Looking for someone with some knowledge on one of these rifles. A buddy has one that he’s been blowing primers with Blew the tip off a firing pin. And blew a charging handle in half. All done with factory hornady ammo. Sent it back to the factory and they had there engineers look at it for about 4 months and found nothing wrong He wants to know what he can change to make it reliable. Heavier buffer spring. Heavier buffer. Adjustable gas block.??? Just looking for ideas now
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What about a company for aftermarket parts??
IIRC the DPMS Recon has a SS barrel with a true .223 chamber. Is he using .223 or 5.56 spec ammo? That would explain the blown primers, but the other issues are a major concern.
DPMS rifles are also notoriously over gassed so an H or H2 buffer would be a good start.
Dpms recon g2 is a .308 cal
Its a dpms…not worth using up bandwidth here to discuss…
I don’t know about that model, but wanted to say if it’s blowing chunks off the rifle, I’d quit shooting it. Not being a dick.
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Absolutely zero reason to own a DPMS in 2017. At one point years ago there weren’t many .308 AR options so it was kinda understandable for a range gun.
Not today.
Oh. I hear ya. One of my buddies owns it and is having problems. He doesn’t want to sell it so I figured I’d help him find a solution to fix it. I hate those thing
A 308 AR in the $1K range… you get what you paid for…
Armalite AR-10As can be had in that range, and they are generally far better than DPMS.
I would say when someone else releases a small frame .308 in the $1k range it would be accurate to say there is no reason to own one. Until then I can see a good reason. I bought one knowing I would be changing some things to make it run like I want it to. They are notoriously over gassed, so I would start by either changing the receiver extension to a true AR10 length with a true AR10 buffer or use an adjustable gas block. I did both for the fact that I can use a standard buffer instead of the stubby one. Another thing to look for is the firing pin hole in the bolt as the early models were severely over-sized and DPMS will correct it. Even with the changes I made the rifle is still sub $1800 and I more than likely would have made the same changes on any other .308 I would have purchased.
Was this Hornady Superformance ammo by any chance?
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Wasn’t Remington supposed to release a “militarized” G2?
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Most reviews I’ve seen are, “meh…”
I have the DPMS GII and while not a ~$2500 rifle, does what I expect it to when I shoot it. I don’t expect it to shoot like a ~$2,500 rifle and use it like a a tool out of my toolbox when I don’t don’t need expensive super precise tools.
I’m going to hazard a guess that his problems are ammo related. Does this rifle have problems with common ‘Wal-mart available’ modern commercial ammunition? Or, are we talking about old mil-surplus with unknown handling and storage or something else?
The first thing that needs to be done to the GII is put an adjustable gas block on it. Mine shoots nice with the gas turned down properly and shoots sub moa.
As to it blowing primers, I would look at the ammo first. Shooting really hot ammo in an auto isn’t a good idea IMO.
He shoots nothing but hornady 168 gr amax rounds. It’s issued to him
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Sounds like an ammo issue. My guess is he is using Hornady Super Performance. Does the problem occur with other ammunition brands? I have a DPMS Gen 2 Hunter with 20 inch barrel. I run fairly stout 165 and 168 grain hand loads for elk. Never had an issue with blown primers or reliability, MOA or better with most ammo, it has a nice 2 stage trigger, weighs just over 7 lbs with a carbine receiver extension and is just slightly longer than my 16 inch 5.56 carbines. There is nothing else out there that I am aware of at any price that offers such a slim and lightweight receiver.
You might want to ask your questions over on the 308AR forum. Plenty of guys there with a ton of experience and willing to help.