BSA sportsman 5 magazines?

[DaveN]

Still searching for those .22LR mags for a Lee Enfield No 7 MKI training rifle. I think I have the name of the mag right. Any leads?

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[Peter Laidler]

Dave, what about making the kits with a bog standard, cheap, readily available, off the shelf 5 or 10 round magazine fitted into a standard magazine case. This would be simplicity itself to make a small jig to accurately align the internal .22" magazine and retain it with an epoxy material. At least the buyers will have a magazine to get them started PLUS you'll be able to sell extra magazines to existing owners of No7 rifles - even if they've got an original, an extra useable magazine will be useful.

I think that this is the route being taken by the maker of the L1A1 rifle sub calibre kits who is in a similar boat. The big outer and smaller inner magazines are available but not the onterface adaptor. So just resin the inner into the outer. Similarly with your No7 project. The outer magazines are ten a penny, so are suitable inner magazines - so bond them together! That's just my idea

It's a bit like having a basic L42. Some of the fun is collecting the CES afterwards If the buyer has the shell and guts of the correct magazine, then the fun will be looking for the inner mag..........no?

[Brit plumber]

I sold a BSA sportsmans mag on ebay recently, I thought someone would want to convert it to No.7 spec but the winner just wanted it for his BSA

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[DaveN]

Peter that is probably what we will do as I soon hope to have a complete rifle minus the mag of course. we have a outer shell on our loaner rifle(the one that started the quest to make a bolt head) and thank you BDL that we didn't have to do that.
The proto type has been tweaked a little mostly a higher quality material though the original material would have been adequate I'm told. Initially 10 parts kits will be made, 8 for bolts and 2 for parts only and all spoken for at this time. The nice part is they are all going to members on this site. (-

Just to mention I was offered trade for one of the bolts so when we organize a 2nd and most likely final run it isn't out of the question. I'm really in it for the fun of the hobby and as I've said before this endeavor has been fun.

[DaveN]

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[Brian B]

DaveN,

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[Roger Payne]

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.

[Alan de Enfield]

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.

There is a 'Midlands' Gun auction house that has a number of BSA Sportsman rifles at every auction.
In the past I have purchased the complete rifle removed the magazine and asked the auctioneer (RFD) to destroy the rifle.

Its crazy - magazines on their own make ~£100 the complete rifles makes £15-£25.

Modifying the magazine for 'upside down use' is not difficult.
A bit of cutting the tin-work and rotating the catch and job done.

A BSA Sportsman No7 Magazine, Vs a standard BSA Sportsman magazine.

[Gloworm]

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