02-15-2019, 12:26 AM
grayfox Wrote:If you can make a shorter spring out of the wire for your shorty-mag and use the full length in your full mag... might be easier.
Edit to add -- wild thought out of the blue... for that short mag, what about the spring from a savage or other 3/4-rounder mag, fit up to your howa follower? just totally brainstorming off the wall...
If I had one too try I would. Don't want to drop cash on one and it be a waist. I did order up the spring wire from brownells, so hopefully I can get it worked out sometime next week.
I did bust open my rem sportsman 78 270 too get a few messurments of the flat spring in it. But it's way to wide to fit in the howa mag. I would destroy it trying too shave it down to be slim enough to fit the howa mag body.
If the spring wire I ordered works I will make up a bunch and stash them and if a member should lose are break one of theirs I can fix them up.
But if it doesn't work well may have to make some changes in the gun safe. I wont keep a rifle I can't get or make parts for.