Stainless Steel Stoeger Magazines

[Dwight Gruber]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by John Sabato:
<strong>Would all that would be necessary to make a current production Stainless Luger accept vintage magazines be a broaching operation on the magazine well to allow the rolled sheetmetal joint to enter the well? Is there enough metal there to support opening the mag well to accept vintage magazines?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">JohnS,

I don't think that is entirely the problem. When I went to the range with Steve Richards upon the receipt of his new stainless, we did a check. Iirc, a steel magazine is too large in overall girth to fit in the magazine well--a visual check revealed that the stainless steel magazines are made of thinner metal, that even though the inside measurements may be the same the outer measurements are not, and the mag well is machined to the tight tolerance of the stainless magazine exterior.

Steve may remind me if my memory is in error...

--Dwight