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My DLO has run great for the first 1500 rds. I recently cleaned it, re head spaced, and... now I have a gun that runs in 2 or 3 shot bursts. After the "last" round fires, the empty is ejected, the next round is grabbed and delinked, and loaded about 2/3 of the way into the barrel chamber. However, the bolt does not go the last few inches to go into battery. A light push on the charging handle, and I am good to go again for 2-3 more rds. I have cleaned again, re lubed, no change. What am I doing (or not doing) wrong??:confused::(
 

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Plain ol' Castrol 10-30 will work fine, actually any motor oil will work just fine, the more the merrier.

But I don't think that's your problem. Just how far did you strip the gun down to clean it? That'll give me an idea of which way to go here... too many possibilities here. Lets try to narrow it down a bit.
 

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Make sure you didnt overtighten the breech cam lock screw (The one that is on the bottom of the gun,towards the front of the bottom plate)
DLO recommends on his guns to :
turn the gun upside down,
handtighten screw,then back off 1/2 turn so the cam floats. The screw is prone to falling out during extended firing. I've lost one and found several in brass piles at KCR
 
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Yep, the breech lock cam screw needs to be staked from the inside of the gun to retain it. The cam has two opposing notches in the threded hole on the top for this purpose. Once staked properly from the inside it will not work its way out again. It must be staked from the inside becasue if you have the screw adjusted properly it will be too loose to do any staking to the bottom plate. Similarly you don't want a lock or star washer under the screw between it and the bottom plate becasue it will tighten it back up. You have to stake from the inside....and it doesn't take much, just a little peen with a big flat blade screw driver and hammer all you need. I staked mine about 4 years ago and have never touched it since and have fired tens of thousands of rounds. I do not remove the cam for cleaning.....hell, cleaning, what is that? I just wipe down the insde of the gun with a rag hit the barrel and internals with a hose down of WD40 and then dried. Reassemble and squirt it all with LSA and throw it back in the crate.

Your problem with not returing to full battery could be caused by so many things it is really hard to tell from here. Check the cam first, check the headspace, check the belt holding and belt feed pawls. Might be that last inch or so of stroke that draws the belt that is causeing the bolt to not travel the full distance. By the way, the gun should run dry....if it does not then there is something wrong. Lube just makes it work better but that thing should still run pretty much bone dry so lube alone is probably not the issue. In fact over lubing it may be masking some other issue.
 

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Make sure you didnt overtighten the breech cam lock screw (The one that is on the bottom of the gun,towards the front of the bottom plate)
DLO recommends on his guns to :
turn the gun upside down,
handtighten screw,then back off 1/2 turn so the cam floats. The screw is prone to falling out during extended firing. I've lost one and found several in brass piles at KCR
That was my thought, not too much else that could slow up a Browning. Too stiff an extractor spring will make the gun sluggish, don't know why, but I do have one extractor with a REAL stiff spring and it'll stop just short of closing for no apparent reason every 3-4 rounds. I'm gonna have to look at that someday.
 

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If the cam is good take the gun apart again and closely examine the accelarator for damage or incorrect assembly.
When I run my 50 I put a lot of lube on the top of the trunion because of the metal links. I never used a protector because I have seen them cause more issues than solutions while using them. Which brings to mind, remove the protector and see if life gets better. Nothing worse than a gun that refuses to run. Good luck.
 

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All of the above is good stuff.
But on the off chance that none of it works for you,
check the chamber ,I once had a case/head seperation
that left just the neck of the cartridge in the chamber.
It drove me crazy figuring it out.
Good luck

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If the cam is good take the gun apart again and closely examine the accelarator for damage or incorrect assembly.
When I run my 50 I put a lot of lube on the top of the trunion because of the metal links. I never used a protector because I have seen them cause more issues than solutions while using them. Which brings to mind, remove the protector and see if life gets better. Nothing worse than a gun that refuses to run. Good luck.
Duh! Forgot to mention the most obvious issue. Are you using headspsce gages? Open headspace one more click and see what happens.
 
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