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Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:06 pm**

i need to make a high capacity magazine for my automatic air cannon, i will be shooting .5 caliber slingshot ammo, any help is greatly appreciated

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:40 pm**

As in like an airsoft mag?

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:31 pm**

for .50 cal bb's ur better of modding a real 100rd beta magazine from a ar15 as far as i know

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:44 pm**

yah i was thinking about doing a whined up airsoft mag because i already have the spring and im on a short budget cause i just spent it on my new air cannon, and are there any cheaper airsoft mags i could mod ?

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:52 pm**

Why not just go with a tube mag? You could get a 30 round mag in 15 inches and if the mag was curved it would not really seem that long..

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:55 pm**

yah i will problably just do that, but i am having trouble finding the right compression spring, any idea where to get one ?

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:26 pm**

i made a mag that uses the air from the check valve that is used to pilot the qev , i haven't tested it yet , but im pretty sceptical about it, it think it will get about 2 or 3 rounds out and then stop working, i will post pictures of it later

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:30 pm**

Coil your own. http://home.earthlink.net/~bazillion/compression.html

You do not want a very stong spring, but a very long not too strong one.

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:35 pm**

i did but it was to weak it wouldn't push the bbs up , so im gonna get thicker gauge wire and try it out

Posted: **Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:49 pm**

tjrobison11 wrote:i did but it was to weak it wouldn't push the bbs up , so im gonna get thicker gauge wire and try it out

The other option is to make it with fewer turns per inch. I believe halving turns per inch will double the spring "strength" for a given displacement.

Posted: **Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:34 pm**

Or you could just use a hopper, paintball guns don't seem to mind...

Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:05 am**

I agree with jack, if you get the rest of the thing to work a hopper should be fine, if it's really full auto then skiping a shot not and then shouldn't really matter

Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:09 am**

hoppers work but theres nothing cooler than reloading a mag

If you want to go the hopper route and a grav hopper can't keep up check out one of the 50 cal hoppers for paintball.

Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:48 am**

killerbanjo wrote:hoppers work but theres nothing cooler than reloading a mag

Well, hypothetical question - would you prefer an assault rifle with five standard magazines, or this?

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I know what I would chose

Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:25 pm**

Mags... those drums are really heavy!