I got out with my PSA PA10 Gen 2 last night. I got the lower months ago on a silly good deal and recently got one of their uppers on a similar silly good deal. The lower seemed fine. The upper upon first glance seemed to have a sticky charging handle, and I thought it may be bent initially but couldn't see it with my naked eye. With the BCG removed, the charging handle worked as it should. With the BCG in there it got a little sticky and I just didn't really get why until last night.
I took (2) 25rd mags, a 20rd mag and a 10rd mag out back and just cranked them all off doing a half hearted zero as I went. I was more interested in the function of the gun. I had one firing where I really don't know what happened because a round cycled and chambered, but I didn't get to pull the trigger so I just cycled the exceptionally heavy charging handle and loaded another round going about my business. Once I was done I picked up the live round that had been ejected and the primer was never hit, so I chambered it and fired it off without issue.
Upon a brief inspection shortly after firing I saw the the top of the gas key and underside of the charging handle had been rubbing and really grinding into each other. This kind of thing is a complete no go and the upper will be on it's way back to PSA for some warranty work. I'll update as I find out more, but thought I'd check here first just to confirm there's not something silly that I'm missing before I go through all of that.
Thoughts?
Before the commando's chime in, this rifle was a budget play thing that may go deer hunting. I have no intention of this being a life or liberty rifle unless it really proves itself and convinces me otherwise.
I took (2) 25rd mags, a 20rd mag and a 10rd mag out back and just cranked them all off doing a half hearted zero as I went. I was more interested in the function of the gun. I had one firing where I really don't know what happened because a round cycled and chambered, but I didn't get to pull the trigger so I just cycled the exceptionally heavy charging handle and loaded another round going about my business. Once I was done I picked up the live round that had been ejected and the primer was never hit, so I chambered it and fired it off without issue.
Upon a brief inspection shortly after firing I saw the the top of the gas key and underside of the charging handle had been rubbing and really grinding into each other. This kind of thing is a complete no go and the upper will be on it's way back to PSA for some warranty work. I'll update as I find out more, but thought I'd check here first just to confirm there's not something silly that I'm missing before I go through all of that.
Thoughts?
Before the commando's chime in, this rifle was a budget play thing that may go deer hunting. I have no intention of this being a life or liberty rifle unless it really proves itself and convinces me otherwise.