Cartridge Counter Grip Mod

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by lugerholsterrepair

A window covering would necessarily need to be placed on the inside and this would block the travel of the follower button? Perhaps it is recessed enough?

That LOB article that Eric linked in the other thread seems to indicate that the gripframe would need to be modified to make room for the strip, indicator, and window...His sketches look like the indicator sticks out past the magazine tube...

http://www.landofborchardt.com/AEluger-article.html

Ugh...That's all way too much work...I was going to ask Gerry if he had ever modified a magazine to CC spec, but that 'button' is much too much...

I was thinking the pin was just made longer and stuck out level with the side of the magazine tube...I should have known the Germans would never make anything simple when they could make it with 8 or 10 separate parts...

[sheepherder]

Hayhugh posted a link to a slotted CC grip set by Sile -

https://www.gunpartscorp.com/ad/985140.htm

That looks interesting. I'm not familiar with Sile grips, but a set like that with an extended magazine button in a left-side milled-slot magazine might be kind of cool...

I don't know how you'd get a window insert in the grip though...

I can see one issue - Does Sile offset the slot like the original CC grips??? Or are they centered to the follower button centerline??? If they were offset then you could mark the magazine itself with the graduations instead of that added metal strip the originals had in the grip...

[sheepherder]

I've moved on to a set of new aftermarket grips. No idea where they came from or when, but the checkering is coarse, my thread gauge says ~14tpi...

Grip slot is awaiting chamfering. Not really necessary, I just feel a milled wooden slot should be chamfered, instead of having a sharp edge.

If I were doing a grip for a 'customer' [coff, coff], I would suggest moving the slot over 1/8" toward the center of the grip. This would leave half the magazine button exposed and also a flat section of the magazine body that could then be inscribed with numerals that would correspond with number of cartridges and be seen through the slot.

I don't know any jewelers who could pantograph numbers on a magazine, but Xmas is coming and the malls used to have several small kiosks that did engraving...

I'll see if I can angle-mill the 45º chamfer to the slot next.

(I might try bleaching the stain out too...Way too dark...)