I just sold this weapon: https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...20753-bushmaster-xm15-e2-upgraded-extras.html
As you can tell my confidence is through the roof on reliability. I sold this via armslist to; from what I could tell, a very trustworthy person. I asked him to contact me after he fired it. He did, and stated that there where several malfunctions ie. ftf, fte, casing stuck in chamber.
I was completely shocked!
The weapon was short stroking once I reassembled the new parts. I remedied this by installing a different buffer tube spring (already replaced the gas tube while I was making all the changes). I ran hundreds of rounds through it with no problems.
I have not fired it in about eight months. I remember oiling it down a few times during that time.
I do remember the last time I fired it was with steel case herters and using my .22lr conversion.
I don't remember cleaning after I used it last. It would be highly uncharacteristic of me not to have. So much that I didn't give it a through check before I sold it (my mistake,face palming myself over and over).
I am guessing that the dirty ammo, .22lr, and maybe the fact that it wasn't cleaned well may have built up some fouling/carbon causing all these problems.
Does this sound right? I am meeting him tomorrow to try to make this right.
This is the first time a weapon I sold was messed up. He said he will not ask for his money back (of course with my confidence I already spent it on bills), but is very disappointed. I don't want him to sell this to someone else with this problem.
Sorry for all the run on sentences. Any help would be appreicated
As you can tell my confidence is through the roof on reliability. I sold this via armslist to; from what I could tell, a very trustworthy person. I asked him to contact me after he fired it. He did, and stated that there where several malfunctions ie. ftf, fte, casing stuck in chamber.
I was completely shocked!
The weapon was short stroking once I reassembled the new parts. I remedied this by installing a different buffer tube spring (already replaced the gas tube while I was making all the changes). I ran hundreds of rounds through it with no problems.
I have not fired it in about eight months. I remember oiling it down a few times during that time.
I do remember the last time I fired it was with steel case herters and using my .22lr conversion.
I don't remember cleaning after I used it last. It would be highly uncharacteristic of me not to have. So much that I didn't give it a through check before I sold it (my mistake,face palming myself over and over).
I am guessing that the dirty ammo, .22lr, and maybe the fact that it wasn't cleaned well may have built up some fouling/carbon causing all these problems.
Does this sound right? I am meeting him tomorrow to try to make this right.
This is the first time a weapon I sold was messed up. He said he will not ask for his money back (of course with my confidence I already spent it on bills), but is very disappointed. I don't want him to sell this to someone else with this problem.
Sorry for all the run on sentences. Any help would be appreicated
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