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Little more updates. I abandoned the steel magazine project and figured I would try an aluminum.
Machined a small mag well cover that I tapped and bolted a magwell to. I made the well out of the same little chunk of aluminum. I guessed and made the shape of a follower that I thought will work. Finally made a few springs out of banding and tempered them in the lead pot. They worked out okay I suppose. So here's the next pieces of the puzzle...still waiting on a die from Whitten. The mag well cover is held in by the action of bolting it to the mag well and a small 4x48 grub screw for rear tension. Last edited by joejo; 09-15-2021 at 11:10 PM. |
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The spring sits in a milled slot in the follower that I just epoxied and the lip of the spring feeds thru the mag well retaining it there.
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The gun is dirty so don't mind that....aluminum dust everywhere!
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Gotta wonder if a .17 Mach II would be a worthwhile rebarrel for a 591. I'd think they'd work either with the factory 5mm mags, or with a factory 541/581 .22 LR mag.
Also, wouldn't it be easy to start with, say, a CZ 527 mag, and then make it work with the rifle? Or, you could use the .22 CCM case and create a CF variant of the .17 HMR... then you could use a factory mag. ADDED: I still am impressed by the work that has gone into this. Last edited by obijohn; 11-01-2021 at 11:47 PM. |
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Well whidden sent the final size die and I went thru a little forming process. It's a neat little cartridge. I think now I can call this a finished product. For now anyway.
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I have a couple 5mms with Schroeder and Craig's conversions but have them both shooting rimfire right now because even the cf variant case doesn't work in the factory 5mm magazine. |
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On the 5mm CF conversion, sorry to hear of the feeding issues. I have the Schroeder and it feeds perfect from the factory 591 magazines (I only have three of them but they all feed fine). I cast 30 gr bullets for it (and mostly shoot those). Keep up the great work!
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Yes back before I started casting bullets, the vmax bullets was too long. I even pulled the red tips. The cast bullets was within a minute of a headshot so I was happy enough with that. My contender normally gets the longer vmax bullets but there are times I will run the lead through it.
I have several cases of the centurion ammo (for my second 591 still RF) and really need to start using it up. Just enjoy the CF version a lot more.
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