AR suppressor problem

DiggeR12

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Apr 17, 2025
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Im trying to figure out why an AR in 7.62x39 operates fine when unsuppressed but jams every shot or every second shot when firing suppressed?

Shooting from a 16” barrel and a SilencerCo Omega300

is the rifle with suppressor on not getting enough gas to operate correctly or maybe getting to much gas and failing to operate correctly? Any ideas?

Thanks ahead of time.
 
^ I'd bet that! You're running the bolt too fast for it most likely.

Could try lower power ammo. Easiest would be to throw a heavier buffer in there and see if it changes.

Adjustable gas block or Adjustable carrier can help/fix too!
 
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I really do not think anyone can make a decent analysis of your AR issue from only the basic info provided. First off, running a 7.62 x 39 in an AR-15 is (and has always been) temperamental since the 7.62x39 cartridge was made for a magazine that is curved (like an AK magazine), but since and AR-15 has a straight mag well, there's always a magazine and feeding issue because the magazine needs to be straight for the first few inches. Even if a feeding issue does not always present, the situation is temperamental at best with a 7.62x39 in an AR-15. Second, to properly analyze things one needs to see exactly how the jams are occurring and how the cartridges become stuck. Not all jams are the same. I keep seeing posts about over gassing in AR's but, in truth, by their very gas system design, over gassing is almost a non-existent issue in AR's. I can go into this in more detail but out of literally hundreds of AR's I have built up, worked on and test fired (many of them wildcats), I have essentially never seen over gassing to be an issue. Odds are there is something else going on than over gassing.
 
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