Mauser box magazine conversions

[ovenpaa]

I am looking at converting a Mauser to a box magazine so need a suitable bottom metal, CDI in the USA make such things however does anyone know if there is anything available over here?

[Maggot]

I am looking at converting a Mauser to a box magazine so need a suitable bottom metal, CDI in the USA make such things however does anyone know if there is anything available over here?

If you find out Dave, let me know for the M67 mate.

I would love to mag feed that, I think internal mags are potentially bloody dangerous unless the RO/Shooter are switched on, and 10 rather than 5 would be a bonus.

[Chapuis]

I am looking at converting a Mauser to a box magazine so need a suitable bottom metal, CDI in the USA make such things however does anyone know if there is anything available over here?

If you find out Dave, let me know for the M67 mate.

I would love to mag feed that, I think internal mags are potentially bloody dangerous unless the RO/Shooter are switched on, and 10 rather than 5 would be a bonus.

Rubbish! I would much prefer a rifle with a hinged floorplate magazine to one with a detachable magazine. Certainly not any more dangerous. What you are probably talking about is shooters who aren't competent and they would be just as incompetent with a detachable magazine.


Ovenpaa other than a Mauser you don't mention what rifle you wish to convert to detachable magazine. Have you looked at the Recknagel website or looked at the Alan Rhone website?

[saddler]

I am looking at converting a Mauser to a box magazine so need a suitable bottom metal, CDI in the USA make such things however does anyone know if there is anything available over here?

If you find out Dave, let me know for the M67 mate.

I would love to mag feed that, I think internal mags are potentially bloody dangerous unless the RO/Shooter are switched on, and 10 rather than 5 would be a bonus.

Rubbish! I would much prefer a rifle with a hinged floorplate magazine to one with a detachable magazine. Certainly not any more dangerous. What you are probably talking about is shooters who aren't competent and they would be just as incompetent with a detachable magazine.


Ovenpaa other than a Mauser you don't mention what rifle you wish to convert to detachable magazine. Have you looked at the Recknagel website or looked at the Alan Rhone website?

Neither my Swedish M96 nor my German G98 have hinged floorplates

The topic IS Mauser conversions

[Chapuis]

I think that they have, but they are normally locked because military rifles were always used in a different way to sporting rifles. The last thing a soldier wanted to do was to accidentally open the plate when in action dumping the contents of his magazine on the deck. For similar reasons dangerous game rifles normally had a lock fitted in addition to the normal release lever.

[DW58]

I am looking at converting a Mauser to a box magazine so need a suitable bottom metal, CDI in the USA make such things however does anyone know if there is anything available over here?

Wonders who that could be for ... ... ... ?

Is this perhaps being combined with a short re-barreling project?

[ovenpaa]

Rob, this specific project is a 9,3x64 and yes it does have a reasonably short barrel, 22" from memory.

[Maggot]

I am looking at converting a Mauser to a box magazine so need a suitable bottom metal, CDI in the USA make such things however does anyone know if there is anything available over here?

If you find out Dave, let me know for the M67 mate.

I would love to mag feed that, I think internal mags are potentially bloody dangerous unless the RO/Shooter are switched on, and 10 rather than 5 would be a bonus.

Rubbish! I would much prefer a rifle with a hinged floorplate magazine to one with a detachable magazine. Certainly not any more dangerous. What you are probably talking about is shooters who aren't competent and they would be just as incompetent with a detachable magazine.

Rubbish eh....ah well.....

Firstly the word used was potentially.

And no, I am talking about professional shooters who have a small lapse and dont check, or that bung the flag in with one still in the mag that cannot be removed.

Those highly familiar with the thing, maybe to familiar.

Seen it done more than once which as an exe (currently re-training) SAAI does not surprise me as it prevents the one critical act of any unload or make safe, which is to remove the source of the ammunition, be it belt, mag, cylinder, you name it.

Its the main and first event after applying the safety (where possible, some wont allow this without being made ready) and prior to cycling anything.

It is why I get touchy when people tell me their No4 mags wont come off and are not intended to. It was part of the drills on unload because the only other way is to cycle the bolt which means chambering a round (Or making ready so a step in the wrong direction given the plan is to make it safe). It was also part of the make safe as otherwise you would need to empty the mag, re fill your stripper clip, and then re load via the bridge charger guide rather than simply replacing the mag on a closed bolt. You can pull them one by one out of the receiver to prove a point but there you go. I wonder what the catch was there for?

I Cant see the logic in dumping clean dry rounds out the bottom of a rifle when you can simply take the mag off either, but as I say, I own a rifle with a fixed internal mag.

So, to reiterate, my point is this.

Any system where the mag can be removed has, by default, to be intrinsically safer because the source of magazine fed ammunition can be removed prior to cycling, meaning that when the bolt goes forward, you cannot re chamber a round through a lapse, tiredness, or plain ignorance.

When you hear the bang and see the small crater appear in front of one of the detail that was supposed to be making safe...you know eh needs re-programming (that was with a Browning Hi power as it goes....and I quote...."I have not done these drills with a holster before Cpl"....Nob head)

Bin there, seen it, and it still amazes me how many ROs take the presence of a breech flag as proof of a clear rifle. All it means is that there is nothing in the chamber and masks anything that may still be lurking in the mag ready to be picked up should the bolt be closed at some stage when the rifle is bagged.

And dont give me the "That would never happen because I remove the bolt" because this does not always happen and the rounds would still be in the internal mag.

[DW58]

Rob, this specific project is a 9,3x64 and yes it does have a reasonably short barrel, 22" from memory.

Ouch! 9.3x64mm is a big banger, not to be confused with 9.3x62mm.

It wasn't what I thought it was, namely a .308 Mauser.

[ovenpaa]

This one has since been respecified as needs to be stainless to match the action, now that is going to be a serious ouch.

We currently have three Mauser rifles that require work in varying forms and if nothing else it confirms my view that I 'need' another Mauser myself