110 round drum for 10/22.....

I have no problems loading it the trick is to only turn it enough that the round barely slides in push it down with the round not by turning it the whole way just enough room to cram it in that seems to be the sweet spot for loading it. Once you find that sweet spot loading it is easy just takes a while and you get allot of practice loading in 110 rounds at a time. Then let it go all the way up at the end then repeat.
 
Mine aint the " canada approved" that took years to get hear but it works fine with federal bulk
 
I don't get it, people either love or hate blue line. I remember people jumping on them when they blew out their stripped lowers. I guess some had issues. I have one and a gsg drum. both work flawless. I do however hate their website FWIW.
 
haha49 said:
I have no problems loading it the trick is to only turn it enough that the round barely slides in push it down with the round not by turning it the whole way just enough room to cram it in that seems to be the sweet spot for loading it. Once you find that sweet spot loading it is easy just takes a while and you get allot of practice loading in 110 rounds at a time. Then let it go all the way up at the end then repeat.
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Yes, that's sounds right...don't turn the wheel enough to "make room" for the round...just turn it enough to START to make room for it, and then push the round down in - it's a balance.

A couple times I have had to start again before I got to 10 rounds...I just shook them all out. It gets easier after about 15-20 rounds....
 
Skip4Play said:
maybe an instructional video on how to load would help, I am positive I am not doing anything wrong but I guess there could be a very, very slim chance I am doing something wrong, in which case the directions that come with it are incorrect
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It sucks that yours is not working right. I have had terrible luck with the aa922 mags...0/3 so far....for 6 months I left my 10/22 nomad at home, disgusted with it, all because of the mags!
All I can say is that it's a matter of balancing turning the wheel with the little thumb plates on the back, and at the same time pushing down the round. You want to always be pushing down on the round - turning the wheel just "helps" it go down. Don't turn the wheel too far so that the round just falls down into the mag - if that happens, I kinda shake it until it comes back up...sometimes it even falls out.

I might try to make a crude video, and see if there is something I am doing that you're missing. As usual, the directions DO kinda suck.
I am on youtube already firing with this mag...I'll see if I can make a loading video that doesn't suck, to go with it...
 
I've stayed away from the 10/22 drum mags. The 50 rounds are junk. I guessed that the 110 rounds would have the same issues. Guess I was right. I have the street sweeper am-180 drum mag from my SU-22 so I'm not new to drum mags! However mine holds 275 rounds but is way more expensive. It does work flawlessly. Happy happy!
I went the 50 round BX25x2 mags. Being from ruger, it works just as well as the ten round mags.
 
I just got the GSG 110RND today, not from blueline though, and while I haven't shot with it, I have no problems loading it. I got 110 rounds in with no big issues once I figured out how it was done, and then I emptied them all out again.

I hope it shoots as well as the youtube videos and other threads suggest.
 
Mine aint the " canada approved" that took years to get hear but it works fine...
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Same here. It took a bit of practice to get the swing of loading it, but I have 2 of them now, and no problems at all. Mag dumped them both a half dozen times so far, no jams or stovepipes... Run way better than Butler Creek steel lips or those garbage HC3R mags I hate so very, very much.

Bit of patience and practice loading, and you should be fine.

For what it's worth: The ONLY thing I run through my 10/22 are CCI Mini Mags, the infamous "waxed" rounds. I did a bunch of grouping with my 10/22, and I get by far and away the best results with that ammo, even vs. Federal HV Match. Every barrel is different, so I keep a smorgasbord of ammo for grouping when I break out a new plinker. And that's all I run through the GSG mag, and just no issues at all. I think 1 stovepipe out of a dozen mag dumps so far.

HOWEVER, I handed it to a buddy at the range one day, and it took him about 30 seconds to cartwheel a round down the neck and jam it up royally. From which I learned two things:

1. Don't back the spring off too much, just take enough pressure off it to make it easier to push the next round it. He'd completely wound the spring back good enough for a dozen rounds and taken all the pressure off it, allowing the round to pinwheel down the neck.

2. That particular buddy doesn't get to borrow anything boomstick related from me anymore. Except maybe my Mosin, because that would be hard to screw up. Heck, afterwards, I looked at his SKS he was having trouble with, and there was a half pound of rust in the barrel and gas block. He actually believed it when someone told him SKS's don't need cleaning, and then proceeded to run surplus corrosive through it all summer without once breaking it down for a cleaning.

Your Mileage May Vary. I'm just another internet forum crank.
 
MkivSupra said:
Ah damn hopefully someone can chime in who's had success with these mags then, that was going to be my next purchase
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I have the GSG 100 round mag drum . They are a little tricky to load at first , once you get the hang of it ......it's pretty easy to do . I have loaded mine about ten times with no failures . the first 10 rounds are the worst , after that it's smooth sailing . Only problem I've found is that it's too easy to empty it ( big smile) . I'm using bulk ammo btw .
 
For what it's worth, I cobbled up a quick video of how I load my GSG drum - just in case some of the earlier posters may have been missing some detail or another. The descriptions I have read here sound pretty much the same - it's a matter of finding the balance between pushing the rounds down, and advancing the disc.
Better that, than a defective unit.
I love mine...far more than any of my three aa922s, none of which can be emptied without a failure.
Cheers
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...8-Here-s-how-I-load-my-GSG-110-round-drum-mag
 
baD mR fRosTy said:
For what it's worth, I cobbled up a quick video of how I load my GSG drum - just in case some of the earlier posters may have been missing some detail or another. The descriptions I have read here sound pretty much the same - it's a matter of finding the balance between pushing the rounds down, and advancing the disc.
Better that, than a defective unit.
I love mine...far more than any of my three aa922s, none of which can be emptied without a failure.
Cheers
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...8-Here-s-how-I-load-my-GSG-110-round-drum-mag
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Thanks for posting
 
Hi Skip4Play,

I apologize for the issues you are having with your drums. We have seen very few issues with these new drums and we are currently trying to create a how-to video on loading the magazine. As others have said it can be a little tricky the first time but after that it is a fairly routine process. If you are having issues with your current drum please feel free to contact us directly and I will make sure you are taken care of.

Cheers,
Ryan


Skip4Play said:
Has anyone else come to the conclusion that these are absolute garbage? I am going to pick up a third one tomorrow and if that does not work there defiantly wont be a 4th. Anyone else experiencing problems with those damn dummy rounds going sideways and jamming after loading 10-15 rounds? Or the first dummy round coming right off that dumb elastic band? Sorry to rant but geez... if it was $50 I would suck it up but for $110+ I would hope it works like a top. Any suggestions would help
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Picked up a new one today, works like a charm! Brought some rounds with me to be 100% sure it worked before I left and voila, I could instantly tell this one was loading much, much smoother. Apparently some higher power thought it would be funny to give me 2 defective ones in a row lol..

The only problem I run into now is the occasional light primer strike (maybe 3-10 of the 110 rounds). Any solutions for that?



Blue Line said:
Hi Skip4Play,

I apologize for the issues you are having with your drums. We have seen very few issues with these new drums and we are currently trying to create a how-to video on loading the magazine. As others have said it can be a little tricky the first time but after that it is a fairly routine process. If you are having issues with your current drum please feel free to contact us directly and I will make sure you are taken care of.

Cheers,
Ryan
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