Bartholomew Roberts
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TexasShooter - I was playing with diferent buffers in an attempt to smooth the recoil. I was doing some competive shooting with a flash hider and wanted to see if playing with buffer weights would let me smooth the recoil so my sight picture was less disturbed (a muzzle brake is the best way to do this by the way).
Other popular reasons to ply with buffers are to slow the cyclic rate to get marginal improvements in reliability or to deal with the increased backpressure generated by suppressors (whic I also have).
Bolt bounce is when the bolt returns to battery so fast that it actually hits and then rebounds a little bit. It happens when the buffer is too light for the amount of pressure cycling the rifle. Playing with size or location of the gas port, lots of heat, suppressors, adding extra barrel after the gas port all effect port pressure in ARs.
Other popular reasons to ply with buffers are to slow the cyclic rate to get marginal improvements in reliability or to deal with the increased backpressure generated by suppressors (whic I also have).
Bolt bounce is when the bolt returns to battery so fast that it actually hits and then rebounds a little bit. It happens when the buffer is too light for the amount of pressure cycling the rifle. Playing with size or location of the gas port, lots of heat, suppressors, adding extra barrel after the gas port all effect port pressure in ARs.