The Freedom Ordnance FX-9 OWNERS thread.

Ravage said:
I am curious as to what kind of velocity you guys are seeing from these ?
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Lol, my FX-9 saw another 70 rounds today, I had the chronograph out and didn't even think to see what it was doing. Not sure it matters a whole bunch other than just for the sake of curiosity. An extra 100-200fps isn't going to mean much with a bullet that has a BC that's about the same as a musket ball.
I've shot a couple 45acp PCC's out to 200 yards on large steel plates but I don't really know if I'd call what it was doing a group. After 100 yards the 9mm accuracy seems to fall apart as well.
Within 100 yards the steel really takes a beating.


Todays shooting puts it up to 200 rounds total, I recall one stovepipe stoppage today.
 
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Stevo said:
Interesting. I've had zero of those since the bolt mod.
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I was watching while one of the guys was shooting my rifle and the bolt was coming forward before the empty had cleared the port opening, I'll have a look at it and see if there's anything I can come up with before taking a file to it.
I have 3 other buffers as well so may play around with those first.
 
cr5 said:
I was watching while one of the guys was shooting my rifle and the bolt was coming forward before the empty had cleared the port opening, I'll have a look at it and see if there's anything I can come up with before taking a file to it.
I have 3 other buffers as well so may play around with those first.
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I take it yours doesn't have the bolt mod?

None of the buffer/spring combos I tried affected the FTE problem before I did the bolt.
 
Great, thanks guys, I haven’t had any issues with mine but I’ll check the bolt anyways. The only thing that I noticed from mine are marks on the brass after extraction, like it’s hitting something hard on the way out. Puts a little dent on the spent brass.
 
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About 1000 rounds through so far. First 200 or so were definitely break in. Runs like a top now.
 
Stevo said:
How does your buffer look?
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Buffer looks fine. It is noisy as can be expected. I have an Armaspec 3.3oz stealth recoil spring to put in still.

cr5 said:
You just need to buy a grip without the beavertail and you're done :p
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I know that one looks kind of goofy, it was a spare I had. Other than the little gap between the receiver and the beavertail it feels pretty good on there.
 
stic7 said:
Buffer looks fine. It is noisy as can be expected. I have an Armaspec 3.3oz stealth recoil spring to put in still.
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I tried an armaspec in mine, I couldn't get it to charge and the bolt wouldn't go back at all. Let me know what yours does.

Thanks
 
I tried out a rifle-length spring yesterday, with standard, H1 and H3 buffers.

The H3 wouldn't reliably lock open on empty and I both the standard and H1 ran nicely. Much less felt recoil and jump with the rifle spring over the crap "carbine" spring that came with it.
 
Stevo said:
I tried out a rifle-length spring yesterday, with standard, H1 and H3 buffers.

The H3 wouldn't reliably lock open on empty and I both the standard and H1 ran nicely. Much less felt recoil and jump with the rifle spring over the crap "carbine" spring that came with it.
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Glad the rifle length spring worked out for you. Thanks for the range report as well.
 
M&P 40 said:
Glad the rifle length spring worked out for you. Thanks for the range report as well.
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That was a great suggestion, thanks. I have no idea why it never occurred to me to use a rifle spring. Probably because I've never had a fixed stock AR.

Also noticed a significant improvement in group size at 25m without the gun beating itself to death on the OEM spring.
 
terBC said:
I tried an armaspec in mine, I couldn't get it to charge and the bolt wouldn't go back at all. Let me know what yours does.

Thanks
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That's disappointing to hear. I'm hoping it will work okay, I'll pop it in this weekend. Did you drop out the retainer pin or leave it in? I put the H2 in my rifle and I really like it.
 
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