Thread: Making a magazine, just for the fun of it

Originally Posted by Towely

People and companies have been trying to make a double stack shotshell mag that actualy works reliably for years now. If there was such a thing out there then you would see it being used by the gaming crowd. As has been pointed out already there are some quirks involved when making these things feed from a box. Get your hands on a saiga/vepr 12 mag and take a look at how the guides in the mag help to line up the shells.
Mossberg have come out with a double stack box fed 590 this year so we will have to see how that one progresses.
Good luck in your endevour, you may become a wealthy man if you succeed!
MD Arms Patents Double-Stack Magazines for the Saiga 12 - Guns.com

@Towely

The Saiga mag is to prevent rimlock occurring. The original specification for the .303 cartridge has a 45deg chamfer at the rear edge of the rims to avoid this problem. However, much .303 ammo does not have this rim chamfer, simply because the SMLE magazine is designed to avoid rimlock - by tilting the rear end of cartridges increasingly downwards as they go down in the magazine, almost as if sliding back off the magazine follower -- hence the rear-down shape of the SMLE magazine. Bloke On The Range has an interesting YouTube video on Rim Jam, why it is not a problem. Saying that, I have put a lot of cases through the lathe to do a quick chamfer.