Fin-Stabilization and Hopper Loading

Any marker that has a removable feed will be the easiest to continue the modification. I have not looked at any non-detachable feed markers as of yet.

With what I am working with, parts wise, on hand, the feed elbow is needed. My location and availibility of tools parts and, materials is leading directly to the "fuzziness" in a lot of what I am doing right now. Once I get back to the States, things will be a lot easier to figure out. Unless y'all feel nice enough to send me some tools in a care package...

For it to go directly into the marker would either plant the mag directly on top of the barrel, or turn the marker into a bastardized version of the FN303.

The mag sticks out with the same approximate surface area as a standard hopper. Our ammunition has to have a place to go, hopper, magazine or tube. This is the simplest proof of concept that I think has the best chance of an actual production run. Of course there is always more than one way to skin a cat. This is the method I have chosen to follow, and, until disproven by failure, I will follow it until the idea comes to fruition. If nobody uses it after that, it's all good, but I will have satisfied myself in having accomplished it.

"That big target" is goign to be a relative term. If I mount it the way shown, there is a target fairly similar in size to a normal hopper sitting there.

I mount it in line with the barrel, and the mag is a large target from another angle. I can do it, and I think it would be amusing to do so. I would have to mill out the spokes so that the rounds sit in line with how they will be chambered. Not hard, basically just an exercise in spatial relationships.

One step closer.

I have tooled away most of the upper hopper feed to allow for the attachement of the slide clip. I thought it would be better to keep the clip in one piece vice cutting it in half and attaching the halves separately. There would have been too much room for error. This way the slide stops will be aligned, regardless of final position, and will provide more support and a better set of refernce points for anything that I do from this point.

Rough fit:

Tooled hopper feed elbow. Yes, I know it looks like crap:

Mostly final rough fit:

I still have to smooth some rough spots out. Time to break out the trusty Gerber and while away some of those hours on watch... A couple more weeks, and this part should be done.

Now, if i could just find a marker...

Thank you.

That's what I plan. It shouldn't take me more than an hour, tops, to do that.

Getting the 98C HERE is going to be the hard part...

Yes, the LTL rounds have the front half loaded with granular bismuth. The back half is loaded with paint or OC. Yummy.

All I am going to say on spin is: Flatline. ;)

Rifle tech has proven that the cylindrical stabilisation that the rifling, or in this case the fins, puts on the round will make the spun round outperform the comparible caliber spherical round.

The difficulties in making finned rounds was pointed out to me in another forum, and I had come up with the same example, medicinal capsules, for cylindrical rounds. The only issue would then be to add the fins in. I must research that more.