The journey to making my $400 Walmart gun a precision rifle. Needing some advice

Mstafford88 said:

So most recently I have had some issues with the cycling of this rifle. It’s not just the load or the bullet because I have made a few more of my previous load to test (soft point tip, never had a problem before)

It’s the weirdest thing because I’ll easily chamber the first round of the magazine. And no matter whether I load two rounds, three rounds or 4, the first one sticks on the next bullet in the chamber then cycles the rest perfectly fine.

The assumption is that this is a mag issue but I haven’t the slightest clue what it could be if it’s not or what I could try to fix it. If they were pointed slightly upward in the mag, every round would be doing it so I can’t really tell. Any ideas?

Brass is trimmed to proper spec and the bolt is catching the brass of the next bullet in the mag. I also tried this with an empty chamber, putting the full mag in and trying to cycle. Still hit and got stuck.

If I give it a quick, powerful “oomf” it cycles but that’s far beyond unacceptable

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