Sk8ermog
04-23-2006, 04:44 AM
I'm currently in the middle of a mag project involving Luke, Rogue and soon Tunaman himself (but he doesn't know it yet). The project is getting kind of expensive so I was tempted to sell my Dye cocker. After some playing with it I fell back in love with the feel and look of it. Also since my mag will be down for awhile I needed another gun to play with. Now I'm looking at my cocker thinking it needs to be a lot lighter. So how do you lighten a cocker you ask? Well you mill it down to size. So I found a great little website called Turtle Innovations (http://www.turtleinnovation.com/conversions.htm) where they milled cockers into Turtle cockers.
Well I like the turtle cocker, but now they are offering a new Black Magic conversion that is looking pretty sweet. Just like the new WGP Black Magic the bolt stays in the body and there is simply a slit cut in the side and on top for the linkage arm and a bolt pin to connect the bolt and hammer.
So now my question is this. Should I go through with a massive upgrade and do you think it will make the gun look better, shoot faster, increase it's resale value, and/or be a lot lighter?
I have been wanting to know how it would look so I played in photoshop with a picture of my cocker. Here is what I came up with:
http://www.pbase.com/rgunn4/image/59051244.jpg
I would want to get the slits milled, front block converted to a Delrin mini-front block, hybred feed-neck (already purchased) and add a CP reg. I'd also like to get a new Z-Board or E2 frame on there, but we'll see...
So what I'm struggleing with now is do I sell my spare Hypermag to cover the cost of this new project or should I just sell the cocker as it is and save my money? I only really need one gun and after my main hypermag is done I'll be very happy with playing with it, but I know I'll just love this cocker and miss it very much if I sell it. I don't know what to do. What do you guys think?
Well I like the turtle cocker, but now they are offering a new Black Magic conversion that is looking pretty sweet. Just like the new WGP Black Magic the bolt stays in the body and there is simply a slit cut in the side and on top for the linkage arm and a bolt pin to connect the bolt and hammer.
So now my question is this. Should I go through with a massive upgrade and do you think it will make the gun look better, shoot faster, increase it's resale value, and/or be a lot lighter?
I have been wanting to know how it would look so I played in photoshop with a picture of my cocker. Here is what I came up with:
http://www.pbase.com/rgunn4/image/59051244.jpg
I would want to get the slits milled, front block converted to a Delrin mini-front block, hybred feed-neck (already purchased) and add a CP reg. I'd also like to get a new Z-Board or E2 frame on there, but we'll see...
So what I'm struggleing with now is do I sell my spare Hypermag to cover the cost of this new project or should I just sell the cocker as it is and save my money? I only really need one gun and after my main hypermag is done I'll be very happy with playing with it, but I know I'll just love this cocker and miss it very much if I sell it. I don't know what to do. What do you guys think?