Lohman446
02-15-2006, 08:43 AM
I recently aquired a bunch of mag stuff at an extremely good price from a friend. In the deal I ended up with two e-mags, a classic mag, and probably enough stuff to build another. I upgraded a teammates RT PRO into an e-mag with one set of lowers, built myself a mechanical mag with a vertical feed body I had bought and made anything moneywise I spent on the rest in doing so. I did not expect to get his personal mag in the buying of the stores inventory, but he threw it in.
So, now I have e-mag lowers, a spare X-valve, a spare classic mag, several powerfeed bodies, several twistlock barrels, and several misc things laying around.
Well, I've wanted a pump, and one impulse is to sell/trade and get a nice pump, but then theres morals.
I was basically given this E-mag. Its previous owner will shoot whatever is around the shop this year. His choice no doubt, but it nags at me. This e-mag is in rough shape (no battery, old software, one jewel missing, safety sticks, etc). I have a feeling that perhaps I should rebuild it into something special (perhaps vertical twist lock, perhaps ULE body, etc.), slide the X-valve into it, slide a battery into it, make it into something special, something memorable, and give it back to him with the promise that he doesn't sell it again (to anyone but me). I got this thing for free from a friend, good deals are one thing, but this was the mag he was shooting when I came into the sport four or five years ago. This was an early mag that he earned at a competition. Maybe its just me but this is the marker I associate with him (in a day when good players change markers on a yearly basis). He switched to an Angel at the beginning of two years ago, shot it for awhile and then went back to his mag. He switched to an NME at the beginning of last year, and then went back to his mag. Do I use the parts I have and make him the "ultimate mechanical mag" (at least my definition of it, identical to mine) and give it to him? Maybe its me, but part of this rambling is, this is his mag, and I don't feel good about it not being his mag.
So, as I wrestle with my own moral dilemna... the question of thoughts and ideas falls to AO...
So, now I have e-mag lowers, a spare X-valve, a spare classic mag, several powerfeed bodies, several twistlock barrels, and several misc things laying around.
Well, I've wanted a pump, and one impulse is to sell/trade and get a nice pump, but then theres morals.
I was basically given this E-mag. Its previous owner will shoot whatever is around the shop this year. His choice no doubt, but it nags at me. This e-mag is in rough shape (no battery, old software, one jewel missing, safety sticks, etc). I have a feeling that perhaps I should rebuild it into something special (perhaps vertical twist lock, perhaps ULE body, etc.), slide the X-valve into it, slide a battery into it, make it into something special, something memorable, and give it back to him with the promise that he doesn't sell it again (to anyone but me). I got this thing for free from a friend, good deals are one thing, but this was the mag he was shooting when I came into the sport four or five years ago. This was an early mag that he earned at a competition. Maybe its just me but this is the marker I associate with him (in a day when good players change markers on a yearly basis). He switched to an Angel at the beginning of two years ago, shot it for awhile and then went back to his mag. He switched to an NME at the beginning of last year, and then went back to his mag. Do I use the parts I have and make him the "ultimate mechanical mag" (at least my definition of it, identical to mine) and give it to him? Maybe its me, but part of this rambling is, this is his mag, and I don't feel good about it not being his mag.
So, as I wrestle with my own moral dilemna... the question of thoughts and ideas falls to AO...