, it looks like bolt profiling will be needed more than on older weapons. On the bottom of the bolt, you have a large ground facet and a small facet next to it. On the large facet, it looks to be the same size as older weapons. The small facet looks to be ground at a steeper angle and is about half the size of those on older weapons. The small facet contacts and overides the hammer on pistol grip conversions. The pic below shows the area, and the work I did to get mine to eat target loads without portin

Well, mine has seen the gunsmith after the AD, and no longer pops a barrel. Only thing now are the pits in the bore starting about 12" down the bore. Sounds like a good SBS canidate to me!

At point blank on a flak jacket, a 9mm hollow point will cut a core out of the ballistic nylon and not expand. Tried it against an old flak jacket. Figure it will do the same to kevlar, as it acts identical to the annular nose armor piercing made to cut kevlar. So a .380 should give similar preformance.

2 boxes of .410 #6. 2 boxes of 16 gauge #6. 1 box .30-06. The .410 can is now full! 91 x 3" #4 lead 182 x 2 1/2" #6 lead 91 x 2 1/2" 1/4 oz slug The 16 gauge can is also full at 153 rounds. (17x9 loose pack) The .30-06 can is now full at 308 rounds. (22x14 loose pack)

Saw a opened spam can two days ago in Steven's Point. $8 a box if I remember.

Closest I came was the night I got home on christmas leave from basic training. Grabbed my Colt AR-15, racked the charging handle, and was about to pull the trigger.......the charging handle was touching my nose.....looked at chamber.....doublefeed! Don't remember loading 20 in the mag, as I had cleaned it the day before I left for basic. Thank God for a mag failure! The only AD I've had was with my grandfather's old Ithaca double barrel. One of the barrels can fire on it's own when the safety is removed. Caught me by surprize the first time as I brought the weapon up on a duck. On

Did I read this correctly? Your build doesn't cycle high brass on setting one? Is it correct to say it doesn't cycle at all on setting one? My friend, I'm afraid you are going to give us "Port It" guys the last laugh. I hear what Nephilem7 is saying. I just don't appreciate being told to "suck it" when we're only trying to help. That's kinda probing a stick in the bee's nest. Natural consequences will tell you that your only going to get stung. On the plug I still have thread marks in the #1 area, so it may be oversize and cutting off all or most of the gas. Niether slug

Thanks Nephilim! I want to take cleaning up the action as far as possible first. Then I'll add gas if needed! That way I have less chance of overgassing when I use heavy rounds. With it starting to cycle bulk, I may be able to get slug/magnum 2 3/4" rounds to cycle on #1, as they didn't before. During cleaning tonight, I touched up the carrier at the front where it recontacts the hammer, as there was a little peening, and also chamfered/deburred the hammer where it would contact. I also did a little more work on the new facet I made on the bolt. This facet helps the bolt override the

But things went from NOT CYCLING AT ALL to CYCLING!

All you "PORT IT!" guys can SUCK IT!!!!!! Just got in from test firing, and the results are..... Mag 1 3 rounds mashed like before, 7 stovepipes. Mag 2 1 mash, 1 ejected and FTF, 3 stovepipes, 5 cycled. Mag 3 Changed back to tri rail, 2 FTF, 8 cycled. Mag 4 Full cycle!!!!!!!!! Mag 5 2 FTF, 8 cycled. SHE'S CYCLING AND I'M STILL ON THE FACTORY PORTS!!! There's still a few areas I want to touch up yet, but at least she's starting to eat Federal bulk. If I do decide to port, I may only need to open 1 port to .078 and keep the rest factory. Good lesson on how far sm

4 Million rounds of .22 is 16 pallets per day. WTF is it all going?

Well I will say this......One of those "toys" was full!

I already milled out the carrier channel and removed the ejector rubbing problem. Slides with no effort now. After working on it last night, I found that the extractor notch is cut a little too narrow, and causes part of the hangup there. I might be able to needle file it wider. With the ramp already polished, it's down to that and spring tension. I'm not going to touch the spring. One other thought is, that I did carve out a channel in the tri-rail to vent to one of the holes. It may be dumping too much gas from the relief port. I'm going to try to test again tomorrow, with

I've kinda thought that the wholesaler's have been doing nothing but stocking up warehouses and holding up retailers. Might be why CCI can crank out 4 million rounds of 22 LR a day, and yet, we see nothing.

+1 on getting all fixed up again! A good team in anything does make all the difference.

I'm still going to save porting for last! I've learned more about the action and the effects of how things work that way.

Good post to sticky!!!