Garrett

Followup: I looked again and the 12 and 20 round mags have the rub marks as well. I shot a few hundred rounds through the new mags yesterday. I had tweaked a couple of the mags before shooting. Most of them ran pretty well. But it was often necessary to manually push the action bar all the way forward when initially chambering a round. After that, the gun would usually cycle fine. One mag was obviously dragging quite a bit. While the gun would still cycle, the rate of fire was slower and erratic. I had done some ROF measurements. With a 12 round mag, I was getting 1149 RPM with one particular load. With the same ammo, I was only getting 947 RPM from one of the new mags. I think this is going to take some more tweaking. A couple of the mags wouldn't feed reliably when fully loaded. However, this was after shooting several hundred rounds. The bolt was starting to hang up even when no mag was inserted. I'm thinking a clean gun would function fine with these mags. (maybe I've been spoiled by my MACs. They rarely get cleaned, but go bang every time) Since I do have evidence of rubbing on my old mags as well, is it possible that my action bar is out of spec? Would it be easier to just relieve the action bar where it is rubbing? I hate the idea of altering an original part to fit an aftermarket mag, though.

I recently received some of Ken's new production Reising mags. Overall, they look great. But when I installed onein the gun, the bolt would drag and hang up. I had to push the action bar forward to get the bolt to close. If I removed the mag (without touching the bolt or action bar) the bolt would slam closed. I figured the mag catch hole on the back of the mag had been cut a little too low, and that the bolt was dragging on the top of the mag. No big deal, I could just move the hole up a little with a file. But before I started doing that, I measured from the feedlips to the top of the hole on the new mags, and compared that to my older mags. The hole was in the same place. Upon closer examination, I found that the action bar is dragging on the sides of the mag. You can see from the picture below where it has worn the finish off just in front of the feed lips. The mags on the left and middle are new - never been fired. They have only been hand-cycled. The mag on the right is a pre-'94 Christie mag. It shows evidence of wear here too, but it does not seem to drag. I have never had a problem while shooting with this mag. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/GarrettJ/DSC02850a.jpg Here's a pic of the bolt being held open with the mag inserted. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/GarrettJ/DSC02852.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/GarrettJ/DSC02853.jpg I have two original factory mags. Neither appear to have the rub marks that I get on the Christie mags. Since my one old 30 round mag runs fine, I think it's just a matter of breaking in the mags. I could try tweaking the mags, but I don't really care to do something that may mess with the feedlips. As I said, I think it will be fine. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this?

I'm not sure what you're after. Do you want to make a reproduction comp? It looks like Gun Parts Corp is sold out of them, so maybe that's what you're after. Or did you want to build a newer, more effective comp? The problem here is that the .45 isn't a really good candidate for a muzzle brake. Any comp design is only going to be marginally effective with such a low pressure round. This would be especially true with a longer barrel, as there is even less pressure for the comp to work with by the time the bullet gets out to the end of the barrel. I think it was Frank I.'s book that said the Thompson comp was more effective than the Reising comp, primairly because the Thompson's comp was heavier.

About 500 rounds - 2 months. However, I've been working in a non-NFA state for the past 6 weeks, so I haven't had much chance to play with it yet.

Cool. I just talked to Ken the other day (finally getting around to ordering mags). He said he was on the way to pick up mag bodies. I imagine there will be a bunch of happy people here shortly. Have you had a chance to try them out yet?

I'm not aware of any, but it shouldn't be too difficult for someone to fabricate one. However, I don't know that it's all that necessary. I find that Reising mags are easy to load by hand. Much, much easier than a greasgun or sten mag, for example.

QUOTE (Asmodeus @ Feb 26 2005, 09:43 AM)Already got the springs from Wolff. KNow of anyone that makes magazine springs for the 20-rounders? You could likely use a grease gun mag spring.

Yeah, I just got one from him too. The $75 was a pre-order price. He said the final price will now be $85 + shipping.

Wow. Looks like the Model 60 ended up going for just over $2000.

There's one for auction at http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayi...itemnum=6439490 It's around $1200 at the moment. I saw one a few months ago with a starting bid around $2000. That one didn't seem to have any takers, though.

QUOTE (Lafayette Gregory @ Jan 26 2005, 05:06 PM) Know try to find a drum???? You might try stonycreekarmory.com. They have a .45 cal MAC drum, and supposedly have more (reising) in the works.http://www.stonycreekarmory.com/StonyM10-45-OPENDRUM250.jpg

Ken Christy was reportedly seen at the Creek this past weekend, and is reportedly going to start making mags. I got this from Subguns.com. I'll post the text below for when the message drops off the bottom of the board: ----------------------------- "Ken Christy was walking around at the creek with a sign "ask me about reising mags". He said he will be have them available around the first of the year. Price up front is $75 ea. with 2 mininum. Option 2 is to put your name on the list and wait for them to become available and pay the TBD price at that time. He also said he is addressing the tightness issue in some magwells. Look for reising prices to start climbing. " ----------------------------- I'm just glad I bought my Reising a couple of months ago. Now if the paperwork would just move faster...

I just started the long wait on a transfer, so I won't have the gun in hand to examine for a few months. But from the pictures I've seen, I don't know why a machinest couldn't mill a GG magwell out of a steel billet. If you were to only make one or two it would be more cost effective that way anyway. Stamping dies and related tooling are somewhat expensive if you're only going to make a few of something. I've been reading back issues of SAR lately. There was a mention of the earlier guns haveing a "push" type mag release instead of the flat spring "pull" type release. Any idea of how these worked, or if they latched onto the mag in the same location?

Has anyone heard if anyone (Christy) will be making new Reising mags after the ban goes away on Monday?