BSA sportsman 5 magazines?

[rambo46]

Dave,

Good to see you back my friend.

[bigduke6]

My late machinist did a small production run of the .22 magazine inserts for me about twenty years ago, as I had thirty No7 'parts kits' made, including extractors, auxiliary supporting arm, ejector & mag inserts. Terry Abrams supplied me with original bolt heads. I retained about ten finished kits & the other twenty went Stateside to someone well known on this forum! I'm not sure but I may still have the magazine tooling for stamping out the sheet steel into the correct shape for the sides of the .22 mag. I'll have a look in the garage as if I have them they may be of use to someone. The assembled mags functioned flawlessly.

PM sent Rog

[eachief@sbcglobal.ne]

Dr. Payne, I was one of those who received one of your Kits. It is good to see you are still around! I have been away from the Enfield Rifle scene for a while. Deployments, Seabees, jeeps and black powder arms seduced me away. I see I missed the passing of John Sukey. Dang!

[Roger Payne]

Have not yet found the tooling but I think I still have it........somewhere. I'll keep looking.

[Warren]

If no luck let me know.
I had one or two spares ...
cheers,

Roger: we must compare sheds (tm) and garages some time :-)##

[DaveN]

Anyone still here?

[browningautorifle]

Anyone still here?

We're all still here...what's up?

[DaveN]

Wrote a huge comment and some how i had gotten logged out?
So let me just say “Getting old isn’t for Wimps” my dad used to say.

[browningautorifle]

Getting old

Lots of us there, I'm older than you. Anyway, we're still here.

[Gnr527]

Its a time since I last checked in - good to see its still going.

A long time ago I picked up an ersatz Nr 7 Trainer -converted by a naughty boy and his son? in Birmingham (I think they both got 7 years). It is a lovely bit of kit - sleeved Nr 4 - but the magezine didnt have the 5 round conversion mag. I shaped a magezine follower that drops the fired round back into the Mag and also bought a 5 round mazine(similar but not a BSA one) to try a mag conversion.

I've just decided to give it a try but before I do:-

Anyone any idea if there is any chance of picking up a genuine BSA 5 5 round mag?
Any other ideas/suggestions?

I've also paired it up with 4T spare butt/iron and scope sights - in order to shoot almost any combnation. A real pleasure to shoot.

Regards

John