Buiding my own magazines (Ruger 10/22)

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MrWhite

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Hi,
I have a question concerning magazines, especially for the Ruger 10/22. Due to the fact that these magazines are made of plastic with just having steel feed lips (Butler Creek),
I began thinking of building my own 25rd 10/22 magazines, by adopting the steel feed lips from the Butler Creek magazines at it´s special spring inside. So I would only need to replace these plastic covers by a light steel.
Do you think this would work if I would spent some time in it? I´m thinking of it because I hate these plastic clear plastic magazines coming from Butler Creek :)

Bye,
Whitey

Btw.
Excuse my bad english. I´m from germany.
 
Wilkommen! (spelling?)

Your question isn't clear about what you're trying to do; are you just trying to make a metal 25-round magazine, or are you trying to make a magazine with MORE capacity? The spring in the 25-rounders you've already got won't be long enough to work in a longer magazine, and if what's bothering you is the clear plastic, you can get the "smoked" color or just spray-paint them.
Stacey C.
 
Better check with the ATF first----I think building new hi-capacity mags is illegal. Just a suggestion so you don't get yourself into a load of trouble.
 
Can't see why you couldn't (in Germany). The only hard part I can think of is getting the proper internal configuration of the magazine body that will reliably store and feed the cartridges.

Personally, (having some background in adhesives) I would use an epoxy to mate the feed lips to the body instead of drilling, tapping, and using tiny screws to attach them. Or maybe a high temperature cyanoacrylate like that from Henkel (Loctite) that is capable of handling a tiny bit of flex.
 
@SDC I don´t want to build new high-cap magazines, I just want to replace the plastic covers by steel covers.

Thanks for the infos giving so far. Looking foward to hear from you. :)

Bye,
Whitey

Btw.
I can´t get the smoked magazines here (germany). Clear ones are available everywhere for less money but the color doesn´t bother me, it´s the plastic. Magazines have to be made from steel :)
 
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