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Originally posted by cyclops
What exactly are they doing? It may be the way the feed ramp meets the mag. If so, stone it till it meets.(seen that before) It may be the engagement is too low or too high. It may be the ears arnt hold the rouds well enough or too well.
What is the round(s) doing to make it not work?
Cy
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I think it is the way the feeding ram is meeting the Mags.
The rounds slam into the flat on the face of the chamber instead of angling into the chamber. not every round does it but most don't feed into the chamber, it is almost like they go straight forward and jam between the flat on the face and the bolt, but then if you clear one jam the next 3 or 5 might feed good then the next ten might jam. no rhyme or reason. The only difference I could really se was the flimsiness of the metal, and the ears that hold the rounds in the magazine are (were) bent on a flat angle in the detach mags and they were rounded (to the shape of the cartridge) on the fix mag that works. So I worked the ears on one of the detachables and made the ears rounded like the fixed ones but it still wasn't reliably feeding.
I tried bending the ears so they matched the ones on my fixed 10 round mag and it helped somewhat but the detachable mags were still no where near reliable. BTW The fixed 10 round box mag feeds flawlessly.
I was actually thinking about getting a fixed 10 round box mag and grinding the hing pin out, and welding the bottom of one of these 20 round mags to the top (part that clips into the gun) of the 10 round fixed mag and see if I can make that work. Idunno if that is completely legal to do though? It would wind up being a fixed (not detachable) mag and would be made from part of two legal mags but is it legal?? Idunno so I might not try it, whatta you guys think?