BuckleSyxx
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I don't know about you guys, but when I buy ammo, I like to buy it on stripper clips. I like to take the sleeves and stash a "magazine" of clips in the bag. But I haven't seen a stripper clip loader on the market for the Bulgarian ((10)) 74N magazines.
I do, however, happen to have in my possession, an AR-15 "Striplula, you can get one here, for example.
I did some tinkering last night at work, and have successfully converted the Striplula to load the 74N magazines, and boy is it slick. DISCLAIMER! slight modification to your $45 magazine is needed, but very slight indeed.
Tools needed:
Small, flat file
Dikes (diagonal wire cutters for you politically correct folk)
Some 80 grit emory cloth strips
Soldering Iron (optional)
First, you'll need to strip your magazines down, pull the follower and the such outta the body. Then you're gonna take your striplula in hand and cut the locations marked in the pictures using the dikes. Once snipped, it's easy to remove your cut pieces of plastic. Go carefully, as you don't want to take too much off. Also, you will be removing the top radius where it slides on to the magazine to allow it to slide down where it needs to go.
Then on the back of the striplula, you'll notice a bit of a tail. That will need to come off. I did as wide as the magazine latch lug was, and clipped it in three spots, at the outter edges and center, then twisted the snipped sections off. I used a file to smooth this lip out. Right about here, after you've carefully taken enough material off, it should slide down on to the magazine to set the guide of the loader into the bolt channel/feed lip valley of the magazine.
Now what you're doing with the striplula should be done. You're going to move on to the magazine. Take your small, flat file, and put a nice bevel on the inside, back wall of the magazine. This will be shaving some of the metal from the top. You don't need to remove much. Just a nice 45-ish degree. You're gonna wanna stop and look at the loader installed, and pay attention to how the rounds are going to enter the magazine, make it as easy as possible. While you're on this step, it doesn't hurt to have a few loaded strippers with you to test function. They should be sliding right into the magazine now with the striplula loader. Once you have enough of a bevel in there, take your 80 grit emory cloth and polish your newly filed area enough to smooth it out.
Install the striplula a few times. Notice the line it makes on the feed lips? There are two little raised rail like bits molded into the loader that guides into the AR-15 magazine spoon grooves to hold the striplula on. Take your soldering iron or your file and follow these lines so the striplula has somewhere to grab the magazine, and boom! your done!
Can hardly tell, short of the grooves you put in on the outside of the magazine, that anything was done! And best of all, the striplula loads the magazines fast! Spend more time shooting and less time loading, fellas!
Oh, and as a side note, AR-15 Magpul Rubber Magpuls work on these too! Little hard to install at first but they're solid!
I do, however, happen to have in my possession, an AR-15 "Striplula, you can get one here, for example.
I did some tinkering last night at work, and have successfully converted the Striplula to load the 74N magazines, and boy is it slick. DISCLAIMER! slight modification to your $45 magazine is needed, but very slight indeed.
Tools needed:
Small, flat file
Dikes (diagonal wire cutters for you politically correct folk)
Some 80 grit emory cloth strips
Soldering Iron (optional)
First, you'll need to strip your magazines down, pull the follower and the such outta the body. Then you're gonna take your striplula in hand and cut the locations marked in the pictures using the dikes. Once snipped, it's easy to remove your cut pieces of plastic. Go carefully, as you don't want to take too much off. Also, you will be removing the top radius where it slides on to the magazine to allow it to slide down where it needs to go.
Then on the back of the striplula, you'll notice a bit of a tail. That will need to come off. I did as wide as the magazine latch lug was, and clipped it in three spots, at the outter edges and center, then twisted the snipped sections off. I used a file to smooth this lip out. Right about here, after you've carefully taken enough material off, it should slide down on to the magazine to set the guide of the loader into the bolt channel/feed lip valley of the magazine.
Now what you're doing with the striplula should be done. You're going to move on to the magazine. Take your small, flat file, and put a nice bevel on the inside, back wall of the magazine. This will be shaving some of the metal from the top. You don't need to remove much. Just a nice 45-ish degree. You're gonna wanna stop and look at the loader installed, and pay attention to how the rounds are going to enter the magazine, make it as easy as possible. While you're on this step, it doesn't hurt to have a few loaded strippers with you to test function. They should be sliding right into the magazine now with the striplula loader. Once you have enough of a bevel in there, take your 80 grit emory cloth and polish your newly filed area enough to smooth it out.
Install the striplula a few times. Notice the line it makes on the feed lips? There are two little raised rail like bits molded into the loader that guides into the AR-15 magazine spoon grooves to hold the striplula on. Take your soldering iron or your file and follow these lines so the striplula has somewhere to grab the magazine, and boom! your done!
Can hardly tell, short of the grooves you put in on the outside of the magazine, that anything was done! And best of all, the striplula loads the magazines fast! Spend more time shooting and less time loading, fellas!
Oh, and as a side note, AR-15 Magpul Rubber Magpuls work on these too! Little hard to install at first but they're solid!
