Mid-cap drum mag

[Doctor]

Has anyone ever thought about how interesting it would be to have something like this; a drum mag that holds maybe 500-1000 rounds without any rattling or winding? Seeing as we have m4 midcaps that go to about 120 mostly, I think it would be very neat and pretty milsim.

[slippy]

It would but a typical M4 style mid-cap holds on average about a hundred rounds. I think you MIGHT run into a problem with spring length, spring strength and overall manufacturing cost. But I like where your head is at.

[M.S.-ARC]

I wonder if your rattling issues would be solved if you just put 200-400 rounds in a drum mag and wind it tight. I know for a support weapon though, that'll be gone in seconds.

[slippy]

Never thought of that. Really the only real advantage to carrying a lmg is capacity though so why bother.

[Puma1]

I've been thinking for a while on a way to reduce the clatter of high caps, and I've recently came up with a design that uses a spring and board plate to push the bbs down. The top plate itself would be dual layered, with a hard top and feeding lip, springs in the middle, and then a piece of plastic on the bottom to keep the bbs down tight. It would essentially eliminate all up/down movement, and therefore overall rattle as well. The only problem i had was that it eliminated the space for around 50 bbs initially and only reached 3/4's of the way down the mag, so with about 20-25 shots left it began to rattle again,
While I've only tried it with a VN type high cap (since it's straight and easy to use) I'd imagine the same concept could be used for a large box mag.

[Squirrel]

I think there may be enough room in a box mag to do some sort of spiraled loop, but the biggest issue as stated would be spring length.

You would need 283 inches in single stack to accommodate 1200bbs, or roughly 140 inches in a stack and a half variation. Just typing that out made it sound not very feasible.

[Knief]

Jan 13, 2014 11:47:45 GMT -5 Puma1 said:

I've been thinking for a while on a way to reduce the clatter of high caps, and I've recently came up with a design that uses a spring and board plate to push the bbs down. The top plate itself would be dual layered, with a hard top and feeding lip, springs in the middle, and then a piece of plastic on the bottom to keep the bbs down tight. It would essentially eliminate all up/down movement, and therefore overall rattle as well. The only problem i had was that it eliminated the space for around 50 bbs initially and only reached 3/4's of the way down the mag, so with about 20-25 shots left it began to rattle again,
While I've only tried it with a VN type high cap (since it's straight and easy to use) I'd imagine the same concept could be used for a large box mag.

They already have a solution for that: midcaps. You really ought to be using them.

[Puma1]

I am using them. They're all I use unless I'm tuning up a gun and/or need a large supply of ammo.

With things like these drum mags, i was simply attempting to point out a (in my opinion) viable option.

[snafu]

I think even 500 round saw mags would be cool if they were reasonably priced. Then saw gunners could carry four of them and have an actual LMG rig for carrying them.