JasonMalone

I’m 300 shells into break in and something is definitely wrong. High brass 3 inch stuff is flawless. Nothing 2 3/4 ejects. I’m running the light piston. I hate the idea of drilling the ports.

Cleaned the hell out of it is an understatement. And yes I can easily rack the bolt and have it lock open. By hand it feeds and ejects as it should. And functions on 3 inch high speed steel as it should. The piston is clean and debris free. Last night I picked up another 100 3 inch shells and 25 more rounds of high velocity buckshot.. I’ll try beating it up again in the next few days.

I’ll give it a try thanks for the response

Ok new to the VR80, and whew 64 pages was a long read in one sitting. I’ve owned this thing for about a month. Put about 200 rounds of Remington Express XLR 2 3/4, 1 1/4 ounce 5 shot through it box is marked 1330 fps. Several boxes of 3 inch federal steel shot marked at 1550 FPS. All with the light load piston and even after extensive cleaning it will not cycle anything lighter than the express xlr listed above. It feeds ok, but but won’t cycle far enough back to eject the loads. I think it should be about broke in shouldn’t it? The gas ports feel smooth, a light in the bore makes them look clean. The action feels smooth to the hand cycling. And I’ve never had this much trouble breaking in an auto loader... take note it is all stock, no cut springs, no drilled gas ports ect. And believe me I’m getting crazy jealous of the videos all over the web of guys shooting brand new VR’s and saying they cycle anything. I’m debating on drilling the ports as mentioned a few pages back, but it seems a little hash to make this thing cycle when everybody else is having such luck with theirs. So to the folks having such luck with theirs, what might I be missing? I’m headed back to page one just to see if I missed something already in print and if I don’t find anything out comes the drill bits.