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Originally Posted by Recusance
...what should I be looking for to solve my problems?
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Just to clarify, are you using a rifle or carbine length receiver extension tube? Are you using the correct standard spring? What was your logic for reducing the buffer assembly weight? Have you tried it with the standard weight buffer assembly? It seems to me that a reduced weight buffer could be the cause of the symptoms you're describing
The function of the buffer is to supply additional energy to compress the action spring and to increase the time period of the spring -mass pair so that the bolt can complete all of it's functions of extraction, re-cocking the hammer, ejection, and moving past the next cartridge or locking the bolt open BEFORE the spring and buffer start their return pushing on the bolt. Only after the bolt is fully open should force be applied to the bolt, picking up a new cartridge, chambering it, and locking the bolt. It takes more gas energy to fully cycle the bolt with a light buffer than with a correct one because the spring is trying to close the bolt long before the bolt is fully open. An excessively heavy buffer won't work well either as the spring will fully compress, waste energy, give slow harsh cycling, and eventually cause damage.
I'm not saying that the only possible problem but it's the only thing I can think of which explains all of the symptoms you've described.