Making the T97 more Reliable (Update #118)

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I decided to take the risk for all of you and went ahead with my file and sand paper.

1st mod is for making feeding more reliable. Especially for when the magazine is tilted down in the magwell, which would cause the round to ram into the flat part under the feed ramp and cause a jam.

How: Simply take a small round file and make your feed ram just like the M4 extension.

Try tilting front downwards your magazine with dummy rounds to see how far you need to go. I only needed to go about 1/16 to make it work, but I went 1/8 anyways to ensure there's room for error.
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2nd mod is to make magazine fit or even drop free, especially Pmags.

How: Take a flat file or sand paper glued on a flat wood stick, start filing away metal at the part that is shiny shown in the picture.

This ridge is usually too tight and seems to be catching onto the rear ridge of Pmags. File it away slightly and Pmags will begin to fit perfectly. Go further and it'll start dropping free. Always visually check your fitments of pmags after every slight "go", we don't want an expensive paper weight. Also be careful of the file hitting the bolt catch, I used a file that fits between the bolt catch and the ridge wall.
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Did you try other mags first?

I've had no issues with feeds or magazine drops with 200 rounds so far.

The original mag was snug: that was fixed by polishing the upper part of the mag with the bag in which it was supplied.
My other two are generic cheapo STANAGS: also no issues.

I did grease the crap out of all the moving parts first... perhaps that's all it takes?
 
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I leaned more towards modifying the gun very slightly to fit all the mags out there, as supposed to modding every mag that the gun would use.

Afterall, if mags need to be modified, then the gun isn't really "100% compatible with stanag magazines".

Pmags being one of the major portion of my magazine stash, I find the modification worth the modification.
 
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I leaned more towards modifying the gun very slightly to fit all the mags out there, as supposed to modding every mag that the gun would use.

Afterall, if mags need to be modified, then the gun isn't really "100% compatible with stanag magazines".

Pmags being one of the major portion of my magazine stash, I find the modification worth the modification.

I'm not disputing your decision for the mod: it makes perfect sense (my other .223s are Mini14s).
I'm just a little (pardon the pun) gun shy when it comes to modding a brand new piece of kit.

This is definitely sticky worthy.
 
I'm not disputing your decision for the mod: it makes perfect sense (my other .223s are Mini14s).
I'm just a little (pardon the pun) gun shy when it comes to modding a brand new piece of kit.

This is definitely sticky worthy.

No doubt I gave it long thoughts before actually doing the mod.

I would definitely hesitate much longer on a $3000 Tavor. But then for a Tavor, you don't need to mod it because you do get what you pay for ;)
 
Guys. . .how many of you wouldn't think twice about modding or replacing the #### trigger that comes from factory in the Savage Axis? How many of you have bedded a bolt action rifle? No rifle comes perfect, and if all it takes to make the rifle compatible with more mags is a little file time, who cares? More well heeled buyers will pay twice as much for the Tavor so they don't have to deal with these kinds of things, while the rest of us will make do with a few mods.
 
Nice mods, but why not just adjust the magazine so that the bullets feed well. A little filing a little bending of the mag feedfolds...would that be the route to go?
 
Nice mods, but why not just adjust the magazine so that the bullets feed well. A little filing a little bending of the mag feedfolds...would that be the route to go?

Definitely one way to go.

I lean towards wanting a rifle that would accept any friends and stranger's stanag magazine and still have it work flawlessly.
 
Nicely done, I've done the same type of things, maybe not quite to this extent, to a lot of rifles...I don't think anything of it. good job! I've had very expensive guns that I polished and did some internal work to make them perform much better.
 
Guys. . .how many of you wouldn't think twice about modding or replacing the #### trigger that comes from factory in the Savage Axis? How many of you have bedded a bolt action rifle? No rifle comes perfect, and if all it takes to make the rifle compatible with more mags is a little file time, who cares? More well heeled buyers will pay twice as much for the Tavor so they don't have to deal with these kinds of things, while the rest of us will make do with a few mods.

What ^^^ he said!
 
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