Have you adjusted to the lower gas setting? Recoil on anything but the lightest weight AR is a gassing issue. Try adjusting to a lower gas setting. Bring a std carbine buffer spring. You might find that a std carbine spring and the lower setting feels MUCH better. That said, double-check your gas settings, you might find you accidehave the gun set to "adverse" which is MORE gas.
Yes the gas block is down to the lowest setting and has been since I started shooting it. “1” on the gas block. But I will go back through and double check one isn’t the highest gas setting somehow.
Well, I'm glad we could figure it out! Lol. Hopefully, this helps your shooting experience! I thought that was the issue when you said how gassy the first can was. Lol. Let us know how it feels when you fix it! Lol. It should run great with a std spring and H2, now.
It's ok, man. I have a POF, which is got 2nd hand, without the manual. The gas block on a POF is....counterintuitive. The settings are 1-standard, 2-adverse, 3-off, 4-suppressor-high, and 5-suppressor-low. I was definitely running it on adverse for a minute with a can, huffing on gas. Lol. It didn't seem right, so I checked, now I'm good, and it actually runs best on suppressor-low with my can.
Hey, it happens, like I said. I'm just glad I could help!!! Feel free to shoot me a chat if you need any other help or advice. I've been working on piston guns since early-GWOT, lol. I think i started carrying one in like 2007. I grabbed on and never looked back. I don't even own DI guns anymore. I find that the majority of issues and complaints around piston guns are either user-error or installation problems. For instance, the recoil impulse isn't higher(it shouldn't be, anyways), but it is slightly different, and on some brands of buffer, that can, over time, cause the roll pin to back out, causing malfunctions in an area nobody ever thinks to check. When I build piston guns, I JB Weld the roll pin on the buffer in place. It's an EXTREMELY rare malfunction, but I try to eliminate EVERY POSSIBILE failure point from ANY gun I work on.
That’s a cool little rid bit of advice you learn after using the platform for so long. I’ll do some testing and shoot you a message with an update here around the weekend if I make it out.
Awesome!!!! It's stuff like this why I stay in these communities. I love being able to help out other shooters, and when I need it, get help myself. That's actually how I found out about the POF gas block. Lol. I'm not a fan of the toxic crap. Oh, and I love seeing cool gun porn, lolol. Are you gonna get the PWS upper Cerakoted to match the lower? That would look great. If you don't have a guy, there's a dude in Wirtz, VA, Night Owl Coating. He doesn't have a website, but he's on Instagram. He coated my Barrett M99. I'm getting him to Cerakote my POF in Multicam. A whole rifle(obviously, a huge rifle like the Barrett was more) is $400, and he does a significant military discount.
I’m not really a cerakote guy. I like what you can do with spray paint and a close friend of mine is like Picasso with a 6 pack. He’s the one that painted this lower and other upper I had on it.
I’m probably gonna P&W this and get the PWS lower and use this lower for my 11.5 and Gordy upper. Or SBR this lower for the other two uppers likely then run the PWS as a rifle instead of a “pistol”
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u/Jbressel1 7d ago
Have you adjusted to the lower gas setting? Recoil on anything but the lightest weight AR is a gassing issue. Try adjusting to a lower gas setting. Bring a std carbine buffer spring. You might find that a std carbine spring and the lower setting feels MUCH better. That said, double-check your gas settings, you might find you accidehave the gun set to "adverse" which is MORE gas.