Bgold, I had an upper that ejected to 1 or 2 PM, I was up to an H3 with little change in the ejection pattern before I finally mentally agreed that you just cannot fix an over gassed gun with a buffer change. You have to bite the bullet so to speak and fix the gas. Then again another strategy is to bull headedly spend $100 on buffers to no avail and find you still need to fix the gas.