Last Round jamming, feed lip adjustment

[Peter Laidler]

No offence taken Ricky but you are making a mountain out of a molehill here. It really is a simple 2 minute fix. You are being told of palliatives and the cure is staring you in the face.

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[Beerhunter]

No offence taken Ricky but you are making a mountain out of a molehill here. It really is a simple 2 minute fix. You are being told of palliatives and the cure is staring you in the face.

I could not agree more Peter. I put up with an unreliable last round feed from my No.4 for years - due to being bone idle.

One day I sat down (as advised above and on umpteen other threads) and watched it carefully. The last round was getting hung up on the lip under the breech due to magazine not seating correctly. That fault was easily fixed because it was caused by a magazine lip not allowing the magazine go go home fully. Having fixed that, the tiniest of lip tweaks got the rifle feeding reliably - which it has done ever since.

The lessons learned: 1. Try feeding a drill round and WATCH CAREFULLY what actually happens. 2. Only remove the magazine for cleaning, those lips aren't made to suffer the wear and tear of being changed like a modern rifle or left unprotected out of the magazine well.

[Peter Laidler]

With the greatest respect Seaspriter and with the best will in the world you are complicating and making a mountain out of a molehill for what is a very simple 2 minute issue that the average most junior Armourer would be taking in his stride every day of the week. This subject has already been aired in some depth many, many times over the years on the forum. Every magazine and rifle has its own traits and vagaries. It's the nature of the beast and the very reason why the magazine was numbered to the rifle

Anyone, please feel to send in the mortars - but it really is just a simple case of the feed lips directing the projectile while the cartridge is in what we call the twilight zone. And we've gone past 4 pages and into page 5 already for want of adjusting ONE feed lip!

[GeeRam]

Sorry to bump this thread, but it was the one I found searching to solve my misfeeding issues on my No.5, usually on the 1st, 3rd or 7th round, but thanks to Peter L's explanations and I think I've solved it now with a bit of mag tab tweeking.