Normal?

[BeginingOfTheEnd]

Took out my m&p15t today for the first time and noticed it didn't want to feed the first round if I eased it in. When using the bolt release it's fine. I use the release most of the time anyway so I don't mind, just wondering if this is normal. Other than that flawless preformace. Only put 100 through it but the groups were about 1-2 moa with irons @ 100m, and so far it's running pretty clean. Man it's a blast to shoot.

 

[CORNfedREBEL]

i also just took mine out for the first time today, how do u ease the first round in, i just pull the handle back and it loads and were good to go. is it hard on it if u dont ease int he first round?

 

[arizona98tj]

Please define "eased it in".

A round should be manually chambered in one of two ways:

1. The bolt is locked back and so the bolt release is hit to chamber a round.

2. The charging handle is pulled to the rear and let go. Do NOT ride the charging handle as it chambers the round.

My guess is you were riding the charging handle to "ease it it". if so, stop doing that and your AR will operate as designed.

 

[ken158]

+1 on what Arizona said

 

[Dragon88]

Hit the bolt release. It's an AR, don't baby it.

 

[BeginingOfTheEnd]

Yes I was riding the charging handle. Being the first time out I was looking for everything to be operating properly so was hence, riding it in slowly. Won't do that any more lol, glad to hear it's normal to jam up if you do.

 

[anomad]

I learned not to ride the handle by experience also...

 

[shoofly2u]

Picked mine up Saturday and went straight to the outdoor range. Put almost 500 rounds through it WITHOUT A SINGLE problem. Nothing. What an incredible gun. So much fun to shoot. I should have got one a long time ago!!!

 

[slowkota]

Please define "eased it in".

A round should be manually chambered in one of two ways:

1. The bolt is locked back and so the bolt release is hit to chamber a round.

2. The charging handle is pulled to the rear and let go. Do NOT ride the charging handle as it chambers the round.

My guess is you were riding the charging handle to "ease it it". if so, stop doing that and your AR will operate as designed.

LOL!!!

I thought the same thing when I put the first mag into mine last week!

When I first loaded her (first time ever with an AR!!!) I rode the handle back into rounding the chamber... it hung up! So I slapped the mag, pulled the handle back once again, and let that bitch go!!!

Its kinda funny, that I fell back on Tap, Rack, Bang (TRB), and I've never had a day of Mil. or LEO training

I kinda embarassed myself when I discharged a full magazine, and loaded a new one... and didn't know at first why it the bolt wouldn't dissengage... Duh, gotta hit that bolt relase! Good thing I was alone!!! lol

 

[arizona98tj]

Neither the military nor LEO agencies have a patent on clearing malfunctions using tap, rack, and deciding on whether or not it goes bang (it's a decision, not the final step in clearing a malfuction).

 

[Foxtrot]

I remember many years ago now, we had a guy who had a habit of wanting to ride the charging handle forward. The instructor told him a few times to just yank it back and let it go when it would not go back any further, his words were "Act like your going to yank it out of the weapon". He would not stop trying to ride it forward.

So later the instructor caught him at it again, riding the charging handle forward, and as a means of driving the lesson home he had the guy stand aside, while the rest of the day continued for the rest of us, and do nothing but charge the weapon continually, yank-release-clunk, yank-release-clunk, over and over again for about six hours straight.

So at the end of the day the instructor, intending to re-enforce the lesson a little more, tells the guy to stand in front of the class and instruct people on the proper method for operating the charging handle for resourcing the weapon.

The guy starts through the steps, clearly a little angry at being singled out like this, "first, grab the charging handle like this" - then he shows how, "Next, pull the charging handle to the rear like your going to yank it out of the weapon then when it stops let go" - he demonstrates and yanks it to the rear.

We wait for the yank-release-clunk but it doesn't come. Then we realize he is standing there with the weapon in one hand and the charging handle in the other. He had actually yanked it out of the weapon. Actually what happened, since these were training weapons and had seen a few years of abuse and mis-use, the metal had simply given away from fatigue due to the many times of the charging handle having been 'bent' over years of angry trainees participating in the same lesson this guy was given.

When you yank that handle back, make sure you do it straight back till it stops, and just let it go.