Utterly Mad

It looks like shit. I guess it's functional but...

I am saddragon that my jury-rigged magazine floorplate idea gets no mockery nor conjecture on if it'll work. :V

I am saddragon that my jury-rigged magazine floorplate idea gets no mockery nor conjecture on if it'll work. :V

Well we wont know if it's dumb or not until you test it out

I actually very much enjoy the look of Austrian guns.

Steyr-Hahn and Roth-Steyr for life, m9.

I'm guessing you have a Mossberg based on the description (ok, so it's a total guess). Having no idea whatsoever as to what sort of fabricating skills you have, I can't really speak to if your fix will work. Given how simple the factory mags are, and that you're a clever dragon, you should be able to make it work at least "ok".

The only place I can forsee a ton of trouble is in re-sizing the spring. The pressure required to reliably feed anything relying on blowback is a bit of a fixed commodity. Too little pressure and it won't feed. Too much pressure and it will cause the action to bind. Err on the side of "way too much", as it's only a 25 round spring.

Worse come to worse, I could probably walk you through how to make a working 5 round mag out of it.

...yep, a Mossberg 702. The spring is, well...actually two springs separated by a little plastic guide thing, and both seem the same general dimensions as expected of a 10-round magazine.

well question is whether sheet metal malleable enough to bend in place with various hand tools will stay on if the spring is compressed. I keep forgetting I should at least put rounds in the mag to test it.

And of course, I have neither in the building to look at right now.

If I recall though, the factory 702 mag (good guess, eh?) has it's baseplate held in place by a roll in the mag body itself, like a savage 64 mag. That said, the smarter way to do this is to probably flair the bottom of the body (if you can do this - there's a fine line between enough flair and effectively breaking the thing or now having a 9 round mag) , oversize your new plate, then fold and pinch the edges on. for good measure, divot the front and back.

It should stay on just fine. They aren't exactly high quality mags and the spring pressure is pretty low. All that said, fixing mags is something myself and the other people here never touch, as it's usually more fucking around than it's worth. So take that how you want.

Alternatively, you could use some of your handy sheet metal to make a less-trash feeling 715T out of the gun. That would be lulz.

Subverting a word filter is typically a bannable offense on most forums.

*chuckle*

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