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Some of you might have read my posts about the Remington R-15 and the failure to fires while using Hornady 40 grain VMAX factory loads. Well i've done some research, and I decided to break the gun down fully... bolt from bolt carrier, firing pin and all. I'm sure some might say this is common sense, and something I should have done when I bought it, but to be honest I didn't. I figured a standard cleaning / lube was good enough to get good performance from a brand new rifle.
I was wrong though. Since the full break down and a good soaking / cleaning, I now have a gun that performs. I have yet to have a failure to fire out of it, with any load I put through it.
I'll be going to the range this week with a box each of 4 different factory loads, along with a hand load. I'm going to watch how each perform, and i'll let you all know what I find.
I was starting to have doubts about the R-15 but i'm hoping I just jumped to conclusions. As long as the gun goes BANG instead of CLICK when I have a dog in the crosshairs, then I will be a happy man.
We'll see what happens...
More later....
I was wrong though. Since the full break down and a good soaking / cleaning, I now have a gun that performs. I have yet to have a failure to fire out of it, with any load I put through it.
I'll be going to the range this week with a box each of 4 different factory loads, along with a hand load. I'm going to watch how each perform, and i'll let you all know what I find.
I was starting to have doubts about the R-15 but i'm hoping I just jumped to conclusions. As long as the gun goes BANG instead of CLICK when I have a dog in the crosshairs, then I will be a happy man.

More later....