Squires Bingham 20p spare magazine solution. . .

[fat tony]

Having recently acquired a Squires Bingham 20p, I was trying to find a way to obtain inexpensive and satisfactory spare magazines. The Armscor factory 15 round magazines are well made, quality items, however the price is getting up there.

I obtained a spare 7 round magazine for a Marlin 795, and made an adaptor block that takes up the spare space at the rear of the magazine, indexes the magazine at the right height, and interlocks with the lug at the back.

All it is is a strip of .062" plain sheet steel cut, filed and polished to shape.

Took the rifle out to the range last weekend & tried the adapted magazine out - it worked flawlessly.

All I have to do is fasten it to the rear of the magazine - epoxy will probably do the job.

The 15 rounder was a pleasure to use as well.

One modification I did have to do on the Marlin magazine was remove some material on the front of the magazine follower, for which I used my Dremel rotary tool, the plastic is very high quality & did not yield to files very well for some reason.

 

[wgamble89]

That's awesome I have one and more cheap mags would be nice, if you're lucky you may come across an 30rd Armscor mag, you think the 15 rounder is good the 30s are a real blast. Numrich has the stock mags at pretty good prices as well https://www.gunpartscorp.com/Manufa...-38531/SquiresBingham20-40568.htm?results=All (#59 on the list)

 

[fat tony]

The problem is you get nailed with the ugly up fee. I paid $20 bucks for the marlin magazine. I like the 20p better than a Ruger 10/22 though.

^The Armscor 25 rounders are hard to find from US dealers that will ship. The 30 rounders are like rocking horse shat.

 

[camster]

Good job on your conversion!

I have a hi-cap 20P magazine that I would swap for smaller ones in a heartbeat! I'm not too much for spray n' play shooting, and hi-caps just seem to make a .22 feel clunky to me. Will check tonight if it holds 25, or 30. I would go with a pair of 10's over one 25 any day....

I used to really like Squires Binghams! They were affordable, reliable, and accurate. First mass marketed "tactical/black lookin'" rifles. Sad to add, the AK-47 copy is a prohib because it looked soooooooo scary.
...then I had the opportunity to fix a trigger on one. Turns out trigger is the Achilles heel. In a pursuit of one used trigger, I found more than a few parts rifles sans trigger. Turned into a good chase that I'm glad is over. Otherwise fine affordable .22's.


My rem. 597 has 2 10rd and 2 hi-caps. I like how flush the 10 rd fit into the rifle. Honestly, I'm the first one to trash-talk the 10/22, but it's coolest feature was that it held 10 in it's rotary magazine, and was flush on the bottom. That was a pretty big step for box magazine .22s. (Credit/respect where credit/respect is due...)

 

[fat tony]

I am going to make a steel trigger for mine - just have to rig up a stargate so I can have the time to do that.