Does anyone have any 1st hand / personal experience with the OLYARMS 9mm crbine that uses Glock Mags?
Likes, Dislikes, Issues, Problems, No problems, accuracy, durability, ETC. I have received a lot of opinions but no one has had direct experience .
Can anyone help?
i will let you know I have one on the way.
Here is my experience so far.
I shoot left handed - there is some blowback on my face on ejection - unburnt powder.
over 500 rounds - good trigger - like the mags - glock 32 rounders and 17 rounders
accuracy is good out to 50 yards - Red Dot sight - have not shot past 50 yd yet
It gets dirty at around 150 rounds and starts to fail to eject. I clean the bolt carrier and upper area - then it works find for another 150 rounds. A lot of unburnt powder in the action - blowback design!
I will try other ammo (WW white box only for now) to see if it is cleaner.
No problems other than dirt issue and extraction. It is fun and fast. Great trigger for a std AR.
only about 500 rds so far - I’ll up-date in the future.
I debated a while on whether to get the Oly or RRA. I hope I made the right decision. Cleaning the oly on 150 rounds sound like a pain.
Not really! Just break it open, remove bolt carrier group, spray with gun scrubber or rem oil, wipe down and relube. spry upper in boly carrier area, wipe down and relube. about 2 minutes atr the range.
i am hoping a break in period will loosen tolorences and I can find a cleaner burning round.
Update— put another 200 rounds thru it. NO ISSUES! It did get dirt again but no failures to eject. Total round count is just over 800. It appears that it may be broken it but I will try another 200 or so before Iclean it just to see what happens.
Still using WW White Box.
I didn’t realize how cheap 9mm was to reload. Doy you think that a +p load will set off tannerite?
Ihave no experience with Tannerite. Too dangerous for me. Try the ammo forum. I’m just looking for other 9mm Oly users to get some 1st hand info.
Just to see what would happen, I went over 1000 rounds of my cast bullet reloads in my Oly 9mm AR (STEN mag version) without cleaning, and I had no malfunctions at all. I did spray a little RemOil on the bolt carrier a few times throughout the 1000 rounds, but no cleaning.
I only made it through a full 32 round mag three times in my Colt 9mm AR without a malfunction. Actually, both of my 9mm Colts were like that, and the four 9mm Colts owned or previously owned by my friends were just about as reliable, too.
It sounds like it was just your Oly breaking in. You shouldn’t run into misfeeds now.
Thanks for the feedback - I have not seen or communicated with another actual owner. So far it is acceptable. I keep up-dating this as I get more info.
Guess who’s the owner of a new Oly arms 9mm? Thats right I am and I am going to shoot the hell out of it tomorrow. Range report later.
Matt
I had one for a little while. It was very accurate and reliable w/every mag from a 10rd g-26 mag to a 33rd mag. The mag release was flush to the receiver, compared to a normal style AR, but I could live w/it.
I ended up selling it mainly for visual reasons as I just hated the junky look of the BHO “bar” on the left side of the receiver.
I ended up building a dedicated SBR in 9mm…
scottMO
Let us know what happens! Congratulations on the new toy
My buddy bought one last year. He let me shoot it a little, seems like a nice gun with a flat top and plastic handguard with integral accessory rail. In about 200 - 300 rounds that I’ve been exposed to, it never had a single malfunction. I helped him install and zero in an Aimpoint ML3 yesterday. It shot dead on at 50 yds. with less than 2" groups with very good trigger.
Range Up-date
Put another 300 rounds thru it today. No failures of any type. I used G26, G19, G17 along with the Glock 33 rounders. All functioned. It now has 600 rounds since the last cleaning. It is DIRTY! I should let it go and shoot to failure but my clean gene is about to take over. I’ve got about 7 dirty weapons so I’ll start cleaning tonight.
So far so good. Not bad for a fun gun!!! Total round count about 1100+. I still am not used to the mag release or the bolt release. They function OK but look and feel “diiferent”. I added a CAA cheek piece to the stock and a ERGO grip. I am going to added a ambi safety - I shoot left handed - It should make life easier. Accuracy at 50 yds is acceptable. It groups as big as the red dot - I think it’s a 4 minute dot. I’m getting about 2 to 2 1/2inches at 50 yds. I think that’s OK for the size of the dot. I got smaller groups last week with the iron sights but I did not save the targets to measure. Only thing I don’t like, the rear sight is not centered. I had to move it about half way left to get it centered. It appears that the front sight may be a little off. But with the dot, I don’t really care as long as it hits center.
Does the RRA take Glock magazines?
NO - if it did, I would have bought it.
The 9mm Olyarms carbine self distructed this weekend. The 1st two 10 round mags worked OK. The next 33 rounder started with problems and ended in disappointment. After a couple of rounds, it started to fail to eject. Then I had a failure to fire. Then I had another failure to fire but I could not pull back the charging handle to clear the weapon. I had to remove the upper to clear it. When I opened it, the disconnector was just laying there. The pin had broken in half. I also noticed that the hammer pin was backing out on one side. It too was broken. I have called Olyarms and left a message to call back. I am waiting.
Yes - I know – You told me so!!!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I think Oly was on to something with this design, but unfortunately their follow-through sucks.
Well on the upside… I can add this event to my OLY failure file. It’s been a while since I added something to it since most shooters here avoid Oly.