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bmarsh07

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Has anyone seen this before? The bottom edge of my charging handle is catching on something (maybe the cam pin?)

I've swapped through 3 charging handles- 1 factory, 2 aftermarket. Two of them are doing this.

Any solutions?
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I’ve seen it on cheap Chinese knockoffs of Radian charging handles.

What are the make of the two charging handles that are doing this? Pics of the latch end and markings?
 
The rifle is a Mossberg MMR- purchased NIB. The first time it happened was with the factory Mossberg CH.
I swapped CH's with a salty old mutt build with no specific markings and it worked fine.
This 3rd one was definitely a knock off that input in a week ago.

That's what I don't understand- the FACTORY CH did this. I can understand the knock off happening.

And what it's doing is NOT allowing it to charge. This doesn't seem to be damage from movement of the bolt, but resistance against the charging movement.

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Disclaimer: I am not a gunsmith but
My guess is gas key fitment is throwing off the height relation between BCG and CH which is why the metal has deformed into a sort of ledge.

Swap the bcg and CH and see if it changes anything, I attached a pic of one of my BCGs and CH it seems the back corner is the affected part.

If there isn’t enough engagement between That ledge on the BCG it may be what’s eating up the CH and why it has deformed it and made that ledge
 

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