Quoted: i was over at the vector website a little while ago and saw that they had UZI 22lr mags. i was wondering if these could be made to work with any of the AR 22lr conversion kits. it would be great if everything lined up perfect with a standard 9mm colt style block, the .22 UZI mags, the ceiner kit, and just cuttingt a mag catch in the mag. well, the smokes coming out of my ears, have to stop thinking. what do you guys think? anyone toyed with it already?
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The first problem I could see with using the 9mm Colt style block would be the ejector along with the bullet ramp would have to removed since none of the AR 22lr conversion kits would work with those parts in the way and those Colt style magblocks are a little too expensive to chop up --- but there is no reason that a hi-cap 22lr magazine can't be modified to work with any of the 22lr conversion units or a
special magblock built to allow the use of the Uzi 22lr mags, but it would take a bunch or work, a dremel and some patience -- most people just want to be able to buy the hi-cap mag, that will work with their conversion unit, and be done with it.
The picture below is a 30 round Ciener mag that I modfied to work with the M261 GI conversion unit.
The picture below is a 20 round mag ( next to a GI 20 round mag on the left) I bought at a gun show that I also modified for the GI M261 conversion unit.
The Ciener mag was just something I did on a rainy day -- these mags are really to expensive to be doing this. The 20 round mag cost me $15 plus an old crap steel magazine for that build.
Hi-cap mags can be made to work with the conversion units but you have to be willing to do a bunch of work, a bunch of testing and then some more work.
What do the Uzi 22lr mags go for and what is the capacity?