Gevarms went out of production long ago. I think the factory burned down or something like that.
The whole world has been scavenging for magazines ever since.
From time to time they come up at high prices.
My past experience is that they often don't work, in particular 2 different series of aftermarket magazines I've encountered to my sorrow.
It is a very unrewarding endeavour. Basically, even when you find a mag, they often don't work very well or at all.
There is a parts supply place in Western Canada that is selling reproduction 8 and 15 round magazines.
The magazines do fit and lock in but in my experience they do not work.
The problem is, the lips...it's always the lips.
Gevarm mag lips do 2 functions...feed and ejection. The simplicity of the action is wonderful but it puts some complex functions in the hands of the magazine for the gun to work.
The left lip is also the ejector.
The mags are a very complex design...and only Gevarm really had it.
I'm thinking, if people were to post close up pictures of the feed lips on their good, fully functional factory magazines, it will give those who decide to try the repro magazines a guide to use when trying to alter the lips to work.
Fully functional means, it works perfectly. No fail to feed, no fail to eject.
Close up, Macro setting, in focus pics from various angles, possibly including measurements of width of the left side and the right side. The relative difference between the 2 sides. (for example, the left feed lip projects 20 thousandths further forward than the right feed lip)
The angle at which the lips are formed, the width of the opening in the middle, etc.
Nobody has ever done this before. Let's put the power of the internet to work.
How long does it take to snap a few digital photos of your mag lips and put them up on this thread? Or email them to me and I'll put them up if that works.
By far the best mags are the factory 8 rounders, they are the only ones I've ever had any luck with.
If we could find a way to alter the new mags that are available to actually work...it would go a long way towards debugging these awesome little rifles.
And we have what we need...there are plenty of mags out there that work just fine. Let's copy them.
The whole world has been scavenging for magazines ever since.
From time to time they come up at high prices.
My past experience is that they often don't work, in particular 2 different series of aftermarket magazines I've encountered to my sorrow.
It is a very unrewarding endeavour. Basically, even when you find a mag, they often don't work very well or at all.
There is a parts supply place in Western Canada that is selling reproduction 8 and 15 round magazines.
The magazines do fit and lock in but in my experience they do not work.
The problem is, the lips...it's always the lips.
Gevarm mag lips do 2 functions...feed and ejection. The simplicity of the action is wonderful but it puts some complex functions in the hands of the magazine for the gun to work.
The left lip is also the ejector.
The mags are a very complex design...and only Gevarm really had it.
I'm thinking, if people were to post close up pictures of the feed lips on their good, fully functional factory magazines, it will give those who decide to try the repro magazines a guide to use when trying to alter the lips to work.
Fully functional means, it works perfectly. No fail to feed, no fail to eject.
Close up, Macro setting, in focus pics from various angles, possibly including measurements of width of the left side and the right side. The relative difference between the 2 sides. (for example, the left feed lip projects 20 thousandths further forward than the right feed lip)
The angle at which the lips are formed, the width of the opening in the middle, etc.
Nobody has ever done this before. Let's put the power of the internet to work.
How long does it take to snap a few digital photos of your mag lips and put them up on this thread? Or email them to me and I'll put them up if that works.
By far the best mags are the factory 8 rounders, they are the only ones I've ever had any luck with.
If we could find a way to alter the new mags that are available to actually work...it would go a long way towards debugging these awesome little rifles.
And we have what we need...there are plenty of mags out there that work just fine. Let's copy them.
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