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Flush Bottom Metal - 1075 tech - 02-21-2020
HokeyPokeyKid Wrote:you can sign up for email notification once they're in stock @ link to my webstore
Done. Will be waiting.
Waiting for the barreled actions to go on sale on brownell's again
Flush Bottom Metal - curt514 - 02-25-2020
HokeyPokeyKid Wrote:you can sign up for email notification once they're in stock @ link to my webstore
Thanks for the info. I have subscribed and just waiting now.
Flush Bottom Metal - The Guide - 02-25-2020
This will include the bottom metal with hinged floor plate, an internal box, spring, and follower plate?
Jay
Flush Bottom Metal - HokeyPokeyKid - 02-25-2020
The Guide Wrote:This will include the bottom metal with hinged floor plate, an internal box, spring, and follower plate?
Jay
Yes, this will be a complete bolt on kit.
Flush Bottom Metal - keystone183 - 02-25-2020
Just read your description on the website. Regarding "requires 2pc scope mount"....... can you elaborate on that any? So a pic rail over the top is a definite no go?
Flush Bottom Metal - HokeyPokeyKid - 02-25-2020
keystone183 Wrote:Just read your description on the website. Regarding "requires 2pc scope mount"....... can you elaborate on that any? So a pic rail over the top is a definite no go?
If you have pencil thin fingers than you would be good to go, or if you have a picatinny rail that sits higher than normal.
The opening between a full length rail and the receiver is very small and there isn't much room for loading if you use a 2 piece mounting system you gain at least another 1/4 inch if not more depending on your ring height.
Flush Bottom Metal - keystone183 - 02-26-2020
Thanks! Appreciate the response!
Flush Bottom Metal - HokeyPokeyKid - 02-26-2020
Here's a status update for those who are curious, all the follower springs, hinge pins, and such for the first batch have arrived.
My main order of material has finally shipped and is somewhere on a truck making its way towards my shop from somewhere in the midwest.
I have most fixtures made for production and now it's just a waiting game for some miscellaneous cutting tools I need to begin actual production. Hopefully things will start moving quickly as soon as the last bits come together.
Flush Bottom Metal - tdbru - 02-26-2020
looking forward to this!! thanks HPK!!
Flush Bottom Metal - Vilkus - 02-27-2020
Would you have a follower plate that would work with .223 Rem.?
Flush Bottom Metal - HokeyPokeyKid - 02-27-2020
Vilkus Wrote:Would you have a follower plate that would work with .223 Rem.?
I plan on supporting all calibers in the howa mini eventually, right now I'm focused on 6.5 Grendel and by extension 7.62x39.
Flush Bottom Metal - tdbru - 02-27-2020
HPK,
will the shape of the follower and box magazine be the same for both 7.62x39 and the 6.5 Grendel? i would think if so, one of them is going to have feeding issues. the 30 russian short is so tapered, whereas the 6.5G is not...
curious.
-tdbru
Flush Bottom Metal - hill37 - 02-27-2020
The factory mag is marked for both cartages, isn't it?
Flush Bottom Metal - HokeyPokeyKid - 02-27-2020
hill37 Wrote:The factory mag is marked for both cartages, isn't it?
yes it is, in my testing both fed with the same follower. The follower spring tips up to push the rounds evenly.
Flush Bottom Metal - tdbru - 02-28-2020
cool. thanks.
-tdbru
Flush Bottom Metal - HokeyPokeyKid - 03-04-2020
Here's an update for anyone who still cares, all my material has arrived and I am in production now.
My original design was a staggered feed traditional box but I didn't like the way it scratched up the brass as it slid along the unfinished receiver rails. I switched to a top loading, centerfeed internal magazine that doesn't scratch the brass anymore.
This current design is going to evolve into a truly flush detachable magazine in the future.
You load the magazine by pushing the round straight down into the top of the feed lips.
Original design, you can see the scratches from feed testing.
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Here is the center feed design, you can see the feed lips in the pic.
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Flush Bottom Metal - nuthead - 03-04-2020
Looks good! Do you have a rough ETA?
Flush Bottom Metal - ckp - 03-05-2020
Does the magazine body have any internal ribs that might affect the function of a round that has a longer body than the Grendel.
For example, a 6.5 carcarno with the shoulder set back 6 or 8 mm and necked down to 20 cal or 6mm.
Flush Bottom Metal - HokeyPokeyKid - 03-05-2020
nuthead Wrote:Looks good! Do you have a rough ETA?
rough ETA is this month (march)
Flush Bottom Metal - HokeyPokeyKid - 03-05-2020
ckp Wrote:Does the magazine body have any internal ribs that might affect the function of a round that has a longer body than the Grendel.
For example, a 6.5 carcarno with the shoulder set back 6 or 8 mm and necked down to 20 cal or 6mm.
The magazine has no internal ribs only a draft angle to keep the rounds pushing upward with even pressure, so if the case head is close to the Grendel or 7.63x39 you should be good