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I spent all weekend at an Appleseed down in CastleRock. Great experience, but that's another post...
Towards the end of Saturday I had quite a few jams and FTFs. I got pretty proficient on clearing them out, but on the timed qualifications that hurt me.
Later that night in my tent, I field stripped everything to clean it. I popped out the bolt, since it was really nasty after shooting 300+ rounds in the open all day. Months back I'd installed an aftermarket rubberized (nylon?) bolt buffer from Tactical Innovations. It runs quieter, even less recoil and is supposed to reduce wear and tear on the receiver.
For whatever reason after I tapped this rubber bolt pin out, I could not get it back in. Setting it on a flat surface (in my tent with a notebook and flash light) I could see it was fatter on the ends than the middle. It was also very limp compared to when new. Fortunately I had the OEM steel pin in my range bag and put that back in.
On Sunday I fired another 250-300 rounds and only had one FTF. Only probably was I about 4 MOA (1") low @ 25 yards. So I re-zeroed and was pretty darn close the rest of the day.
Questions:
1) Do these nylon bolt buffers wear out? If so, how many rounds?
2) Would it make sense that a worn bolt buffer would cause me to shoot high? (I don't think I noticed over time, re-zeroing ever 500 rounds over a few months).
3) Are these just plain B.S. and not worth the few bucks they cost?
I'm not a stealth rabbit assassin, and a metal "click" nor the recoil bothers me
Towards the end of Saturday I had quite a few jams and FTFs. I got pretty proficient on clearing them out, but on the timed qualifications that hurt me.
Later that night in my tent, I field stripped everything to clean it. I popped out the bolt, since it was really nasty after shooting 300+ rounds in the open all day. Months back I'd installed an aftermarket rubberized (nylon?) bolt buffer from Tactical Innovations. It runs quieter, even less recoil and is supposed to reduce wear and tear on the receiver.
For whatever reason after I tapped this rubber bolt pin out, I could not get it back in. Setting it on a flat surface (in my tent with a notebook and flash light) I could see it was fatter on the ends than the middle. It was also very limp compared to when new. Fortunately I had the OEM steel pin in my range bag and put that back in.
On Sunday I fired another 250-300 rounds and only had one FTF. Only probably was I about 4 MOA (1") low @ 25 yards. So I re-zeroed and was pretty darn close the rest of the day.
Questions:
1) Do these nylon bolt buffers wear out? If so, how many rounds?
2) Would it make sense that a worn bolt buffer would cause me to shoot high? (I don't think I noticed over time, re-zeroing ever 500 rounds over a few months).
3) Are these just plain B.S. and not worth the few bucks they cost?
I'm not a stealth rabbit assassin, and a metal "click" nor the recoil bothers me