Southpaw: Ejection pattern? Too litle gas?

AR/M4 AR Technical Discussion
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Assembled a 14,5” middy. Barrel is a DD 16” that was cut down to 14,5”. Shot 500 rounds so far without any malfunctions.

I’m a lefty though and brass gets ejected att 4 o’clock / 5 o’clock often hitting my support side shoulder or earmuffs which can be annoying. With a flow through can ejection pattern shifts to 3 o’clock.

I know the ejectionpattern doesn’t tell the whole story and so far the rifle runs flawless.

But what are my options? Softer bufferspring / lighter buffer weight (3oz Carbine installed now)? Could a adjustable gas block help? Do most adjustable gas blocks ”open up” more ob higher settings than a normal low pro gasblock or is the gas port the limiting factor?

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Adjustable gas blocks only limit existing gas flow.

To be honest, it sounds like its perfectly set up for suppressed shooting.

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Agreed. Your only option would be to have the port reamed a little larger. That would be blasphemous to most of us here though.

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