Well I've got some good news, took it out to the range about 2 weeks ago and the rifle didn't stovepipe once, this was with Serbian Prvi Partizan 5.56 x 45 ammunition (brass), Aquila Mexican Ammo .223, Czech Sellier-Bellot .223, and Russian WOLF .223. I was mainly getting stovepipes with the Aquila in the past and now it looks like the problems are gone. The gun smith fixed the gas port as it was too big and set the barrel back.
The rifle was extremely accurate, I was really surprised, the bolt lugs appear to be fine and the receiver is ok, but I don't know how the rifle will last long term, I put about 105 rounds downrange without any significant problems or brass stretching. Brass stretching is usually a sign of headspace loss. I'm a little nervous about this rifle as a primary weapon but I may as well shoot the hell out of it until I can no longer use it, just a shame that it wasn't built to the same specs as the Israeli receivers. Then again, I might be lucky and maybe the receiver has "set it's self in" but I will have to periodically keep an eye on the lugs. If I can get to the 1000 round mark without any problems, I think i'll be confident with the build, but I definitely don't trust the company Ohio Rapid Fire who offers the receivers.
Personally I feel it was a waste of $1000.00 when I bought it at the time, what's even more sad is that you can get them with Century Arms for $599.99 since all the companies are closing out, then again the Century stuff is made to even worse specs since the guys get paid like 50 cents an hour to assemble them and use like a spraypaint type of finish. The prices are slowly going back up though since parts kits are extremely scarce for Galils now.
Topic: Galil failed on me :(, getting rid of it (Read 13342 times)