I just received my new ARV today. I took it home, cleaned it, oiled it up, and took it to the range. While sighting in my new ARV, I had a failure to feed malfunction within the first 10 rounds. I didn’t think much of it because it’s a brand new gun so I chalked it up to a break-in period issue. Well it kept happening, every other round was a FTF. I was using both steel and brass ammo, and I tried 3 different magazines, all PSA mags.
My question is, has anyone else experienced this issue, and if so what was the problem? Looking at the lower and the bolt, I cannot see anything that is obviously wrong with my gun.
This is not my gun or my picture but this is what the malfunction looks like. The bullet get scraped up pretty bad, and some of the casings get banged up.
Is the Ejector and Extractor aligned? Pull the charging handle real slow and shine a flashlight in the Ejector port. I’m wondering if the Ejector needs to be tweaked a little.
Edit: can you weigh the buffer if you have a scale?
I was unable to weigh the buffer. I have a very small powder scale and it won’t measure above 2oz apparently. The extractor and ejector are fine. While inspecting the gun, I was racking the slide and riding the bolt forward slowly. I noticed a good bit of resistance where the bolt would ride over the hammer, I suspect this may actually be causing my issue. I’m going to throw another trigger in and see if this makes a difference. Here’s a picture of the ejector with an empty mag inserted. The ejector appears to be held in by two roll pins, it wiggles a little bit I’m assuming that it’s supposed to be that way though.
Ejector and feed ramp look fine. Once last thing to check is how far the bcg is traveling rearward. To check this, pull the charging handle to the rear and then stick your finger through the ejection port and push on the bcg rearward. It shouldn’t travel much farther than you can I push it. If it does, you may need a buffer spacer, although some folks use quarters. Lots of YouTube videos on the subject, and unfortunately 9mm ar and similar PCC’s sometimes have these type of issues.
I had similar issues with my PSA 9mm upper. The extractor spring was too weak, causing ejection issues that subsequently interfered with feeding. Replaced the extractor spring with a more robust one and now running 100%.
I received my ARV about a month ago and am having this exact same issue!
The failure to feed is like the rounds do not go fully into battery, and it mares the brass petty good.
At first had thought it was s break in issue, so I painfully have sent about 250 rounds down range of a variety of brands and grain. Have not had a single magazine worth of smooth shots in a row yet.
Any tips towards a fix for this would be a blessing lol, I’ve had to go back to using my hi point for matches lol!
I just bought mine 2 or 3 months ago, and there’s all of a sudden all these FTF issues. My AR-V hasn’t had any issues at all, but all I’ve shot are 115 or 124 gr FMJ. Wondering if it’s a standard user error or a real problem that’s rare but easy to report here…
So has the OP had this issue solved? Because as it sits my arv is unusable due to this same issue. Would like to work towards a solution before sending it back.
