Wondering about experience with Mauser magazine mods to reliably feed rimmed cartridges.
I live in Michigan which, in its infinite wisdom, only lets us use rifles "up north", but will let us use anything at all with a pistol case elsewhere.
I have built a preliminary "test" rifle (for my personal use, I build a lot of rifles for other people) on a 1912 Steyr action with a repurposed .458 barrel and a blank extractor cut to fit.
I'm pretty happy with the ballistics of the .458 with Hornady ballistic tip .45 260 gr, and the sole fly in my ointment it the rimmed case.
It works great with one in the pipe, and one in the mag, but about every third time, if I try to put more than one in the mag, the rims skip with recoil and the second case jams.
Obviously, I staggered the cases appropriately when loading, but it clearly doesn't always work and I wonder if someone much smarter than me has figured out a definitive solution to this problem.
thanks in advance,
jim
I live in Michigan which, in its infinite wisdom, only lets us use rifles "up north", but will let us use anything at all with a pistol case elsewhere.
I have built a preliminary "test" rifle (for my personal use, I build a lot of rifles for other people) on a 1912 Steyr action with a repurposed .458 barrel and a blank extractor cut to fit.
I'm pretty happy with the ballistics of the .458 with Hornady ballistic tip .45 260 gr, and the sole fly in my ointment it the rimmed case.
It works great with one in the pipe, and one in the mag, but about every third time, if I try to put more than one in the mag, the rims skip with recoil and the second case jams.
Obviously, I staggered the cases appropriately when loading, but it clearly doesn't always work and I wonder if someone much smarter than me has figured out a definitive solution to this problem.
thanks in advance,
jim