So I'm a  bit slow and bored today (take the easy shot), so I figured I would update my collection pics. That ,and I'm trying to document some stuff for insurance purposes.

Old mags use a wierd detent system. Basically, a channel is cut into tthe barrel and a wire "nubbin" sticks through and holds the balls back. They work great for gravity feed or even just agitated hoppers, but for forcefed hoppers, they just aren't strong enough sometimes.  On a stock mag body, the feedneck comes out of the body as a straight tube at 45 degrees, and an elbow is used. The mod I had done cuts that tube down close to the body and has another short peice of tubing welded to the it to make a bend in the feedtube so that the end result is a vert feedneck. You then use a spyder 1" or 7/8" clamping feedneck. With the stock feedneck, you can tilt the hopper forward or backwards utilizing the 45" elbow. With the vert feed mod, you don't have this option. The hopper is fixed and alway totally vertical. So if you are arcing the marker back a bit to "longball', on a revvy or gravity feed, the balls pool in the back of the hopper and you misfire.

Yeah, not really sure on the Ricochet or not. Problem is, I need a force fed hopper without the force. The detent just isnt strong enough to fight it. Not really sure what you mean by power feed mod. They make powerfeed bodies, in fact, I have one that I was planning on getting rid of.

• When a shot was fired, blowback air was supposed to exit the elbow at this point so it did not interfere with the rest of the balls in the stack waiting to feed.
• When the ball nearest the opening was blown back it was supposed to intersect the edge of the hole which supposedly bounced it back (forcefully) toward the breech as opposed to letting it move farther back toward the hopper.  (Hence the term "power" feed.)

Ah, ok. Stock stainless steel mag bodies have the hole you're talking about and there is also a "powerfeed" body that allows for longer stacks of balls. I might try doubling up somehow on the wire nubbins to see if that helps with resistance. Honestly, I haven't had much of a chance to play around with it. My brother and I have only gotten to go play rec ball once this year, and I hate to spend time at a scenario event troubleshooting. I need to take a couple of weekends, go to the local field, by myself if I have to, and do some teching.

The nubbin flexes. I think if I had some of the wire ones, I might be able to put the side by side that way I would have two triangles pushing into the barrel instead of one, and it might cause enough resitance to keep from double feeding. Problem is, they don't make the wire ones anymore, so I may have to fashion my own.

Thanks Stormy. Irony is, you are the one that got me interested in Mags in the first place..

I don't get the feeling he would have manned up and replaced the lowers if they were unusable, so I am glad they could at least be used. I have a suspicion of what may have happened, but it is only speculation. There simply was too much material taken off for one stripping job. I suspect that possibly a mistake was made ot the color or something else and they were restripped and reanodized again. One reason I say this is another guy that was having his done at the same time had some simliar issues. I almost wonder if they weren't mixed up. The lowers that I sent had the origina ano on them when I sent them to Lukes to be bead blasted. I must not understand the process, because I don't even know why they would have had to be stripped again considering they were bead blasted when I sent them to the anodizer.