Manual action firearms have no magazine limit in Canada. Both Spectre Ballistics and Maple Ridge Armoury are producing receivers for modular manual action firearms. They were built to allow the use of parts from now prohibited semi-automatic rifles. They currently have .223 receivers in production, with .308 to come later. To maintain maximum compatibility, they have used STANAG compatible magazine wells in the design, but this limits the magazine to five rounds for rifle magazines, or 10 rounds if pistol magazines are used.
Both manufactures have stated they would be interested in producing lowers that would use a proprietary magazine, so the magazine size would no longer be limited.
There exists manual action firearms that use the STANAG incompatible magwell of Type A, including the Remington 700 and Howa 1500. Are there any semi-automatic rifles out there that use this type of magazine and magwell? If not, would it be a suitable standard for either or both of the Canadian modular manual-action manufacturers to standardize to? Promag has 30 round .223 and 20 round 308 magazines available. If both groups agreed to standardize to the same alternate type of lower, they could partner with a Canadian manufacturer like Cross Industries to make a higher quality copies of these magazines.
Would the Type A magazine make a good manual action Canadian standard, or am I out to lunch? Thanks!
Both manufactures have stated they would be interested in producing lowers that would use a proprietary magazine, so the magazine size would no longer be limited.
There exists manual action firearms that use the STANAG incompatible magwell of Type A, including the Remington 700 and Howa 1500. Are there any semi-automatic rifles out there that use this type of magazine and magwell? If not, would it be a suitable standard for either or both of the Canadian modular manual-action manufacturers to standardize to? Promag has 30 round .223 and 20 round 308 magazines available. If both groups agreed to standardize to the same alternate type of lower, they could partner with a Canadian manufacturer like Cross Industries to make a higher quality copies of these magazines.
Would the Type A magazine make a good manual action Canadian standard, or am I out to lunch? Thanks!
