Pinning high-cap pistol mags?
- Thread starter Onagoth
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first off they are not "high cap mags." that is just buying into the liberal press bull#### and implies that somehow we are doing something illegal.
As for pinning hand gun magazines using rivets, STI in Canada use that method with no problems in performance. the problem comes when you want to clean your magazines and trying to get the followers to slide by the block. it does take a bit of patience but you can do it.
As for pinning hand gun magazines using rivets, STI in Canada use that method with no problems in performance. the problem comes when you want to clean your magazines and trying to get the followers to slide by the block. it does take a bit of patience but you can do it.
Arredondo limiters are what I use, riveted to the base pad.
When you want to clean your magazine pull the base pad off and the limiter comes with it leaving the magazine tube easy to clean out. Much better solution than putting a rivet through the tube IMO (although that's what many people do). Keep in mind it must work with the style of base pad you use. Check out their website, they also sell kits that include a flat base pad.
When you want to clean your magazine pull the base pad off and the limiter comes with it leaving the magazine tube easy to clean out. Much better solution than putting a rivet through the tube IMO (although that's what many people do). Keep in mind it must work with the style of base pad you use. Check out their website, they also sell kits that include a flat base pad.
Are you suggesting that a drum mag designed to be used in an AR is really just a standard capacity magazine?
Anyways, all this is beside the point, yes I could of a referred to it as a standard capacity magazine in post #1, but I figured on a forum of like minded individuals....it really wouldn't be a big deal. Obviously, in typical CGN fashion.....I was wrong.
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- Prince George B.C.
Huh????
So...........are you saying Brownells is working for the ????'Red Army'?????....
They list magazines with a capacity above the OEM standard as hi-cap! They sell many 'hi-capacity magazines and parts for 'hi-capacity' mags...
Man I thought they were on our side......bummer...
John
So.......
....are you saying Brownells is working for the ????'Red Army'?????....They list magazines with a capacity above the OEM standard as hi-cap! They sell many 'hi-capacity magazines and parts for 'hi-capacity' mags...
Man I thought they were on our side...
...bummer...John
and that is the problem. people accepting the term. means we are admitting that we are using something out of the normal and it give the anti's something else to use in their propaganda "no one needs a high capacity magazine so we should ban them." it is how we lost the right to own 4" barrels.
stormbringer
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- S.W. Ontario
+18 billion
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- Prince George B.C.
Hi-cap mags have been around for many, many years and they have ALWAYS been hi-cap mags. Deal with it....
The OP asked a simple question...answer it and save the conspiracy theories and CGN version of political correctness for the OT.
John
The OP asked a simple question...answer it and save the conspiracy theories and CGN version of political correctness for the OT.
John
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- Halifax - NS
Well, then how about telling us what kind of mag you would want to pin?
Hypothetically, of course - because we all know you don't have any right now.
The type of magazine is directly related to the best reliable methods.
What works for for a STI 2011 doesn't work for a STI GP6 and so on and so on...
Well, I actually am talking about a standard glock mag, 17 rounds. I have spoken to people who use custom rivets, but can't remember where they said to get them. Apparently, with the custom rivets, you don't need to file them down to have a nice fit in the mag well.
Will any type of rivet gun work....like say a CT special? I saw a little blurb on your website about pinned mags, but I think it was only for STI mags.
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- Halifax - NS
My advice is that I'd just get some factory 10 rounders for less hassle. Unless you really need that type of mag, (IDPA shooting in the US perhaps -) so here's my thoughts.
Back when the ban came in, someone was making aluminum plugs similar to the picture of the arredondo previously in this thread. I bought a bunch and used them to plug my G22 at the time. Riveted them in. (That Glock is not used much, rarely do I need to clean the mag) They might be out there somewhere.
A lot of people who do run the "plug" from bottom method of pinning are in a gray area as to how "permanent" it is - with thier various methods of locking the plug, but I've never seen any of them in trouble. YMMV...
The Glock mag spring runs fairly tight to all mag walls, so your only reliable option is something that comes up from the bottom because anything that comes in from the sides or back could bind the spring. (STI / Para / Lg frame Tangs all have springs that float in the bodies and can get around a rivet or plate. )
Even Glock tried a couple of methods of pinning those mags until they came up with the current version.
I gave up on pinning small frame Tangs and GP6 mags - it's too much hassle compared to a factory 10 rounder with dents. The 2011 modified mags I currently sell have been seized by one police authority and they passed muster so I'm satisfied with them.
There are two types of rivets at CT - a tapered fit and a rounded fit - perhaps your friend was talking about the tapered ones (as custom) My rivet gun is air powered because I do so many, but a CT one will do just fine.
Best of luck...
