Mumbles Marble Mouth
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I just got a Valmet M78 .308 and was wondering where I could find another magazine for it. The one it came with is short I want a longer one.
Valmet M78 .308 Magazines
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Mumbles Marble Mouth
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Thank you very much. How do you modify the M14 magazines to get them to work?
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
Haven't done the m14 mags but there is info online. The g3 mags need the sides milled down and locking tabs added front and back.
jeepcjaholic
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That is a very nice rifle! Milled wood stock is true hens teeth. Place a add in the EE but make sure your ready to pay. On the cheap for a mag is $200 and up from there.
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
They didn't come the way it is in tge picture. The stock has been replaced, the wood hand guard typical on the 308 replaced with the 223 polymer type, and the bipod removed. The front sight has been changed as well to the lighter rifle style.
That might be an M78 modified... but seems more like a Valmet Hunter which has gone through a upgrade.
ipscgraz
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Beat me to it.
KotKotofeich
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Wow! Nice rifle!
A valmet hunter has the magazine a lot further forward than an M76/78... this looks like the real deal.
The magazine is in the same location. The hunter has the trigger group further back. Moving it forward is very simple and is one of the usual steps to a hunter conversion - AK trigger group pretty much drops in, just have to fiddle with the trigger guard.
Oh, and that's definitely a hunter that's been modded - you can see the hole for the original trigger pin just above the new pistol grip and the hole for bolting down the receiver cover just at the back edge of the new receiver cover.
Oh, wow, I didnt realize that was that easy and doable, cheers for the info!
I might be hunting for a hunter now as well
edit: that's why real deal m78's are worth so much then! 11.5k$ for one in 5.56... wow!
#ivebeenschooled
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I'd buy a 223 and convert it before dumping 11.5 on a 762x39. People have done that too with Hunters.
Sold several 7.62x39 M78's for close to ten K about 5 years ago. They are very rare in the caliber, even in the USA. Don't pay that much for a .223 as fenceline said you can get them for thousands less in the USA and the .223 ones are not uncommon.
KotKotofeich
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Magwell is the same for .223 or 7.62x39.
New barrel, 7.62x39 bolt (regular AK bolt is not a direct drop in but can be modified easily enough) and that's it for the caliber conversion if you are reusing hardware from the 223 barrel. (I'm one of those people who had a conversion from .223 to 7.62x39 done)
Of course you still end up with a hunter but in 7.62x39 if that's what you were starting with, the main work is in getting the buttstock changed (check JasonGTA's recent Galil conversion - he took a very drastic but effective approach) and getting a handguard fitted.
jeepcjaholic
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Nope they had factory stocks like that.and I understand this is a hunter build. But they did make wood butt stocks in wood for milled stocks.
Hi, can you PM who "they" are? I'm interested in a wood stock for a .308 hunter as well. Cheers!
