Thread: 308 AR magazine help?

Originally Posted by Towely

So you are saying that when the bolt is pulled right back as far as it can go the rounds in the mag are still sitting tilted back? Sounds like something to do with spring tension (or complete lack of) in the mag. Either that or the follower is grabbing on the walls of the mag and could do with a little work with a file to free it up.

Yeah that's the one, even in a mag that isn't in the rifle if I push the stack down evenly, it rises back up nose-high. Follower seems free from the sides but the spring seems to be an AR15 spring so is way too small and inevitably goes all wonky like an accordion in there when I put the mags back together. Spring tension is pretty stiff as it's very hard, the little tags of steel bent over to stop the follower jumping out cut a mean gouge in the brass and you really have to let fly with the bolt to make it force a round out of the mag and into the chamber, provided that is, you've stuck yer finger thru the ejection port to straighten the first round haha.

Cheers man ill pull them apart again and have a go at them with the file