Ok, so I JUST got home with my new Stag arms lower receiver. The LPK is unknown. I got it at a local shop with the LPK and stock already installed. Now this is what’s weird. I had fired it at the shop minus the upper. I get home and load it onto my bushy upper. When I rack it with no mag it doesn’t fire. The only way it does fire is if there is a mag in it. ALSO, the safety select only goes from 90 degrees to about 45. It does not fall all the way down to point on safe. Anyone let me know what’s up with it? Thanks.
Have you taken the lower apart and put it back together yet? My target AR was like that until I took it apart and reassembled it. You just never know the skill of the person assembling it.
nope. I don’t have the right tools to be able to yet. I can’t do a function test at all. I guess I was just hoping I had missed something. I will have to return it or something.
Are you saying the lower is incapable of dry firing, even eith the upper removed and no mag? But it worked in the store? If so, I’d take it back and request the shop owner fix it.
you shouldnt,it can damage your reciever.All you need is a screwdriver to take the pistol grip off,Ill bet it’s the selector detent,might have it in wrong but I know my reciever you cant put it in wrong.
Agreed. Either use thumb against hammer to control it or place something to cushion the fall. I use some chamber cleaning dental rolls sometimes when I’m dry firing a trigger, these are the same rolls Sinclair packages with their chamber cleaning rod and the same rolls your dentist shoves in your mouth while drilling and poking and whatnot.
Who installed the LPK into the lower? Was it factory installed? Did someone from the shop install it? If the answer is yes to either of the above, then just take it back.
It sounds like you have not a clue how to work on an AR, so why would you want to risk screwing it up more?
From the blurry pic you posted, it looks like whoever installed the LPK into the lower used a nail and a 10lb sledge hammer to install the bolt catch roll pin, so it is likely that they jacked something else up during the process:(
well he did Fuck my my bolt catch as the receiver is a bit scratched as you can tell. I don’t even care about that really because it is getting painted. I took it apart with a screw driver and some cloth. Used the cloth to but between metal so I didn’t scratch it. I rebuilt the whole thing from the ground up and it works fine now. Fire select and function test 100% good to go. Really easy to do actually. Thanks for the help guys.
I believe it was a combination of not only this, but the grip and spring size. The spring is a bit harder now that the new grip is on and not a normal one. So I would have to cut the spring just a bit to make it smoother. I’m not going to though. I also believe he put the hammer spring in wrong. Don’t ask how he did it, I just saw it was wrong.
FYI. I do dry fire to the palm of my hand so as to not hurt it. I never dry fire handguns either unless I use blast caps.
