LAR-15 Magazine Feed Problems?

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StylinMike

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Anybody else have feed problems with their LAR-15 magazines? I recently bought 4, and when extracting the second last round, the last round pops up out of the magazine and jams the gun up. Do I need to bend my feed lips in?
 
rounded of the front of mine with a file and sandpapered edges went from jam everytime to never jam..

but sounds like your problem is a little different
 
Rounded where the tip if a bullet hits? Like how the pmags are? Because I've noticed that as a bit of a problem area too, the lip of the case neck can snag on the front of the mag
 
StylinMike said:
Rounded where the tip if a bullet hits? Like how the pmags are? Because I've noticed that as a bit of a problem area too, the lip of the case neck can snag on the front of the mag
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Yep, and that curved bit at the front of the feed lips... that can snag the rim and 'pop' the last one up. A couple minutes with a Dremel and a small sanding drum smoothed mine out nicely.
 
I had that problem on 1 of my pistol mags too. I noticed the lips were slightly further apart which caused a round to pop out as the bolt carrier came back over it, so I put it in a vice and slowly squished it a little.
Problem solved.
Also, could be a follower issue. I'm going to order all new followers for mine once I figure out how many I need..I've got a few more mags on the way then ill do a count.

I'm going to smooth out the edges on mine this week...they are all very rough.
 
airtruck63chev said:
rounded of the front of mine with a file and sandpapered edges went from jam everytime to never jam..

but sounds like your problem is a little different
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Just performed a similar fix on a couple of mine. This was driving me CRAZY. They ran fine after modification, but I only ran 80 rounds or so through them. We will see how they are in the long run. I went from a 10-20% failure rate to zero last time out.

We'll see though. Drives me crazy that I have to tweak mags to make them functional.

Ben
 
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