That would be cool.
Don't bother posting questions about .45 acp magazines. Black Dog Machine never, ever answers them.
This has been looked into by others, the issue is that there is *barely* enough room to squeeze a 45ACP round into an Uzi magwell, the sheetmetal on the 45ACp uzi mag is exceedingly thin.
there just isn't enough 'meat' to allow polymer to work.
Originally Posted By Dawg180:
This has been looked into by others, the issue is that there is *barely* enough room to squeeze a 45ACP round into an Uzi magwell, the sheetmetal on the 45ACp uzi mag is exceedingly thin.
there just isn't enough 'meat' to allow polymer to work.
Yep, just can't be done with polymer. No one should even try. It just can't be done. And I'm always crushing those flimsy .45 Uzi mags on accident.
ETA: I'd love to see a .45 acp drum (that works, not like the crappy ProMag one) that has a 1911 tower and an Uzi tower.
Originally Posted By crazytuco:
Originally Posted By Dawg180:
This has been looked into by others, the issue is that there is *barely* enough room to squeeze a 45ACP round into an Uzi magwell, the sheetmetal on the 45ACp uzi mag is exceedingly thin.
there just isn't enough 'meat' to allow polymer to work.
Yep, just can't be done with polymer. No one should even try. It just can't be done. And I'm always crushing those flimsy .45 Uzi mags on accident.
ETA: I'd love to see a .45 acp drum (that works, not like the crappy ProMag one) that has a 1911 tower and an Uzi tower.
That is a magazine designed for the AR-15 magwell, we are talking about an Uzi magwell.
So yeah, it can't be done in polymer in a magazine that fits in
an uzi magwell
Multiple companies have looked into it. The problem is not the width side to size, but rather the front-to-back dimension. Even some modern 45 ACP rounds will not always fit in a 45 ACP uzi magazine because it is too cramped from front to back. Polymer doesn't have the yield strength of metal, and the biggest issue is even if the mag didn't just blow apart from the stresses, you could likely poke a hole in the front or back with a pencil, and to boot polymer gets pretty flexible when thin causing the magazine to swell, which in turn makes it difficult (and sometimes impossible) to put in a magwell. The 9mm Tapco AR mags are an excellent example of this.
I have, however, heard from a fairly reliable source that a company is going to be making sheetmetal 45 ACP uzi mags.
Originally Posted By Dawg180:
Originally Posted By crazytuco:
Originally Posted By Dawg180:
This has been looked into by others, the issue is that there is *barely* enough room to squeeze a 45ACP round into an Uzi magwell, the sheetmetal on the 45ACp uzi mag is exceedingly thin.
there just isn't enough 'meat' to allow polymer to work.
Yep, just can't be done with polymer. No one should even try. It just can't be done. And I'm always crushing those flimsy .45 Uzi mags on accident.
ETA: I'd love to see a .45 acp drum (that works, not like the crappy ProMag one) that has a 1911 tower and an Uzi tower.
That is a magazine designed for the AR-15 magwell, we are talking about an Uzi magwell.
So yeah, it can't be done in polymer in a magazine that fits in
an uzi magwell
Multiple companies have looked into it. The problem is not the width side to size, but rather the front-to-back dimension. Even some modern 45 ACP rounds will not always fit in a 45 ACP uzi magazine because it is too cramped from front to back. Polymer doesn't have the yield strength of metal, and the biggest issue is even if the mag didn't just blow apart from the stresses, you could likely poke a hole in the front or back with a pencil, and to boot polymer gets pretty flexible when thin causing the magazine to swell, which in turn makes it difficult (and sometimes impossible) to put in a magwell. The 9mm Tapco AR mags are an excellent example of this.
I have, however, heard from a fairly reliable source that a company is going to be making sheetmetal 45 ACP uzi mags.
Please keep us posted
