Couple weeks back I bought a complete rifle kit, except stripped lower reciever, from Del-ton. Used a saber defense lower and it all went together just fine and functions fine, til I tried to shoot it.
It chambered the first round, fired it, extracted it and cycled the bolt but then I noticed the bolt hadn’t fully closed. The bolt wouldn’t retract and I had to pull the lower off and use a bar to pry the bolt open. Turns out the round was sticking in the chamber. Cleaned the chamber and with the bolt removed I dropped a round into the chamber. It’s had to say if it fully seated but it wouldn’t fall back out so I had to push lightly with a cleaning rod. Tried 5 different brands and all have little scratch marks near the back of the case.
Figure the chamber is just a little to tight and wondered if I could fix it with just a little lapping compound. Going to call Del-ton tomorrow and see what they say but thought I’d see what others thought as well.
Tight chambers are a problem that seem to come up every so often from mfgrs on that end of the scale. You can get a chamber reamer, but if it’s a new rifle I wouldn’t try to fix it myself. I’d send it back. Making sure the barrel will chamber properly is the mfgr’s responsibility, and it’s not for someone who doesn’t have a lot of experience with that type of gunsmithing.
Hand-lapping it is a bad idea. Get it fixed right.
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THIS is an excellent idea and would be the best way to go to fix your problem.
Tell them you’d like a refund, send it back, and look at getting a LMT, Daniel Defense, or Bravo Company upper, and you’ll be stepping up from commercial grade to professional grade.
This reminds me of a family member that recently sought my advice in regards to purchasing an AR. We sat down, I explained the differences between commercial and professional grade weapons, the Chart, the whole 9 yards.
He was set to buy a DD or BCM when “some guy” at the range encouraged him to buy a DPMS, and he did:rolleyes: . Low and behold, he has the same problem with the chamber. He’s also defending his purchase tooth and nail, claiming it’s “good enough”, and he doesn’t need anything “professional”.
Guess all the knowledge, data and wisdom contained in the Chart can’t compare to “some guy”.:rolleyes:
Sorry for the slight drift, but thought it was somewhat applicable to the thread.
Hmac thanks for your advice. I talked with a very nice lady at Del-ton and they sent a UPS shipping label that day. Total turn around was 7 days. They found a small burr inside the chamber and took care of it.
Rifle shoots great and I’m quite happy with it.
I wanted to see if I could put an AR together for 600 bucks and I did. True you get what you pay for and it may not be as high of quality as the ones mentioned but I was looking for an upper that cost 800 or up. If I put another one together I might do a high end AR just to compare them but I bought what I wanted.
I checked Del-ton out across the net and found little negative on them. Gunblast said they were great rifles as well as several others. Every company is going to have one slip thru the cracks but how their customer service handles it makes the difference between good and bad companies.