Utterly Mad

So, here's some gun derp for you.

I have a .22 LR semi-auto rifle. It came with a standard 10-round magazine. Few years ago I went looking for a second magazine just in case. Local stores never had the 10-rounder, so I bought a 25-round mag. It's a butt-ugly monster of a magazine mocked up to resemble a STANAG magazine, and obviously meant for the version of my rifle actually mocked up to resemble an AR-15, not the standard one.

So of course it feeds horribly and is a general piece of shit. So this evening I took it apart to examine it, and noticed something. In addition to the standard added crap, it had a complete 3 out of 4 parts making up one of the standard magazines. All it needs is a floorplate.

So lacking a spare floorplate, I found I do have small amounts of half-decent sheet metal, tin snips, a hammer, a rubber mallet, standard pliers, and needlenose pliers. After one failed attempt to get a piece roughly to shape (too smol), I just left the second piece as a slightly oversize rectangle, then forced it to hug the bottom of the magazine as best as my crude tools allow.

Got it to the point where there's no play in the fitting when fiddled with, but fucked if I know if it'll even stay on with the spring under 10 cartridges of tension, let alone stand up to any handling. o3o