All very good points, thanks for the feedback. I was thinking the same (its odd that the lack of a carbon ring would cause low pressure issues bc if so brand new guns wouldn’t cycle unless using very spicy loads). Ill be at the range again later this week and I now have a garmin chrono and some black hills mk 262 factory loads to test the cycling on. That should give me a good baseline and if it still doesn’t cycle I will definitely be contacting geissele. Im done fucking around with buffer weights. Everything ran fine for hundreds/thousands of factory and hand loaded 5.56 rounds (50-77gr) with an h2 buffer plus super 42 spring.
Try reading this ,rather than Me telling You various options y)
https://www.silencercentral.com/blog/how-to-fix-your-ar-15-when-its-not-cycling/