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This is epic Dune Moose action, circa 2006. @SmoothAction...

Indeed is was @SmoothAction on yours... Jake wrecked your dad's 400EX twice that ride - the first time was going into SuperBowl, when Al jumped off and crawled to him to make sure he was okay... That was epic - I need to find his GoPro vid of that one... Hey, even a blind monkey finds a banana once in awhile, right? All luck, brother, all luck. If he'd a been bleeding bad, I might have barfed... Here's us fucking around in Superbowl, right before Jayrod does the "I'm tired and I can't ride, so I'll just wreck" game. Definitely @SmoothAction - Douggie, confirmed. Here's a vid from the same trip - but not the wreck ride... I hit reserve on the 2-smoker, and that's no fun, as far out as we were - I left you guys and went back to camp.

Wasn't Douggie there for this one?! - that was the "Surprise Douggie Bust From The Trailer?!..." I think it was Doug on your bike. @SmoothAction, please confirm. Do it quick, before I start breaking out more pics and vids, brother...

There WAS a broken leg out there, that I did diagnose, though. Different time. Boot-top spiral fracture, tib and fib. @DNP was there, and literally saved the day. No shiit - had it not been for his Rhino, this guy was taking a helicopter ride out of the sand - but we got back to him, prepped him for movement, and put him in the back of the Rhino and got him back to camp. From there, we moved him to his truck, and someone drove him to Yuma General Hospital to get him fixed up. That was a pretty fucking epic day, right there. We put in some solid work, and got him the hell out of there, no helicopter - and no helicopter bill... $$$... Here's what we did to get him out of the wash - cut long sticks, duct-taped the fuk out of his leg to stabilized above and below the break, and stuff him in the Rhino. tried to put him in the front, but too painful. Ended up sticking him in the bed, with the tailgate down. We dressed him right, for movement. This was the x-ray composite: After the hospital pinned the hell out of him, and screwed him up tight. Dressed him up all pretty... The ER Doc wanted to know who packaged him for transport, and what the hell they knew about it, because it was the first time he'd seen long sticks and duct-tape to straighten someone out and get them moving - but it was the best thing he'd seen coming out of a dune-crash in a long time.

This was "diagnosing my kid's broken leg" that he knew he had...

Yeah, you broke him down like a shotgun, right away, too. Busted that news RIGHT out once we listened to 5 minutes of his shiit-talking about "I beat my Dad LAST YEAR, SMOKED HIM up the hill..." You let him have it. Just as he needed it, too, brother... So, since this thread is completely fucked, and it's been turned into the Eski Dune Thread, with the recent - surprise - arrival of a Brother From Another Mother... I'm gonna keep posting dune shiit. I knew from the outset, kinda - had to figure it out a little - I was being fucked with by a Dune Buddy. @AZMan is already here, so it wasn't him - but that fucker ambushed me, too... It was either Jayrod, or the Dune Moose. Turns out, Dune Moose. BUT!... for your viewing pleasure, here's some epic shiit from Jayrod... He'd been off a bike for quite awhile, and just showed up out here as a surprise. Atthe end of this ride, we determined that he hasn't ridden enough - because he was smoked. He was riding @DNP's WIFES bike - and he wrecked that bitch TWICE. Again, this is a long vid, but it's worth it. There's a loooong story about Jayrod, breaking his leg in 2009, in the Silverlake Sand Dunes in MI. He just bought a house, too - and I just moved to VA, too. His new house needed a roof, and I couldn't find work after moving to VA. I went to his casa in Cincinnatti, and we roofed that fucker in a week - with his gimp, broken-legged ass climbing up to ask us if we were doing okay. "Yeah, we're fine - bring up more BEER next time, fucker!!!" So, a few years later, Jayrod shows up - and this is Jayrod, after a few too many years off the bike. He crashed Dirk's wife's bike twice, because we wore his ass just OUT... I don't think we ever told her, back in camp, that he crashed her ride... Kept that one on the down-low... I was tail-gunner on this ride, so I got to watch it all... Just before this one, my kid crashed pretty good, and told me "he broke his leg..." That's coming up - the prior vid - as soon as I can find it.

She couldn't pull those stretch-o-matics just a LIL bit higher, and save the public?!...

BAM! Told you fuckers, too.

Oh, that happens nightly here, for me, brother...

^^^ That's the answer. Right there. The issue is that the tail of the BCG body is NOT pushing the buffer off the retainer, when you close the receivers and pin that takedown pin. There's a gap between the tail of the BCG body and the face of the buffer when the receivers are pinned and closed. That offset buffer retaining pin that JT listed will allow the buffer to come farther forward - and the BCG tail WILL push the buffer face off it, and keep it off it. Machining tolerances that are off, is the only cause of this. It can be the upper, or the lower, and I only called that lower because I have enough AP M5 uppers (and lowers) to state that it's not a problem, at all, in those sets. Only reason I said that. On functioning, I don't think that's the issue with function, and malfunctions - unless bolt bounce is the direct reason for your malfunctions. The situation that you have will definiitely cause bolt bounce. Only way to find out is fix the issue that you have, and fire that thing up and see what happens. Your buffer won't get chewed up anymore, though.

I can get after it, when the others are egging me on... That was mild, from that pic I posted - We just found a sweet jumping spot - it was like a jumping playground, in the middle of nowhere... The Insane shiit is when you ride past something and have to stop - because you saw a line that wasn't there before - and you think to yourself, "If I hit it THIS way, I can fly over THERE off this!... " Example - and my knucklehead kid filming: Since this gun safe thread is trashed already, we may as well just not stop... The start of this ride is right at the beginning of the little dunes, and ripping through them to get to the big dunes. This is the old '86 250R I got from Dirk. This is my kid - on my 450 - thinking he's gonna beat me up the hill. Fat chance. We DID play a trick on him at the end of a long weekend one year, and I let him beat me up the hill finally. Didn't say anything for a year. We get back to camp the next year, for Thanksgiving, and he starts talking ALL KINDS OF SHIIT about beating me the year before. @DNP just broke it down for him right then - "Jake, your dad LET YOU WIN last year. He LET you..." He didn't believe it, not one bit, and we were all laughing. I told him it was true - I held back, just enough to keep him barely in front of me... This was one that looked like every other race against him... Every year, he stated how much faster he was this year, yada yada, yada... I let him have it, just like normal... Notice - I gave him a second, and let him get going before I layed into it... I've got TONS of pics of Douggie, and I'm sorting through those now. I'll find some good ones to put in here, without a doubt.

That was EPIC - But Dirk let it slip in a phonecall, and I acted like I didn't hear it... and when I got out there to the dunes, I asked "Where the FUK is Douggie?..." You giggled like a motherfucker, and walked out of the trailer, and said, "HOW did you know?!!?..." That was easy - Dirk slipped, on the phone, and I caught that shiit right away... I just shut up and didn't say anything...

I had to fix that for you, brother. When is the convention/meeting down here?! When is that next meeting? We can plan the shoot around that, and you'll be paid to be here! Maybe in conjunction with it... I know it's fall 2020 for you...

Hehehehe... Uh! SI! I can break out SOOOO MANY stories about @SmoothAction here that it ain't even funny. Well, no wait - every story is funny with him. You guys have NO IDEA who you're dealing with here, but you will shortly. Me and this guy go back to about 2005, and a dream of an Eskimo to ride the sand dunes in California... ...and the ride is EPIC. What a jackass, to sneak in here like this, Douggie... I was ready to offer you 50ft of used garden hose, to test you... that would have told me if it was YOU, or Frizzi...

You NEED to be down here for Fall Shoot 2020, brother. I'm just sayin'... You know how we rock the dune rides, and trips... The Shoots here are just like that - but it's guns. Get your Eskimo Ass down here for a Fall Shoot. We're looking November-ish. PLan that out, brother, I kid you not...

You should have seen how spectaular I am when I WRECK in an MX race.... I don't play, I fuk myself up GOOD... When I wreck... I only wrecked ONCE in the dunes, and I did it right, and I fucked my 250R up good when I did it. I just rebuilt it stronger, with better aftermarket parts. Broke my hand, too, greenstick fracture, and still have the lump. Didn't get it fixed, was worthless to try to do so. Yes, that pic is me, above. That was just a good jumping spot. The REALLY CRAZY fucker in the bunch was Chris... on a Yamaha YZ-426. He's INSANE... BAD INSANE...

MOTHERFUCKER!!! THE DUNE MOOSE HAS ARISEN!!! I'm FLOOORED, BROTHER!!! Why did you buy that gay KTM Quad, brother?...

I ain't afraid of hucking something off a dune, when your buddies - the night before, think they'll play a prank on you... and dress your shiit up with a basket and tassles and a pink squeeze-horn... Whaddaya do once they do that, crawl away skeered?... Fuk no, you don't. You show them who the MAN is, and you rock that shiit all weekend in the dunes, whilst whippin' motherfuckers up the hill the whole weekend - on knobbies and not paddles... THAT is what you do. Yes, I rocked the tassles, basket, and pink squeeze-horn - and I did it WELL, too... 26 November 2006, pic was taken at 1:27pm California time. I slayed it, with the basket, tassles, and pink horn - and I kept it on there the whole weekend, too, and just ROCKED IT... You fight back against those that wish to fuk with you... and get them at their own game... Photo courtesy of @DNPOffroad... @DNP right here on this board.

We might have a Jay-Rod Fritzi on our hands here... Oooooor, a Douggiez.... Doug Swanson, Eskimo extrordianaire... By native brother from another mother... Uhhhh,... SI!

Now I feel you may be part of this plot...

That would've been YOU... Hmmm...

It's cute - when dressed up like that. And it did the job - I don't think anyone with a KTM ever beat me?... Yeah, I know I was never beat my a KTM. Next, is - let's go ride...

There's something wrong with your 80% lower receiver, and not the Aero Precision M5 upper receiver, here... I don't have chewed up buffer faces with my AP M5s - and I can tell you this before seeing any pics that you can provide - with any of my Aero M5 upper and lowers. And I have a pile of those. I HAVE had issues with chewed up buffer faces, on custom billet receivers from a very reputable company. I solved that with a product that is no longer in production, and that was the Tubb Carrier Weight System. I can tell you exactly what the cause of this problem is, and I can also tell you it's not from the Aero Precision M5 uper receiver dimensions. It's your 5D Tactical lower, only. Post pics of the buffer, for confirmation.

That KTM is cute. My last race quad is the LT-R450. I have a ton of that shiit, too, for dirt and street. My EPIC is a 1986 Honda TRX-250R that I got from @DNP as a rolling chassis and 5 milk crates of parts, 12 years ago. It's a bad bitch. People can't understand how it's 34 years old, and still kicks asses up the hill in the dunes...

Pics of this. Post them. I can tell you what the problem is, and the solution is - but the solution was discontinued several years ago. Post pics of the buffer damage.