Re: Stepping Up To the Plate
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackOps Tech</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Smag</div><div class="ubbcode-body">On the sporter conversion soon to come. Will this have this large aics mag or will it have just the small .22 cal portion that is bolted into the Tac Mag as you have shown here.
Blown away on yer project! i keep going back and seeing more stuff than isaw the viewing before. Nice work my friend. Keep us updated on the sporter conversion as the work comes in for the Tac.
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Thanks Smag. The SPORTER version is completely different and won't share any of the magazine components you see here. More details to come later, as I can't let the cat out of the bag just yet. </div></div>
Hey Mike -
I've been on the Model 605 list since you announced it and was planning on going with the Model 605 Repeater action and building it into a Sporter. Now I've decided to convert a 40XB instead. You may recall that I originally gave you the idea of a "door"-hidden magazine because I wanted to make my full-size .22 LR look just like my .308. However, I'd favor expedient and easy magazine changes over a floorplate-hidden magazine, especially if an exposed magazine and magazine latch would be flush or near-flush with the bottom of the stock.
If you aren't set on a particular bottom metal type for the Sporter version might you consider a one-piece unit incorporating the trigger bow and a magazine slot like on the old Kimber of Oregon Model 82A and 82B Sporters, or maybe a two-piece unit incorporating the trigger bow and a magazine slot like on the old Kimber of America (Oregon) Model 82C Sporters?
Without <span style="font-style: italic">"letting the cat out of the bag"</span>, can you tell me if the Sporter version's bottom metal will be a one-piece unit incorporating the trigger bow and a slot that the magazine is inserted through, a one-piece unit incorporating the trigger bow and a "door" that hides the magazine, or will the trigger bow be separate from the magazine and magazine latch/release.
Below are three photos of the one-piece bottom metal used one the Kimber Model 82A and 82B Sporters, as well as one photo of the two-piece bottom metal used on the Model 82C Sporters. If you are interested I could remove the bottom metals and take some photos of the magazine catch for reference to give you an idea of the geometry of how your Black Ops Magazine would need to interface.
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Kimber of Oregon Model 82 one-piece bottom metal:</span></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Kimber of America (Oregon-based) Model 82C two-piece bottom metal:</span></span>
Whatever floorplate or bottom metal design that you go with, please put me on the "40X Sporter Conversion List". TIA.
Keith
