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- South Shore, Nova Scotia
Because a few folks asked me to, I made this super-professional, high-quality, HD video of myself loading a GSG 110-round drum mag.
Lol...I don't expect I am doing anything TOO out of the ordinary, but it may help one or two guys out there, who knows. A lot of these drums (for the 10/22 and its variants) have been sold recently, and there seems to be a LOT of disappointment out there.
Which is disappointing to ME, because I LOVE the dang thing!
The fact is, before this drum mag came along, I was desperate: I had dropped all this cash on a 10/22 (last year, when they were scarce, so of course I paid too much) and an Archangel Nomad stock, (which I love)...but the weak link, for me, were the mags!
The 10 round rotary mag works perfect in my Nomad, although it takes a bit of fishing to get it out, but the included mag, the aa922, was terrible! I'm talking failures every 3-4 rounds. After I took the cosmetic covering off, that improved to every 5-6 rounds. I bought a second gen, and then a third: they were better, but NOT ONCE was I able to dump a mag without at least one failure/jam. It was so discouraging, I actually started leaving my Nomad at home when I went shooting 22LR at the indoor range. My $179 JW-14 outshot it every time. The girls next to me with their Hello Kitty 715Ts had better luck than I did! Even the SCAR 22, although it still failed, it wasn't quite as bad.
Finally, I got a Butler Creek, and it worked better than the aa922, but it looked like crap. I hate transparent plastic mags...other than maybe a small viewing area to check on your round count. So I paint all mine. Still, that little skinny mag took some of the fun out of the G36 replica Nomad. Some.
I digress...
Then, when I saw the GSG drum for a little over $100 from a sponsoring dealer, I thought "I'll get it, if IT doesn't work, I'll flog the whole package and try to cut my losses, and never buy another Archangel product again.".
Imagine my delight when, on the first try, I dumped 50 straight without a failure. Talk about a sh*t-eatin' grin! I had only PUT 50 in, I lost count and got bored filling it. It IS a bit of a nuisance, at first, but I have gotten pretty good at it - although doing it on camera sure doesn't make it look that way!
Since then, I have dumped 100 at a time, no problem, brass flying everywhere! The few failures I sometimes get, are not jams, they just require a straight pull back on the charging handle, and away I go. Still haven't got that one figured out, but it hardly slows me down. Mind you, that could be the "click" that lets that gopher, go fer! So I am trying to trace it down. I have one theory that I discuss on the vid.
Anyway, enough out of me, lol...here's the vid. I hope it helps someone out there figure out what they might be doing wrong. Remember, it can be stubborn, especially the first 15-20 rounds. So maybe leave 15 in, if you can remember to, and re-load after 90?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiebdOv7t18
Lol...I don't expect I am doing anything TOO out of the ordinary, but it may help one or two guys out there, who knows. A lot of these drums (for the 10/22 and its variants) have been sold recently, and there seems to be a LOT of disappointment out there.
Which is disappointing to ME, because I LOVE the dang thing!
The fact is, before this drum mag came along, I was desperate: I had dropped all this cash on a 10/22 (last year, when they were scarce, so of course I paid too much) and an Archangel Nomad stock, (which I love)...but the weak link, for me, were the mags!
The 10 round rotary mag works perfect in my Nomad, although it takes a bit of fishing to get it out, but the included mag, the aa922, was terrible! I'm talking failures every 3-4 rounds. After I took the cosmetic covering off, that improved to every 5-6 rounds. I bought a second gen, and then a third: they were better, but NOT ONCE was I able to dump a mag without at least one failure/jam. It was so discouraging, I actually started leaving my Nomad at home when I went shooting 22LR at the indoor range. My $179 JW-14 outshot it every time. The girls next to me with their Hello Kitty 715Ts had better luck than I did! Even the SCAR 22, although it still failed, it wasn't quite as bad.
Finally, I got a Butler Creek, and it worked better than the aa922, but it looked like crap. I hate transparent plastic mags...other than maybe a small viewing area to check on your round count. So I paint all mine. Still, that little skinny mag took some of the fun out of the G36 replica Nomad. Some.
I digress...
Then, when I saw the GSG drum for a little over $100 from a sponsoring dealer, I thought "I'll get it, if IT doesn't work, I'll flog the whole package and try to cut my losses, and never buy another Archangel product again.".
Imagine my delight when, on the first try, I dumped 50 straight without a failure. Talk about a sh*t-eatin' grin! I had only PUT 50 in, I lost count and got bored filling it. It IS a bit of a nuisance, at first, but I have gotten pretty good at it - although doing it on camera sure doesn't make it look that way!
Since then, I have dumped 100 at a time, no problem, brass flying everywhere! The few failures I sometimes get, are not jams, they just require a straight pull back on the charging handle, and away I go. Still haven't got that one figured out, but it hardly slows me down. Mind you, that could be the "click" that lets that gopher, go fer! So I am trying to trace it down. I have one theory that I discuss on the vid.
Anyway, enough out of me, lol...here's the vid. I hope it helps someone out there figure out what they might be doing wrong. Remember, it can be stubborn, especially the first 15-20 rounds. So maybe leave 15 in, if you can remember to, and re-load after 90?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiebdOv7t18
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