I BOUGHT A BRAND NEW SABRE DEFENSE 556 NATO 16" FLAT TOP UPPER, INSTALLED IT ON A BRAND NEW DPMS LOWER , TIMNEY 4LBS TRIGGER SYSTEM, BRAND NEW AR15 BUFFER AND BUFFER SPRING.USED BRAND NEW FIOCCHI AMMO 55GR.BRAND NEW MAGPUL MAG SYSTEM.
THE VERY 1ST TIME AFTER BUILDING IT…GUESS WHAT…IT FIRED ONLY THE FIRST ROUND, THE CARRIER WAS NOT ABLE TO LOAD THE NEXT ROUND.OR WHEN IT DID, THE FIRE PIN WAS NOT ABLE TO FULLY STRIKE THE AMMO ,JUST A CLICK SOUND…
THE CARRIER ASSEMBLY WAS NOT EASY TO SLIDE FREELY ON THE UPPER HOUSING…NOW I LUBRICATED ALL THE CARRIER ASSEMBLY AND WILL WAIT UNTIL NEXT TIME AT SHOOTING RANGE…
DO YOU BELIEVE IT’S A PART MALFUNCTION OR JUST LACK OF USE AND LUBRICATION?
I REALLY CAN’T BELIEVE SABRE DEFENCE DIDN’ TEST IT BEFORE SHIPPING IT TO MIDWAYUSA…
if you cycle the rifle manually are you able to pull the bolt back with little effort? If you take out the buffer spring, the correct one should be 11" long. Sometimes rifle buffer springs (14") make their way into lowers and it will not work in a carbine tube. Something easy to double check, and one of the first things to start eliminating sections of the gun that could be causing problems.
an AR is easily able to fire without lube, do you have a friend that has another AR15 bolt to swap out and check if anything changes. On a normal AR the bolt carrier should move very easily even without lube.
I have another AR-15 carbine “COLT” ,that’s the same buffer and spring I used on my new build to test it…
I will put the colt carrier on it to see what happens…
Is the sabre defense gas port smaller than the other barrels ?
the spring is a carbine spring for sure ,it worked perfectly in my colt carbine.
the buffer too came from the colt for testing it…
so i will just put the Colt BCG on the sabre upper and see what happens…
I will let you know…
Aren’t assembled uppers made for easy drop in istallation?
could it be a defective part from SABRE?
BTW ,how high is the quality of sabre defense rifle parts?
Saber is suppose to be pretty good up there with Daniel Defense, Colt, BCM, etc. Mistakes can still happen obviously.
does the colt bolt feel any different inside the sabre upper cycling the rifle manually? Try sabre bolt in colt upper also to see if anything is different there. Bolts should move freely back and forth inside the carrier, and the carrier should move freely inside the upper, even without lube. Gotta keep ruling out parts.
Ive encountered a bolt once that got stuck in the carrier when pushed in and it was very hard to pull the bolt out of the carrier. It turned out the bolt carrier was out of spec and had machining marks inside where the bolt goes in, the gas rings got caught up on those machining marks.
I had a similar problem recently with a rifle I built. It wouldn’t lock the bolt back after the last round and was short stroking about every 3rd round. I swapped in an “H” buffer from my other rifle I had with me and the problem was completely eliminated.
I would perform a gas ring check and ensure that the gas rings are good. I would also make sure that the bolt carrier key is tightened and properly staked.
Carbine buffer springs should be between 10 1/16 and 11 1/4 inches long.
If everything checks out and it still will not run I would contact Sabre and send it back.
Tks iraqgunz ,the gas key is tightened and staked.
the gas ring to tell you the truth,I don’t know how to disassemble the carrier to get there…do you have any pdf manual?
tks.
that’s exactly what was not going on…there was some kind of difficulty to push the cam back and forth… so I lubricated all the parts with BENELLI MF-82 oil ,and worked manually pushing the the bolt cam back and forth a 100 times…it got easier…let’s see tommorow at the range…I am looking forward to it…
rifle length springs are 14", but its settled that he has a carbine spring
this isn’t normal. Even without lube the bolt should cam back and forth in the carrier with only slight resistance. Remove the firing pin, cam pin, bolt, look or feel into the the carrier where the bolt goes, make sure there’s no rough machining on the walls. Rough machining can interfere with the gas rings. I had a similar encounter as previously mentioned with a AR that only fired single shot due to carrier defect. We lubed the bolt, it would work fine for a little while then start malfunctioning again. I guess the gas burned off the lube and it was back to single shot. Replaced the carrier and all was well.
While at the range start swapping out bolts, carriers, uppers to get an idea what parts the problems seem to follow to do additional troubleshooting. But Im starting to suspect the bolt carrier group the most