Any one with a grizzly mag.

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Pull the mag apart and look at this.

Thinking that we could get a 6th shell in the mag.

with 6 shells the follower only sticks out 3/16th

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maybe cut 3/8" off the bottom of the follower to fit for the spring base plate.

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Maybe these were made this way limiting them for another market and was just how they ended up being made for every body.
 
Do-able I'd say. Ill take a look at mine when I wake up today. I noticed on one of my mags it allows me to put more of the 6th round in then the other.

I just want the Olympics to pass so I can buy some more mags, hopefully the Zombie-Apocalypse waits till after then as well.
 
It is done 6 rounds.

I do need to re bend the little tabs on the bottom to retain the follower in the box, it sits in there fine but if I play with it,the follower can come out, should be simple.
 
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Is the follower more likely to get stuck with a cant? That is the only reason I can see to have the sides that tall.

I should be getting mine shortly.
NEETO!
 
I think it is so tall so the tip of the shell is pushed upwards towards the barrel more, I would suspect that with a flat follower there would be more failure to feeds.

On that reasoning the ones that wanted to swap over to a 3" barrel I would be interested in knowing if a 3" shell would even feed, seems like it might snag on the front of the mag, or even the barrel.

So if you got a 3" dummy around or bring a live one out and see if it will feed or not.
Thanks
 
darkshadow said:
I think it is so tall so the tip of the shell is pushed upwards towards the barrel more, I would suspect that with a flat follower there would be more failure to feeds.

On that reasoning the ones that wanted to swap over to a 3" barrel I would be interested in knowing if a 3" shell would even feed, seems like it might snag on the front of the mag, or even the barrel.

So if you got a 3" dummy around or bring a live one out and see if it will feed or not.
Thanks
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Yeah, I want to know this as well. I'm hoping I'll be able to swap over a 3" barrel as well as an ejector assembly so I can put 3" magnum slugs through it. Sure hope it's possible...
 
Bobby Ironsights said:
Don't mean to be a total newb but what is a "grizzly"?????

I can't get any mag fed shotguns out of google. I found the grizzly 870, and one old european tube fed, but no mag feeds.
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Click on Canada Ammo sponsor's link at the top of the page. Then go onto the shotgun forum and look up the Grizzly Mag Fed shotgun thread all the info you need is there.
 
scott said:
I'm guessing the extra space is so you can insert the full mag with the bolt closed. I bet you can't do it now can you?
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I cut it so that the 6th shell still has some room it is not just crammed in there there is some room, so 6+1 A-ok.

The only thing I need to work on it the tabs for the follower stop. I made bigger tabs but they unlike the original one catch the indents in the side of the mag and now with the cut down follower it stops shy of the top of the mag.

So I will make new stops so it sits just right, and run it for a while to make sure it functions fine before I mod my other mags.
 
More of an update on this, I cut out the little tabs on the bottom of the mag and bent them 90* then ground them down so they would fit snugly.

this let the follower catch the indents, it stops with just enough force to hold the last round snuggly.

This removes the bolt hold open feature of the mags (which I didn't really think necessary in a pump) but does let you drop an other shell in after your mag is used up with out having to flip the gun over.
 
darkshadow said:
On that reasoning the ones that wanted to swap over to a 3" barrel I would be interested in knowing if a 3" shell would even feed, seems like it might snag on the front of the mag, or even the barrel.

So if you got a 3" dummy around or bring a live one out and see if it will feed or not.
Thanks
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Apparently you don't need to swap the barrel, according to CanAm the factory barrel is chambered in 3", even though it says 2 3/4" on it.

I spent an hour this morning cycling 3" rounds through my Grizzly-Mag, it can be done but it's unreliable. Although most of the shells racked with no problems, there were lots of failures to feed. I dunno, but maybe a guy could fix this by tweaking the mag somehow.
 
I would think that if there was something bridging the gap between the feed ramp and the lip of the barrel that it would feed better.


or maybe if the bottom section of the chamber was die-grinder down to form a bit of a ramp like a pistol. I wonder if this would still be safe?



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Dumb question but since I dont I'll ask

So a MAG fed shotgun will fit in this case lets say 6 rounds... can you still put in 4 in the magazine tube? Or is it feeding JUST from the magazine?

In other words if you were to loose your mags and couldnt find a replacement would it be just a single shot Shotgun? Or can you use the mag tube?

I have no idea how it works as opposed to regular shotguns so somebody indulge me

Also no laws about modifying a magazine? (insert re-AR 5 round limit/AR Pistol 10 round limit)

Luke
 
the "mag" tube only holds the fore end on nothing else.

the box mag holds 5, maybe 6 with some work we will see if this works in the long run.

There is no limit on mags on a manual action firearm so you can do what every you want to a mag capacity as long as it is not semi auto.
 
bandicoot said:
Could you use the mag tube to store extra rounds?
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Yes, but there are a couple of little dimples near the end of the tube that you would have to grind off somehow. Otherwise you won't be able to get the extra shells in there. That would be a great place to stash a few flare rounds, or a cigar.
 
The only real problem with that is that to get them out you would have to take the cap off (not lose it) shake the shells out, (or use the spring but have nothing to retain it) with out having the barrel and bolt fall off, then stick it all back together and load the what 3 or 4 round into a mag then load that into the gun to fire.

Not exactly something for fast follow up shots.

I thought maybe to cut out the bottom of the "mag tube" a little bit near the receiver so you can load the tube like you would with a tube fed gun, leaving the spring in the tube to push the shells down so you could pull them out quick.

Maybe for a bear banger or flares or just regular shells for follow up shots to drop in the ejection port.
 
darkshadow said:
I would think that if there was something bridging the gap between the feed ramp and the lip of the barrel that it would feed better.


or maybe if the bottom section of the chamber was die-grinder down to form a bit of a ramp like a pistol. I wonder if this would still be safe?
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I took a dremel and rounded off the edge of the lower half of the chamber - the 3" shells kept getting hung up on that lip. I didn't go nuts with the dremel, just smoothed off the sharp edge a fair bit. I gotta say, the 3" shells are feeding a lot better now. I blew off a full mag of 3" slugs at the range yesterday, no failures to feed.
 
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