AR junked firing pin retainer twice. What's the problem?

[xenasdad]

Yes. Pin became a straight piece of metal. That's what the bolt did to it That one I threw away. This second one still seems serviceable. I hammered it back into shape.



Well maybe a bit more information about my stoppage. It was actually two stoppages. I had one stoppage where I fired and the bolt froze forward. I went off range and freed it (not noticing if the retainer was still there or not. I was just happy to free it). The RO told me to try it again so I went to the line and fired once and it jammed again. That's when the RO shut me down and we tried to free it. I took down the lower and then pulled the bolt out and found the cotter pin in the barrel.

The first stoppage happened after maybe 30 rounds. Is it possible to fire that much without the retainer pin properly in?

I can tell you after this I will make sure that I check the pin is held by the retainer.

I don't really know, mine wouldn't fire but It was all i could think of.

 

[Runningfool]

I see a lot of confused Nutters sitting at a bench with a half pulled apart AR going, "It was here... and it ended up here? WTF?" sipping on a beer and looking at that thing like David Copperfield just pulled a rhino out of some chick's crotch...

Without the origional retention pin to look at, its a bewilderment of epic proportions.

I'm with you on this! I'm picturing Kevin Costner doing a "magic cotter pin" scene ala JFK!

 

[AROD89]

I see a lot of confused Nutters sitting at a bench with a half pulled apart AR going, "It was here... and it ended up here? WTF?" sipping on a beer and looking at that thing like David Copperfield just pulled a rhino out of some chick's crotch...

Without the origional retention pin to look at, its a bewilderment of epic proportions.

So true !! I'm not even joking when I say I literally did that haha. I took down both my AR's and couldn't fathom how such a thing would even be possible... like a serious mind f** right there.

 

[*MALICE*]

looking at that thing like David Copperfield just pulled a rhino out of some chick's crotch

I remember watching that trick on a tv special.

 

[Mirk]

As op has posted, the pin will only go in one way.. the correct way. I believe in their last post, even a picture was provided to show that the pin is incapable of being inserted on the ejection side of the BCG.

Yes. Pin became a straight piece of metal. That's what the bolt did to it That one I threw away. This second one still seems serviceable. I hammered it back into shape.

So the pin you posted in the picture showing it didn't fit the wrong way was hammered back to shape... so it’s a different shape now and could have fit previously... yeah… I don’t think David Copperfield pulled any tricks here…