Pts Radian Model 1 Double Feed/Jamming Issue

[samcw]

As title suggests, getting a double feed/jamming issue. I read that a few people were having issues with the feed lips on the mags but these are pretty much brand new mags so I'm not so sure... bit of a 🐔 up from PTS if thats the case. 

 

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. 

 

Cheers,

S

 

[PewPewLoki]

I don't have any of the PTS/LM4 platform rifles, so take this with a grain of salt, but from what I understand this is caused by the mags being 'double-stacked' and the feed lips presenting 2 BBs. The nozzle is supposed to only strip the top BB off the lips, but instead manages to grab 2, causing fun times like you mentioned - more of a design flaw than anything caused by usage or bad QC. I'm also told that this is widespread across all KWA/PTS rifles including the Tavor and ACR/Masada, but is less prevalent in the plastic mags than the metal ones.

 

A company called Unifeed makes replacement lips and followers, which you can use instead of the PTS/KWA ones so that the mag only presents 1 BB to be picked up by the nozzle and hopefully preventing the doublefeed issue. Might be worth looking into them.

 

Left and Right are PTS/KWA magazines as they come out of the factory. Middle is with the Unifeed lips and follower installed.

[samcw]

@PewPewLoki nice one, thanks for that mate. Now to get hold of some hens teeth! 

[PewPewLoki]

No worries! Wish I could help more but I've never seen these for sale in the UK and I don't know if you can buy direct as it appears they use their FB page as their business website. If you have a Facebook account it might be worth messaging their page and reaching out to them.