New style Remington 7400 mag disassembly?

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I have one of the newer 7400 style mags, a 5 shot with the plastic bottom. There is not enough room to manipulate the follower out of place, leaving me to conclude that somehow you can free the bottom plastic, while I can see how you free the rear area of this 308 size mag, I cannot see how to free the front. Before I take a hammer to it, can anyone tell me how to free the plastic so it slides off (that plastic looks brittle enough I don't want to beat it to death quite yet)
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a 5 shot with the plastic bottom
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I was under the assumption that they are still a 4 shot magazine, not 5. Anyone care to enlighten ?
All of the Remington Semi mags that I have had, the follower would come out the top with a little side to side manipulation. With the plastic bottom, are you certain it will come out or is it "factory sealed for your protection"?
 
It should be noted that after grinding, filing and attacking the mag with my dremel and still not being successful in getting it apart..that I figured out how to disassemble it for him..

Then stood around watching him fix the boo boo he made trying to get it apart..you can't buy entertainment like this on the street..:D

Of course..now I have to refinish it for him to hide his indiscretions :runaway:
 
Striker didn't figure it out, he ham-handedly (with my help admittedly) tore it open. On the new mags they seem to be made to go together, and NOT come apart. The follower is not able to be twisted out etc, they have modified the follower to keep it centered in the mag, with no real play. The only way we could find to get the 308 size apart was to force the front and rear spacers up and partially out of the mag. The spacers act as a C clip that hold the bottom in place, even without them the mag spring acts as a catch to hold the plastic base in place.
Ultimately the only way we could find to make stripping these mags a reapeatable task, was to drill two holes in the plastic base, which would allow you to use punchs to push the mag spring/spacers free of the plastic bottom, where upon the mag strips far more easily than the old ones.
They are clearly designed for ease of manufacture, NOT user friendliness.
 
considering all the "fun" you've had, could one slip a 742 or something similar in its place and avoid all this
 
gunrunner100 said:
Do tell...!
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What Dosing forgot to mention is..at the front of the mag there are two tabs on the "spacer" that run up either side of the follower and touch the lips of the mag.
You need to gently bend those tabs in so they clear the lips of the mag.
This allows the spacer to be pulled up out of the floor plate.
It isn't a one person job unless you clamp the mag body in a vise..
 
John Y Cannuck said:
So, it's not the best mag for sandy locations. :D
Or, DIY guys. :D
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I don't understand why they feel a need to make them impossible to get apart, everyone knows these mags will eventually choke on dirt, just another craptacular design, when simplicity would have been better.
 
Dosing said:
I don't understand why they feel a need to make them impossible to get apart, everyone knows these mags will eventually choke on dirt, just another craptacular design, when simplicity would have been better.
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what i don't understand is the need to put the hold open in the mag instead of in the rifle- if they were to do that, then you could buid a mag with a floorplate, and make it easy to clean
 
I don't understand why they feel a need to make them impossible to get apart, everyone knows these mags will eventually choke on dirt, just another craptacular design, when simplicity would have been better.
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You sell more mags this way...
 
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