Here’s a problem new AR-15 shooters sometimes encounter: You seat a full mag in the rifle, pull the charging handle, and…. the bolt fails to go into battery. That means the bolt does not fully close, which prevents the hammer from striking the firing pin, and so the rifle won’t fire. What happened? Brownells Gun Tech™ Caleb Savant explains. The problem is usually caused by “riding” the charging handle forward – keeping your hand on it and slowing down the bolt / carrier group so it doesn’t close completely. When this happens, just hit the forward assist to push the bolt closed. (That’s actually the forward assist’s job!) To make sure the bolt goes into battery on the first try, pull that charging handle then keep your hand back when you let it go. This really applies to just about any semi-auto firearm, not just the AR-15.
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DUDE SLP NEEDED ASAP!! MY EAARS ARE BEEDING!!
What’s the optic on the rifle?
I cleared the round out but still not getting bcg to lock in, the forward assist is not working, I'm out of ideas.
Hey, some people just want to get some use out of their forward assist 😂
OIL THAT GUN GOLLY!!
That's drier than my wife when I take off my skivvies
I know that the gun is dry, and likely so itll be easier to demonstrate the issue, but LORD give that gun some oil or lube
Why didn’t the bolt catch stop the action? Mine always catches when I don’t want it to
So I have a Ruger 556 and I took it out shot about 100 rounds and when I place a new mag in and pulled the charging handle back it got stuck. Well I tried to pull the handle back it wouldn’t allow me to do so. I also tried to put it in safe mode and it wouldn’t allow me to either. Seeing that I had a hot round in I slammed the but stock on the ground safely pulling the charging handle back and it released ejecting the hot round. Well I placed the mag back in pulled the charging handle back again and it got stuck again. Now I don’t ride the charging handle and I just pull and release but I’m not sure what’s going on. I checked to see if the bolt carrier might be broken and it appears to be fine. I’m not sure what’s going on. Any suggestion?
Seen my buddies doing this (new shooters) and they think they have to ride the charging handle or it'll damage the gun. I then explain that the full force of the charging handle snapping back into place is necessary to propery chamber another round.
AT-4 available on Brownell's when?
What kind of dummy rounds were you using?
Ben Shapiro would love this dry rifle.
I bought a brand new ar and whenever I pull the bolt back. The bolt won’t push the round into the chamber. It looks like the bullet won’t go up into the chamber because there is friction
Slapping the bottom of mag in is also no bueno
Anyone else notice that NLAW in the safe behind him? 🤣😭
Isn't it nice that all these experts in the comments are leaving such great tips for a professional gun smith. He very likely could use this info in his career since he does not work for an industry staple and is not part of a highly successful yt channel with over 300K subscribers. Keep up the good work everybody. 🙄
Took a first time shooter out, I set an AR all up with a full mag and told him to just pull the trigger. He shot one round then tried to reload riding the charging handle. It was so awkward
You need some Rust-Eze
One thing i love is close to the beginning he had to correct himself about the BCG. He had to do that fast cuz he knows If you say something wrong the crazy gun people will go crazy with comments.
I did exactly this first time trying mine, and I was too stupid to use the forward assist
Does my man have an AT-4 in his gun safe?
Er, the very last thing you do in the video is ride the charging handle……
its also a good way to get a double feed
Why do you use your left hand on the charging handle to chamber a round? Like as if the rifle was a pistol.
can such a failure of the bolt to close entirely result in firing out of battery? i had a catastrophic failure last sunday, gave my gunsmith the remaining parts who wasn't able to separate the bcg from the barrel. now i'm wondering what might have caused this to prevent another gun being destroyed. i suspect a squib load since the round before failed to fire, the gun didn't cycle, recoil was low and i was stupid enough not to clear the gun and look trough the barrel.
Any info is great info ! Thank you so much. 👍
Thank you for the information helped alot.
Thank you for the video. I was eondering what mistake I kept making with the first round when loading.
Ha! I’m such a noob. My problem… or was 💯🇺🇸
Thanks for the tip. I’m new to rifles and anything helps.
Thank you
Gun sounds dryer than my ex wife