so I picked up a ruger american gen 1 in 7.62x39 a while back , because I wanted to have an option to shoot 7.62 x39 in a bolt gun, just in case the guberment bans all semis etc...
I brought it out to the range several times to my surprise it shoots the mill surplus ammo fairly well, the only issue is the stock is quite bad , so I was looking for an alternate.
I found several options and settled on the MDT oryx , called them up to ask what magazine I should get, they told me they did not advise I use this stock as they couldn't get a magazine to feed reliably.
So several months went by I was unable to find something I wanted instead, so I started looking at what mags they "MDT" offered that would be close to the same case dimensions as the 7.62x39.
Turns out the 6mmARC is fairly close minus the tapered casing, so i hummed had hawed and decided to see if I could make it work. I bought the oryx and 6mm arc 10rd mag, installed the barreled action in the
chassis , loaded the mag and the thing won't feed, ####..... so I make a very exaggerated ramp for the internal base plate out of a piece of rubber, load the mag again I got about 8 rounds in and it feed just fine.
Win for me!
thought I'd share,
Cheers.
I brought it out to the range several times to my surprise it shoots the mill surplus ammo fairly well, the only issue is the stock is quite bad , so I was looking for an alternate.
I found several options and settled on the MDT oryx , called them up to ask what magazine I should get, they told me they did not advise I use this stock as they couldn't get a magazine to feed reliably.
So several months went by I was unable to find something I wanted instead, so I started looking at what mags they "MDT" offered that would be close to the same case dimensions as the 7.62x39.
Turns out the 6mmARC is fairly close minus the tapered casing, so i hummed had hawed and decided to see if I could make it work. I bought the oryx and 6mm arc 10rd mag, installed the barreled action in the
chassis , loaded the mag and the thing won't feed, ####..... so I make a very exaggerated ramp for the internal base plate out of a piece of rubber, load the mag again I got about 8 rounds in and it feed just fine.
Win for me!
thought I'd share,
Cheers.