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Belt Fed

Belt Fed

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The commies don't take office til January.

So

I bought this Radical a few years back, yeah i know, it's a Radical. lol but i took it to the range and it wouldn't fire two rounds before double feeding and stove piping. I messed with it a little and said heck with it. so i took it back to the gun shop and they sent it back to Radical. a few days later i got it back from the gun shop and the box had a note saying it was fixed. i said awesome.

So i put the scope back on it and everything else and take it shooting and same thing except maybe worse. i was pissed. took it back to gun shop and they sent it back again. this time when they sent it back to them their gunsmith said let me go try it out. i said knock yerself out. so he took it and even made videos of it. it would not feed anything. no matter what mag or ammo he put in it. so the gun shop done me right by it and ordered me another of different brand of same value. so i ordered a Great Lakes 308. not a great rifle it will jam every so often. not much but i wouldn't trust my life with it.

So anyway the gun shop owner puts this thing in the back room and kept saying he was going to send it back. he never did. three or four years go by and it's still there. so i get to thinkin i'd like to tinker with it and see if i can find what's wrong. so i make him an offer and he counters and i said nope, can't pay that for a lower tier rifle that's made two unsuccessful trips back to the mothership.. what i offer is better than zero you're getting on it now. he said i can't do that and i said ok and left. His manager told him to let me have it and be done with it. so they both texted me and said come get it. So i did.

I started working on it this morning and good grief it has been thrown together and stuff out of line. anyway first the gas block was not on straight. took it off and drill out the gas port just a tiny bit and then used my KAK dimple tool and dimpled the barrel. now i know it's on right. Now the pics, you can see where the cam pin was hitting the reciever and you can also see the drag marks all the way down. it was kinda rough charging it. the cam pin looked normal so i figured the upper was cast out of spec a tiny bit. the lower is billet.

So the easiest thing to do was modify the cam pin a little. now there is nothing dragging and it pulls back really smooth. you can also see the chatter marks inside the upper. guess that's to be expected on a lower tier rifle. Now i have not fired it yet and it may still not work. but i have a little bit of confidence it will be better than it was. if not it will be a parts gun.


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Belt Fed said:
The commies don't take office til January.

So

I bought this Radical a few years back, yeah i know, it's a Radical. lol but i took it to the range and it wouldn't fire two rounds before double feeding and stove piping. I messed with it a little and said heck with it. so i took it back to the gun shop and they sent it back to Radical. a few days later i got it back from the gun shop and the box had a note saying it was fixed. i said awesome.

So i put the scope back on it and everything else and take it shooting and same thing except maybe worse. i was pissed. took it back to gun shop and they sent it back again. this time when they sent it back to them their gunsmith said let me go try it out. i said knock yerself out. so he took it and even made videos of it. it would not feed anything. no matter what mag or ammo he put in it. so the gun shop done me right by it and ordered me another of different brand of same value. so i ordered a Great Lakes 308. not a great rifle it will jam every so often. not much but i wouldn't trust my life with it.

So anyway the gun shop owner puts this thing in the back room and kept saying he was going to send it back. he never did. three or four years go by and it's still there. so i get to thinkin i'd like to tinker with it and see if i can find what's wrong. so i make him an offer and he counters and i said nope, can't pay that for a lower tier rifle that's made two unsuccessful trips back to the mothership.. what i offer is better than zero you're getting on it now. he said i can't do that and i said ok and left. His manager told him to let me have it and be done with it. so they both texted me and said come get it. So i did.

I started working on it this morning and good grief it has been thrown together and stuff out of line. anyway first the gas block was not on straight. took it off and drill out the gas port just a tiny bit and then used my KAK dimple tool and dimpled the barrel. now i know it's on right. Now the pics, you can see where the cam pin was hitting the reciever and you can also see the drag marks all the way down. it was kinda rough charging it. the cam pin looked normal so i figured the upper was cast out of spec a tiny bit. the lower is billet.

So the easiest thing to do was modify the cam pin a little. now there is nothing dragging and it pulls back really smooth. you can also see the chatter marks inside the upper. guess that's to be expected on a lower tier rifle. Now i have not fired it yet and it may still not work. but i have a little bit of confidence it will be better than it was. if not it will be a parts gun.


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