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Posted: 5/13/2012 11:03:29 AM EDT
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Well, picked up my Sig 516 a while ago and finally got a chance to go to the range the other day and blast away.
Fired roughly 500-600 rounds just to get a feel for it and see if there's anything wrong (and zeroed in my PA mini red dot). Used the following rounds : Wolf steel cased, Golden Bear (brass coated steel), Lake City, American Eagle (walmart black box). Magazines were a mix of Tapco, Troy, Magpul, and regular GI mags. Ammo: Everything worked flawlessly, EXCEPT for AE. I had two really bad jams with AE ammo - bent rounds getting stuck in the chamber (in a cold gun)! Not sure what the issue was, every round looked straight before...staying away for now. I'm assuming a bad lot? Mags: 1 Magpul has a bad spring, all fit good, but I'd say the best fit is the cheapo Tapco mags and the regular steel GI mags. My buffer has visible rings on it from the bolt hitting it - but nothing visible on the bolt itself. I'll attribute it to it being new and broken in, but will definitely keep an eye on it as I shoot it more. All in all I'm happy, it worked flawlessly with the cheapest steel cased ammo out there which is a big plus. Towards the end we got it really really hot and it was still firing flawlessly. |
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sorry for the delay, here's two pictures of the chamber that I took today:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5105/20120618130813.jpg http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4048/20120618130500.jpg doesn't look half bad for firing 500+ various, mostly budget rounds. Mostly dust particles, and some lint off of the white shirt it's been wrapped in. It's been a while, but when I was in the military, I don't remember my chamber being remotely as clean after a range qual day. Granted, this is a brand new weapon, so there's less older, built up crap.. |
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