outoftowner
Regular
- Location
- Medicine Hat, AB
Well today I am glad enough to get my pps-50. It looks awsome, the wood actually looks and feels better than what is pictured in the picture. The finish is good both on the steel and wood, although when felt the barrel underneath the shroud is a somewhat rough lathe cut, but you would never touch it unintentionally so it doesen't bother me much. The mags both look good, they are both a blued steel, so your fingerprints do show up on them which is a bit of a drag. Also the 30rd mags aren't as boxy as they seem in the photos, they are stamped together and have ridges of metal on them. But that doesen't bother me.
The 50 rd mag deserves a paragraph of its own. So I pull out the dummy rounds and run them through the 30 rounder and it works, loading it up to 30 is a pain on the thumb but we're going to figure out a mag loader for it. The 50 rounder comes with a mag loader that strongly resembles a bent paperclip, except thicker. So I thought you know stick the rounds in the top, and somehow use this bent paperclip thing in the same fashion as a glock mag loader. Well the rounds weren't pushing down so I'm thinking crap I got a bad one". But then I remember that on tommygun magazines they have to be wound. So I see if I can wind it, I can't so I take the back cover off. Well it is about as simple as it can get there. There are 3 plastic 'fake' rounds acting as the floor plate to the drum, as in they will not go up to the chamber but follow the actual .22 rounds. So I twist the drum back and just stick the rounds into the slots, which I now feel stupid for not doing earlier. I have yet to fire it, heading out to the range on thursday maybe. But all together its going really good.
The 50 rd mag deserves a paragraph of its own. So I pull out the dummy rounds and run them through the 30 rounder and it works, loading it up to 30 is a pain on the thumb but we're going to figure out a mag loader for it. The 50 rounder comes with a mag loader that strongly resembles a bent paperclip, except thicker. So I thought you know stick the rounds in the top, and somehow use this bent paperclip thing in the same fashion as a glock mag loader. Well the rounds weren't pushing down so I'm thinking crap I got a bad one". But then I remember that on tommygun magazines they have to be wound. So I see if I can wind it, I can't so I take the back cover off. Well it is about as simple as it can get there. There are 3 plastic 'fake' rounds acting as the floor plate to the drum, as in they will not go up to the chamber but follow the actual .22 rounds. So I twist the drum back and just stick the rounds into the slots, which I now feel stupid for not doing earlier. I have yet to fire it, heading out to the range on thursday maybe. But all together its going really good.
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Thanks for the tips in this thread. 
