Welcome to the Colorado AR-15 Shooters Club Discussion Forums.
Did you get your mags?Originally Posted by FromMyColdDeadHand
Local 40X owner dtros had his 40X converted by Mike a couple years ago. Would very much like to try a new mag in dtros's 40X before I send out my 40X.
UPS system let down.... should have them tomorrow.
Mike said that most of the mags he was sending out were for Colorado! Didn't Dtros order his 'free' (that was the offer wasn't it).
I'll stop buying black rifles when my wife stops buying black shoes.
DTros got his but he has yet to test them out. Hopefully soon.
You know I like my coffee sweet in the morning
and I'm crazy about my tea at night
Got'em. Pretty solid. No flex, but considering that they are the size of 308 mags, it would almost be hard not to be . Everything seems to move and glide easily. Fit in my AICS and locks up tight, but I can't judge feeding or anything else yet.
I'll stop buying black rifles when my wife stops buying black shoes.
Talked to dtros yesterday, he got 3 mags for his already Mike Bush converted 40X. Says they look great, better then the one original mag he has, he'll test them soon. I'll post his results.
Also talked to my gunsmith yesterday, Jonathon Elrod about doing my conversion. He contacted Mike Bush, got all the CAD drawings, programming, models.... for the conversion. Jonathon just gave them a quick peak, so far says it looks easy. He's going to study the info this weekend and let me know. Jonathon has been a machinist for years, owner of a high end CNC machine shop, he's chambered my last 4 barrels, all shoot lights out. Most importantly I trust him with my 40X.
Is he local to Colorado?
I think I'll fire up the dremel and take whack at it. How hard can it be?
To me, this is all about degrees of freedom. That was my point with Mike on THe Hide. It sounds like he has taken out a lot of variability on the mag side. To me the question is how much jiggle the conversions will have. I don't have any actual knowledge of what the cuts are. Throw in Chassis variation and I get nervous- mainly because it can become a three way firing circle of Mike (design), Mike (mags), the smith and the chassis. If you have issues..... I assume Mike will help out, but we all know what assuming does.
That is my low information, high interest view point.
I'll stop buying black rifles when my wife stops buying black shoes.
I ran the new mags in dtros's converted 40X, feeds perfect! Also took his barreled action out his McMillan stock/Badger BM and put it in my AICS, feeds perfect! Mags look great. Hoser, the glass is getting half full, dtros's rifle rocks!
There's two ways to do this conversion. Buy a "kit" from Mike, includes bolt nose, extractor, firing pin.....Advantage it's easier. Disadvantage maybe the head space is off, would need to push a reamer into the chamber? The other option is to have our existing parts machined (dtros's conversion was done that way) no change in head space. Supposedly the kits will be available soon, who knows what that means?
Sending Jonathon (jelrod1 on the hide) my 40X and dtros's converted barreled action soon. I'll post updates about what he's going to charge and other details.....
What is he going to do to Dtros' action?
I'll stop buying black rifles when my wife stops buying black shoes.
Not doing anything to dtros's action. Jonathon would very much like to see a conversion, see if drawings/models matched what was done....dtros generously loaned his out.
forgive my ignorance what is a 40x repeater? i got its some type of .22lr conversion. but i cant find any info explaining what exactly is a 40x repeater.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote