Bolt Stick?

[paintballman333]

What is bolt stick exactly? Also does anyone know how to fix it (no level ten)? And one more thing when air is shooting out of the back of the Regulator Nut how can I fix that is it just that my velocity is too high? Thanks

[athomas]

Bolt stick on a level 7 is caused when the bolt can't go back far enough to allow the sear to latch. This can be casued by a weak bolt spring, or a power tube o-ring spacer than is too short for the bolt/sear setup. Both are easily repaired. Replace a weak bolt spring with a new one if the old one is not longer than the bolt nose by about 1/4". Put a longer power tube spacer in the power tube if the new bolt spring still doesn't fix the problem. Go to a spacer that is just long enough to work. A spacer that is too long can cause leaking down the barrel while at rest.

Leaking out the back of the velocity regulator can be caused by a velocity that is too high. Fixing this could be as easy as turning down the velocity or if that doesn't work, replace the bad regulator seat o-ring. Another leak out the back could be the o-ring around the outside of the regulator piston assembly. Its an easy fix too.

[Strider]

This might be a odd suggestion, but most of the bolt stick problems I've ever seen were related to having a dirty mag.

Take it apart and clean everything.

[athomas]

Dirt could be the culprit in most mag problems actually. like Strider said, clean the mag and the internals of the valve. You can check the o-rings at that time. Quite often the o-rings are ok but a piece of dirt causes a leak or sticking.

[paintballman333]

Thanks guys cleaning the mag worked.