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Topic: Rifle Mags UK heads up

Posted By: Honkytonk
Subject: Rifle Mags UK heads up
Date Posted: November 23 2022 at 10:20am

Hey guys. Just got an email update from Rifle Mags in the UK. No.4&5 5 rounders are now available. If memory serves me right they've been on backorder for almost a year.

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Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: November 23 2022 at 12:51pm

I was gonna buy one or two, but the price is pretty steep. I can get an original No.4 magazine and cut it down and finish it for well under $100 CAD. They are nice though...

Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: November 23 2022 at 1:28pm

Wish they would make a repro of the proper No. 4 7.62 mag, but probably a very small market for that.

Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: November 23 2022 at 1:32pm

Thanks for the tip.

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Posted By: Rossfield
Date Posted: June 16 2024 at 9:34am

Funny looking assembly: sides not brazed or the whole body deep-drawn?

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Treason doth never prosper;
what's the reason?
Why if it prosper,
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Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: June 17 2024 at 5:05am

Pretty pricey, probably over $200 once shipped, then dinged by customs. Glad I still have a bunch of original PH 5 rounders, and one Churchill 5 rounder, stamped England on the bottom.

Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: June 17 2024 at 7:34am

Nice looking products but as you say quite pricey. For some people price matters, for others not so much. Like you Shiloh, I saved a few PH 5-rounders as spares as well. I have 2 PH .303 rifles (5 rounds) and one of my E.A.L. rifles came with a 5-round magazine.

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Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: June 17 2024 at 11:06am

Ya I can`t believe how expensive this stuff has gotten in recent memory. I`m just happy I acquired the stuff when I did, because if was getting into this game now, it wouldn`t happen.

Everything is just so bleedin` expensive anymore, not sure how long the average family will survive this onslaught.

Posted By: 6878mm
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 4:33pm

To Shiloh

Thats the trouble mate, the average bloke is starting to go under

Just look at morgatges

Cheers

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Pete

Posted By: Rossfield
Date Posted: March 30 2025 at 4:25pm

Should have made them a fish-belly IMHO; kill two needs with one stone.

Many of the 5/6 round converted mags done in days gone by used a bottom plate made somewhat wider than the sides of the mag to provide a lip for the fingers to grasp when simply disengaging the catch would not cause the mag to drop out freely.

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Treason doth never prosper;
what's the reason?
Why if it prosper,
none dare call it treason.

Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: March 31 2025 at 2:41am

Is the demand for 5 round magazines predicated by the Canadian government's musings on banning Lee Enfield 10 round magazines? Has that ban been implemented yet?

Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 31 2025 at 6:34am

I don't believe so. As well, I don't THINK the Garand is on the list, either.
Fortunatley, for me - I still have a 5 rnd mag.(I recon if someone needs a 10 rnd mag for a deer or moose - he's probobly not much of a hunter!)
The gov't is still too wary to ban the SKS as well.

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Posted By: Rossfield
Date Posted: March 31 2025 at 8:00am

The peculiar protected status of the SKS is said to due to its popularity with Canadian aboriginals; no one has come up with any other plausible reason. The Lee Enfield has a similar popularity with that constituency. As for the Garand, the relative impossibility of anything less than eight rounds seems to have allowed the exception. Since the agenda is simply civilian disarmament, you'd wonder why they bother to make an exception for the Garand when arms like the VZ52/57 were banned which could be restricted to five round mags.

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Treason doth never prosper;
what's the reason?
Why if it prosper,
none dare call it treason.

Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 31 2025 at 10:54am

I don't know - but I've told (a few times) that the SKS issue IS solely due to it's popularity with the indigeonous folks. If the gov't bans them, they won't comply.If the gov't was to try to enforce it, it wouldn't end well for the gov't side. Wish the rest of us had that kinda clout!

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Loose wimmen tightened here