I might just have to come out to this and take a gander at the fun.
Kel Tec SU16F review
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so my first 100 rounds were of winchester 55gr fmj. i had massive problems with it. i would get a nice cloud of white smoke from the chamber every now and then and i would get this:
(primer "anvil" thingy protruding out of the primer) and i had this many out of the 89
about 20 out of 89. (critical stoppage with 11 rounds left in one box). i also had one lightly struck.
i ended up getting the parts of the primers that ripped off lodged inside the bolt where the firing pin sits. the firing pin got stuck pretty good and i ended up damaging the end of it a bit trying to get it out, but i stopped myself before i did any more damage and took the bolt carrier over to pandd where i got it and george i think was his name managed to get it unstuck without too much more damage. the bolt face firing pin hole is a bit messed up but everything seems OK just looks cosmetically bad.
i burned a ton of cash buying some federal american eagle ammo instead. took it to the range and fired off 50 rounds without a hiccup.
so... su-16f does not like winchester .223 55gr fmj. i wonder how picky it is with actual 5.56.
(primer "anvil" thingy protruding out of the primer) and i had this many out of the 89
about 20 out of 89. (critical stoppage with 11 rounds left in one box). i also had one lightly struck.
i ended up getting the parts of the primers that ripped off lodged inside the bolt where the firing pin sits. the firing pin got stuck pretty good and i ended up damaging the end of it a bit trying to get it out, but i stopped myself before i did any more damage and took the bolt carrier over to pandd where i got it and george i think was his name managed to get it unstuck without too much more damage. the bolt face firing pin hole is a bit messed up but everything seems OK just looks cosmetically bad.
i burned a ton of cash buying some federal american eagle ammo instead. took it to the range and fired off 50 rounds without a hiccup.
so... su-16f does not like winchester .223 55gr fmj. i wonder how picky it is with actual 5.56.
That's saddening...
....I use a lot of Winchester 55-grain white box 
, and your report was rather disheartening to read.....Not that I'm doubting your experiences at all
, but this is the first I've heard of an SU-16 "bobble" with the Winchester white-box ?...
Hmmmm I think I fired some winchester fmj through mine. Hard to say I had a bunch of different .223 fmj to shoot.
I know .223 JHP 40rd boxes of winchester shot without issue, as for accuracy with the round, my scope was out of whack so I cannot comment.
I know .223 JHP 40rd boxes of winchester shot without issue, as for accuracy with the round, my scope was out of whack so I cannot comment.
Im thinking it was a bad batch. The first 20 rounds of the winchester were fine but the other 4 boxes had issues. Its not exactly match ammo. Ill have to do more testing but maybe the gun itself was out of spec. Maybe it was just bad primers on the rounds. I picked winchester first because i shoot 9mm winchester and that has been zero failures over 300 rounds of the 9mm. Who knows. Ill try to ask kel tec what they think if i get enough time.
Winchester is know for QC issues.
As for my "Ah Ha!" moment it looks like a local manufacture of AR's might be making something for us SU16 folk that just might make this rifle a game changer
P.S. To those who PM'ed me about having it at the pumkin shoot I still hope to bring this rifle up there. Thatz if that company that is not to be named has it ready by then.
Trust me you guyz are going to love it!
As for my "Ah Ha!" moment it looks like a local manufacture of AR's might be making something for us SU16 folk that just might make this rifle a game changer
P.S. To those who PM'ed me about having it at the pumkin shoot I still hope to bring this rifle up there. Thatz if that company that is not to be named has it ready by then.
Trust me you guyz are going to love it!
Winchester is know for QC issues.
Trust me you guyz are going to love it!
Chainsaw handle?
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Fleshlight
Actually I have a guess but I'll for now.
Actually I have a guess but I'll
for now.So "that" company has the rail you created and is going to whip up some copies of it and should hopefully have yours back so it's at the Pumpkin Shoot this coming saturday??Winchester is know for QC issues.
As for my "Ah Ha!" moment it looks like a local manufacture of AR's might be making something for us SU16 folk that just might make this rifle a game changer
P.S. To those who PM'ed me about having it at the pumkin shoot I still hope to bring this rifle up there. Thatz if that company that is not to be named has it ready by then.
Trust me you guyz are going to love it!
What time does the Pumpkin Shoot get underway??
Fleshlight
Actually I have a guess but I'll
Silveragent had a great idea but SCDL beans makes me very stinky.
Has nothing to do with the rail my 2nd "Ah Ha" moment is under development as we speak.
As for the pumkin shoot is is Sunday November the 6th 10:30AM to 3PM
Cool. But just wait and see the new mod to this rifle and see how much people on that web site flip there lid.
