Lockhart Tactical Raven Platinum Edition, .223 Wylde
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DI IMO is more accurate than piston guns
My experience as well, but my DI guns were all custom builds so it's not a fair comparison.
Anyone know who makes the barrels for the Raven? IBI?
That I have no idea, I’d imagine being built in BC but you never know
I took my new Raven to the range today.
My rifle was initially having problems with light strikes on 5.56. It was eating up .223 but couldn’t go a mag of 5.56 with out light little dimples on the primers. .223 primers and some 5.56 had good solid strikes. Even loading the same round of 5.56 again and again and it wouldn’t fire. For 5.56 I used xtac 55gr and some Norinco yellow box that produced massive fireballs! Out of 10 round I’d get two light strikes.
By the end of about 200 rounds of going back to PMC Bronce .223, I tried the 5.56 again, and it started gobbling it up. Even the three rounds of 5.56 that would NOT fire upon repeated attempts went bang.
I put through another 100 or so of 5.56 to verify it was now running it.
I dunno. Any ideas?
I cleaned and lubed the rifle before firing. I’m VERY familiar with the AR platform and have ran one at work for 17 years. I broke the rifle down on the range a couple times to verify the firing pin wasn’t hung up, the hammer seemed to have good tension, and the bolt looked as if it was going into battery.
After my initial frustration I can say that I really like the rifle. I’ll also add that my experience with the AR platform completely transitioned over for all my troubleshooting - so that was a pleasure.
I’d like to get others input into what may have been going on.
My rifle was initially having problems with light strikes on 5.56. It was eating up .223 but couldn’t go a mag of 5.56 with out light little dimples on the primers. .223 primers and some 5.56 had good solid strikes. Even loading the same round of 5.56 again and again and it wouldn’t fire. For 5.56 I used xtac 55gr and some Norinco yellow box that produced massive fireballs! Out of 10 round I’d get two light strikes.
By the end of about 200 rounds of going back to PMC Bronce .223, I tried the 5.56 again, and it started gobbling it up. Even the three rounds of 5.56 that would NOT fire upon repeated attempts went bang.
I put through another 100 or so of 5.56 to verify it was now running it.
I dunno. Any ideas?
I cleaned and lubed the rifle before firing. I’m VERY familiar with the AR platform and have ran one at work for 17 years. I broke the rifle down on the range a couple times to verify the firing pin wasn’t hung up, the hammer seemed to have good tension, and the bolt looked as if it was going into battery.
After my initial frustration I can say that I really like the rifle. I’ll also add that my experience with the AR platform completely transitioned over for all my troubleshooting - so that was a pleasure.
I’d like to get others input into what may have been going on.
I had a few light strikes on a semi, a while back. Appears the hammer didn’t protrude enough to make good contact with the firing pin , thereby causing light primer strikes. A different trigger solved that.
But as yours is running fine now, just a breakin is all was needed.
Not to bad for such a nice gun.
I got a gen 3 set preordered… can’t wait
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I just preordered the silver version too that they just released. I’m hoping it’ll be promising. Only problem I realized is that the magazine catch is way further out compared to the platinum variant so I might have to buy the platinum magwell to remedy that.
Initial light primer strikes - something not right with either how the hammer spring was engaging the hammer, or something off with the hammer not fully engaging with the firing pin on those initial rounds.
It is plausible (and probably more likely) that if your chamber is rough or tight, that on some initial early round that you had firing pin protrusion or a "blown primer", and that blew a bit of primer material back through the firing pin opening in the bolt, and that it lodged somewhere within the firing pin channel just enough to foul good solid hits on the harder primer'd stuff and not rounds with lighter primer cups.
At some point in your effort to diagnose the light primer strikes or through regular firing, that little piece of deleterious material worked its way out and you were then seeing solid hits back on the harder primers.
edited for spelling.
It is plausible (and probably more likely) that if your chamber is rough or tight, that on some initial early round that you had firing pin protrusion or a "blown primer", and that blew a bit of primer material back through the firing pin opening in the bolt, and that it lodged somewhere within the firing pin channel just enough to foul good solid hits on the harder primer'd stuff and not rounds with lighter primer cups.
At some point in your effort to diagnose the light primer strikes or through regular firing, that little piece of deleterious material worked its way out and you were then seeing solid hits back on the harder primers.
edited for spelling.
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Silver has less options than the gold. Youd need to buy the other magwell to get all the platnium features if you wanted in the future. Not sure who asked for this version it seems like a step back. Handgaurd looks to be mounted better with clamshell desgin to tighten it down better. Bolt release/mag different and not extended like on the others by the looks as well.
If someone was going to order a platinum what parts are must have right away. I’m thinking the charging handle brass deflector and side cover. Just considering one since I don’t think I’ll ever see a nr Bren 2 in stock before the govt does something stupid on the way out.
