well well well. let's all pile on dj while he's down.
shufflebutt - point taken. you may have been accidentally caught in friendly fire. i'm moving your name over to my list of BFFs and moving txhunt to my list of douche nozzles. yea, they're still friends too, but i feel i need to be a little harder on them.
flower... crap on the shells and in the mag from suppressed fire certainly is a problem. so yes, i clean the mags often. for anyone who doesn't shoot suppressed, here's a mag from the 308
everything on the 6.8 was clean. that was just the first time i loaded up the mag. i really think that was the problem. since it was dark when all jams occurred, and i didn't have time to look at it, i really don't know what was going on in the magwell or ejection port area. i just dropped the mag, racked the bolt, stuffed the mag back and racked the bolt again. when i had timing or dirt jams on the 308, there was almost always an empty stuck somewhere in the equation. none of my 6.8 empties were stuck and none looked like they were rammed in the side by the bolt.
as far as wearing off the charging handle latch from the receiver with the gas buster charging handle on the 308, that was from loading and unloading. i oil the part that slides in the top of the receiver and sometimes the latch spring, but not the hook part of the latch itself.
and i don't even know what 3 gun is, but is sounds like something i can do when i'm too old to hunt. sorta like golf.
scram... nothing is free. you're gonna pay one way or another
. It goes in the RIGHT WAY
