flared out mag wells

[Evil Monkey]

Anybody else think this is a great idea? I'm surprised that there really isn't any rifle that I know of that has a decent flared/beveled out magazine well to greatly aid magazine insertion under stress. It would be a great asset to rifles like the AK or any other 2-point locking system (rock-n-lock).

I know there's ar15 recievers that can change out magazine wells and have different extensions but it's a damn shame we don't see this with all designs as a standard.

It makes complete sense.....yet decades have passed, designs have passed, and engineers still don't get it.

The only rifle that comes close is the FAL with it's indexing plate on the right side. But that still isn't a flared out mag well.

 

[tirod]

Take the other perspective - over 60 years have passed since the introduction of magazine fed weapons - and all that time, not one designer bothered to see any real need to flare the mag well.

Just a few competition gun gurus use it on range guns - combat weapons, not so much.

Hundreds of design engineers, most of the first and second tier militaries, an alphabet soup of gun companies, and not many flared mag wells. Hmmm.

Maybe it's not a major issue.

Trained operators who practice until they can't get it wrong would be the first to complain about it, and would have back when the '60s designs were first drawn up. It's 2011, the AR is into it's third incarnation, the SCAR, ACR, ARX, XCR, etc. don't seem to have a bunch of flare. If anything, they all copy the AR magwell too much. The Euro copies are even dimensionally smaller, for crying out loud, not all accept Pmags.

Not being a lawyer, but sometimes it's interesting to take the other side and mull it over.

 

[kraigwy]

Flared magazine wells is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

I've shot a lot of magazine fed rifles and pistols, I never had, even under stress a problem getting a mag it either.

What I do like, is a magazine that when empty falls under it's own weight when the mag. release is hit.

As much as I love the M14/M1A, having shot it for 45 years, I don't like that you have to pull the magazine from the rifle. Its not that big of a deal though.

I just like the mag to fall as I reach for another one.

 

[smince]

It would be a great asset to rifles like the AK or any other 2-point locking system (rock-n-lock).

Run the AK like it was designed to be ran.

Don't try to make it an AR.

You will only end up frustrated.

 

[Evil Monkey]

Run the AK like it was designed to be ran.

Don't try to make it an AR.

You will only end up frustrated

That's not the topic. The topic is a flared out mag well for all new systems.

Something like this...

krebs custom used to have a similar modification for the AK.

 

[madcratebuilder]

Flared magazine wells is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

+1

I have a lot of magazine fed rifles and the only one that that's any thought is a 50rd drum in my Thompson. I'll add the 5rd mag for the M1A to that list, pita to remove sometimes.

Several high end AR manufacturers like Noveske and AXTS offer extra beveled mag wells if the standard bevel is a problem.