Why is my automag so heavy?!

[leloup]

if you got rid of the pnue, milled the frame and used an asa. that would help alot.

I like the position of the pneumatics. I tried doing the same thing when I built one about two years back now, but my dye asa would not allow the clearance. I might have to give it another go these days.

[chatua]

if you got rid of the pnue, milled the frame and used an asa. that would help alot.

What do you mean use an asa?

Btw thanks for the inspiration guys.

[captian pinky]

oo sorry thought you had an on/off on there. you could get an asa that doesnt use a rail.

[Cyberious]

Really? Too heavy? I've used the X-Mag in all day Tournys as well as Scenario games. It is fine. You want heavy try an old wood stocked Sheridan pump rifle or a VM-68. Mags aren't that heavy.

[Wrathbringer]

Cyberious, he was being sarcastic the whole time. The post was a joke...

That's a BEAUTIFUL mag you have there chatua! I was thinking of doing the same thing several months ago but I decided that I didn't need another mag project then. I'm seriously tempted by your pictures to start it though, lol.

[koleah]

Mags aren't that heavy.

You serious? Did you see all that extra weight that he's lugging around on that thing? He may as well have added a couple lead weights what with the way he's got it set up.

Heck, he probalby doesn't even notice the difference when he's got a full hopper on there.

[2BAD4U]

pump some iron. work out your arms. go with a lighter hopper. use a gun sling. lighten your HP tank ( ninja )... :)

[DoubleDutch]

Nice job on getting the weight down...

It inspired me to weigh my E-Micro I just built... 3 lbs 5 oz. A Mini is what, like 2 lbs? I guess it is over half again as heavy, but we are still talking only 1 1/4 lbs. Is that really that big of a deal? Never shot anything lighter so just wondering. I've heard people commenting that a marker that is too light is not stable enough.

[OPBN]

It's amazing how used to a lighter marker you get though.

[Mongoose]

Add a helium rail

[sjrtk]

Add a helium rail

I am working on that it is tough to keep if frozen long enough to use it the refrigeration equiptment alone negates th lightness of it.

[KillerOfGiants]

Are there lighter regs tan the one used on the xvalve? You could have a back cap milled for the valve, mount a reg, mil down the back of the rail to the grip frame and mil down the front of the rail back to the vertical ASA for the reg.

[cyrus-the-virus]

Maybe a custom carbon fiber rail?

[chatua]

pump some iron. work out your arms.

Yeaaaaaa. I'm gonna work out so hard that I'm gonna be able to throw a paintball at 300fps. Then I can just ditch the silly gun setup all together and just throw paint from a pod. Never will have to complain about a heavy gun ever again.

[mpsd]

Maybe a custom carbon fiber rail?

Can one mill a CF block like an aluminum block? If so, it's doable. AM/MM rails don't have a single thread on them.