I'm gonna throw this out there, because it puzzled me. Please allow me to offer a recent observation at the range.
New buddy I met at the range said lets go shooting, so off we go. He has a 6.5 Grendel AR, and shot two different boxes of store-bought ammo. I dont know jack about 6.5, Grendel, and barely jack about ARs. But this is what happened:
One variety of store bought ammo fired perfectly and cycled the rifle just fine, ejecting 4 or 5 feet at 2 o clock.
The other ammo fired, but the rifle didnt pick up the next round and he had to hand cycle. Ejection for these rounds was about one foot at 4 or 5 o clock position.
"Those first rounds are hotter," I observed, "these others wont cycle fully." hmmm, need more lube? Nah, plenty he says.
He texted me next day from the range, saying his fix for the problem was to drill a hole in the buffer tube, and lube the buffer spring. I said what? He drilled a big hole in his buffer tube, supposedly allowing AIR PRESSURE to bleed off, because his opinion was that the buffer was acting like an air piston somehow had enough seal to hinder the cycling. I said I never heard anything like that before, but he says the lower pressure ammo now works great and problem solved... (I just shrug my shoulders and call him a jarhead.) Your thoughts?
Is this even possible? For an AR buffer tube to be so airtight it actually compresses air & hinders cycling?