AR One Shot Wonder !!!!

[roadrunner681]

I am going to chime in with the others and tell you to try real ammo, brass cased to start with before you blame your rifle for Tula junk not cycling. I might as well have burned my money instead of throwing it away on a case of Tula .223.

It is so poorly loaded that some round fire ok, and some when I remove them from the chamber when they don't eject properly are ice cold. And this is from a Norinco 84S-1 as well as a Romanian SAR-3 that until trying the Tula would cycle anything as a good AK variant should. To say they wouldn't cycle my closer tolerance M4gery is an understatement.

Try some good brass ammo before you blame your rifle.

agreed if a ak is having issues with it you need some different ammo.

 

[stephen87]

Break it in with good ammo before trying to run under powered Tula junk.

I think we have a weiner! It sounds like it's not chamber a round, which is probably caused by the bolt not coming back far enough to allow a round to chamber.

 

[Cerberus]

Tula was the only steel case ammo my PSA would not run reliably with. Kept ripping out the rim.

 

[Mgderf]

Probably not your issue, but it was a first for me.
I had the identical one-shot-wonder situation at the range two days ago with my AR15 in 7.62x39.
Upon inspection I found that one of the feed lips on my mag were bent down.
I remembered dropping that mag when I pulled it out of my range bag, but I had not really looked at it when I picked it up.
It took about 15 seconds with a crescent wrench to straighten out the feed lip and now it runs just fine again.

Long way of asking, are you sure it's your rifle, and not a mag issue?

 

[phylodog]

Surprised no one has mentioned the gas carrier key yet. You'll want to make sure it's tight and properly staked.

 

[JDvader]

If you haven't already checked, make sure your after market gas block is rock solid. I had trouble trying to switch to a low profile block. It was a clamp on style, and even with thread locker it would back off the gas port. I could fire the first shot or two, then it would short stroke and fail to feed the next round.