- Joined
- Dec 12, 2022
- Messages
- 141
- Reaction score
- 80
- Points
- 28
Well I decided to build an LR-308 type "AR-10" (if that's the correct way to describe it) and I've been gathering parts. One of the parts I bought was a bolt carrier assembly made by "Recoil Technologies."
I removed the bolt from the carrier and disassembled it so I could check the headspace (in conjunction with my Faxon 20" "Big Gunner" barrel), and when I attempted to reassemble the bolt carrier assembly, I found that the firing pin retainer, a cotter pin, simply will not go back into place.
I can't imagine how the manufacturer ever installed it in the first place unless some kind of a special tool was used to somehow compress/guide the open end of the cotter pin into the hole on the other side of the carrier.
I have never had any problem like this with an AR-15 bolt carrier assembly.
I'm wondering: Has anyone else here ever encountered this problem? Does anyone have any experience with a bolt carrier assembly made by "Recoil Technologies"?
I removed the bolt from the carrier and disassembled it so I could check the headspace (in conjunction with my Faxon 20" "Big Gunner" barrel), and when I attempted to reassemble the bolt carrier assembly, I found that the firing pin retainer, a cotter pin, simply will not go back into place.
I can't imagine how the manufacturer ever installed it in the first place unless some kind of a special tool was used to somehow compress/guide the open end of the cotter pin into the hole on the other side of the carrier.
I have never had any problem like this with an AR-15 bolt carrier assembly.
I'm wondering: Has anyone else here ever encountered this problem? Does anyone have any experience with a bolt carrier assembly made by "Recoil Technologies"?