Update
Well I have some not so good and some really good news
The bad, well I got a prototype mag from a certain company that is going to be tits. It hold 15rds of 223 and if you want can really stretch out the length. I mean 308 full size mag length ?. Long freebore 223 definitely seems appealing. BUT this mag hits the bolt body of the AI. I can mod the catch to make it fit but since it’s not mine, I’m stuck. But with that mag, once it’s released it’s gonna be badass. So for now I’m back to AI polymer, Accurate Mag & MDT mag options. AI is probably the smoothest but many say the plastic doesn’t hold up and splits the mag.
The good, these past few days and tomorrow I’ve been demoing this conversion at a regional SWAT competition. Besides the desire to get a 223 conversion for a few of the departments that are lucky enough to have AI’s, it ran flawless. In the hands of someone other then shooting a rifle has no prior coaching on how to run a bolt, wether fast or slow, the conversion has run flawless. I swapped the conversion over to one of the guys AT with small pin. He shot 5rds of his 308, pulled the barrel & dropped the firing pin assembly, slapped on the 223 barrel, put his firing pin in the 223 bolt body, loaded the mag, 1st round impact, dialed in the correction, ready to rock & roll. The cool part when the lieutenant said, “you can get ALOT more trigger time if you shot 223 instead of 6.5”.
WSM/PRC is spun, working out kinks on extractor.
Prototype is on track to be delivered to a special someone for further testing and hopefully the blessing from a few individuals.
Overall things are moving in the right direction.
