I tried her out today with some Winchester factory rounds and had no problems. I also tried several of my reloads that did fine also. All dozen rounds I fired fed and ejected as they should with no strange marks on the rims.
I had replaced the extractor with a factory one and had also replaced the gas tube even though the old one looked exactly like the new one. Looks, however, can be deceiving.
I will do some more shooting soon and hope I run into no more problems.
I am still curious about what stared the problem in the first place.
