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Another stormy day so I finally got back on the project. Starting with 10 sets of blanks I finally got one done to the point where I think I will stop after putting some final touches on the finish I applied a couple weeks ago (have 1 more functional and 7 far from done, only lost one so far - bent backwards). I got it to take & feed 7 rounds but now that I see how much undersized I had to make the follower for that to work I think the originals must have only held 6 rounds (as will the rest of mine).

After all this work the magazine came out looking like a POS after I applied finish (almost exactly the way I wanted it to look). When I showed it to a couple people and said I made that just a few weeks ago they look at me kind of funny, probably just surprised anyone would take credit for making something will a blue job that looked that bad (definitely not Turnbull quality).

Here are two pictures showing Kiwi's original (top) and mine in the white.




Here' mine as I think I will leave it -




CONTINUED IN NEXT POST - to many pictures to display in one