Quote Originally Posted by tower06 View Post
Was out shooting my No. 4 today, and each time I was pushing the bolt forward, the bullet would not strip from the mag, and chamber. It would take some coaxing to get it to load, if I was doing slow controlled loading. If I I did it in a fast moting, it seemed to load it 90% of the time with no issue. I was only loading 5 rounds at a time to the magazine,so I am not sure if that had anything to do with it.

Anyone else have this problem? Is it the mag spring not having enough tension to push the rounds up?

Any help is appreciated.
I've had the following problems:

Weak spring that would not load when 3 or less rounds were in the magazine.

Slightly squished magazine that would trap the follower.

Feed lips closed too much...cartridge low in magazine at the front leading to jams.

Feed lips opened up too much...rear of cartridge sitting too low for the bolt to strip the round.

Also have had situations where followers and springs would simply not work with one magazine, but would with another.