Maybe round the bullet guide, but I don't know, that might wreck it.

Sort of the same thing as M-4 feed ramps on a AR, they'll feed SP and HP ammo better than standard feed ramps, because they are cut deeper into the receiver. The standard feed ramps grab the soft point, or the hollowpoint and push the bullet into the case, because they just start where the tip of the bullet hits them, so half of the bullet's tip is on the feed ramp, and the rest is stuck into the junction between the barrel extension and the upper receiver...

 

it could be the mag, the mag latch giving the wrong angle or maybe the bullet guide. i would check out the weapon in that order.

AKs usually feed very well so you have something off there for one to miss feed like that.

 

there are a few things. the Mag height could be wrong. I have beeen adding material to the feed ramp edge and extending it as far back as possable to aid the feeding of soft points. I also champer the barrel very slightly on some.. Id have to see your perticulatr gun see what its doing. Pull the cover and cycle it slowly by hand and see what is doing. is it hitting the bottom of the barrel and not sliding nto the chamber? to high of a mag cancause that or two low of a bullet guide. if it is barley catching the barrel a light champer can help it. DO NOT GO VERY FAR INTO THE BARREL JUST ROUND THE EDGE.

if it slips over the bullet guide ok but hits the barrel solidly and a champher wont help it then you can possably rise the edge of the gude up and or extend it toward the mag some buy welding additonal metal onto it. you may also be able to add a thicker selector stop under the trigger guard or a shim to angle the back of the mag down and kick the bullet end of the round up. all f this will reguire some major work other than ramping the barrel slightly.

I do a lot of work on these on my hunting stuff and varmit AK,s to prevent bullet tip deformation with soft points but it is also why a hollow point will jam. the point flat point will not ride over the edge of the barrel. My varmit 223 build has problems with hollow points.

Try a few differant mags first some mags are better than others .

 

Thanks for the help, ill try some of those ideas and see what i can do to get it to work

 

First thing to do is shoot some fmj through it, to loosen it up (assuming you already cleaned it throughly, twice).
If that doesn't work then you can tweak it.

 

it brings the HP round out and hits it flush with the bottom of the barrel, jamming it. i ran some FMJ through the cycle fed no problem, i will have to see if i can break it in a little with FMJ then try the HP again.

 

How about taking a round file and removing just a little bit of material from the bottom of the feed lips on your magazine. This would/should allow the bullet to sit a little higher.

 

I've had an SAR1 since 2002. I've put thousands of rounds through it. To this day, Wolf hollow point will have at least one failure to feed in any of my 20 thirty round magazines. Fmj has never failed-not once.

 

it brings the HP round out and hits it flush with the bottom of the barrel, jamming it

how close is it from going into the chamber when that happens??

If it is tight at the edge a light champer/ ramping may be all it needs. you cant do much or it will wreak the barrel but the edge can be rounded and very slightly champher with no issues. adjusting the feed lips on a mag may get it to work as well as mentioned above may work as well

 

My very first MAK90 did the same thing. Would not feed HP, FMJ no problems. I carefully filed off a small amount of metal from the feed ramp on the barrel. I smoothed it out and after that, no problems.

 

I just stopped buying HP in 7.62x39. My SAR1 is more accurate with FMJ anyway.

 

Its doing this, i'm not sure if it would be a good idea to try to file that edge a little or what, anyone know of this problem and how they fixed it?

 

Run 100 to 200 rounds of FMJ through it before you start tweaking things. I had a SAR-3 that took about 150 rounds to settle down and function with everything. The first thing you do on any semi-auto with feeding issues is change magazines and see if the problem goes away. I wouldn't sweat malfunctions with HP until you have broke the gun in.