The breeding cycle of the Classic Automag.

[Skyssx]

Tell me if any of this rings true.

Player starts with bog standard Automag. CF frame and PF body.
Pretty rail is purchased and installed.
Grip frame is upgraded to Intelliframe or other 1911 gripped alloy frame.
VFG added.
E-bay ReTro valve or X-valve replaces classic valve for RT effect.
Mainbody replaced with inexpensive center feed automag threaded body.
Original parts reassembled into Classic Automag.

Process repeats.

[BTAutoMag]

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[BTAutoMag]

Start with an automag, any automag.

play with it and now you want a 2x trigger, so you buy one.

play some more and now you want a new barrel.

so you go looking for a barrel and end up buying 5 you like.

you play some more and now want to shed some weight.

so you buy a ULE and a Xvalve.

Now you need another new barrel.

looking at this pile of parts you now realise you almost have another mag so you buy parts to make your pile into a mag.

repeat

[Skyssx]

Thought of something else. You have this parts mag, and you think "if I just did this it would be a complete loaner gun". Then you have a "loaner" mag and you think "If I added this and this part, it would be sufficient for a main back up gun".

[teichild]

Ha... im on #6 guess ill be working on a new loaner gun this summer

[ScottyBeans]

If they weren't so damn fun and easy to build it wouldn't be so bad!

But yeah I've had one turn into 3 in a quick couple of months. It's pretty ridiculous.

...My classic could sure use a ULE body though...

[Mole1119]

I have come to the conclusion that they are adult legos

[saintnoir]

nope tribbles...leave em near youre wallet and they breed

[Nobody]

everyone keeps forgetting the Luke/XMT/Cougars20th effect. you might say that those people start the breeding cycle, as they make something cool and you have to have, thus you start looking at the parts you have and you go building.

[Runamok]

Does anyone remember when if it wasn't from AGD it was called a Frankin Mag? Yep ,built from parts. Now they're "custom" mags. Valve and reg having matching numbers is a big thing but I've got more aftermarket regs( ANS and Hurricane) then matching #'s. They even work! I run between 5-20 Mags at any given time and I ask my self Aren't these enough? Then buy a new part.

[Cyco-Dude]

my experience has been more like, buy a nice classic automag to try out. then, get another one because it was dirt cheap and you want to restore it to it's former glory. then, get another one because you want one with a black body this time, and a lvl 10 bolt, and a y-frame, and a brass barrel...yeah.

how long until i get a 4th automag? three 'mags in four months is ok, right? o_O

[AGD]

LOL! This is a pretty funny thread! Maybe we will outlast the "mags suck" era!

AGD

[Nobody]

LOL! This is a pretty funny thread! Maybe we will outlast the "mags suck" era!

AGD

we did, that was back in the 90's, then the 2000's, and now in 2014, they are still kicking and no one needed to resurrect the guns.

[Jaan]

Back in the day when the classic as just a 68Automag it was more like...get a new barrel. Chop paint, get a revvy. Freeze up gun, get an expansion chamber and bottomline with matching anti-syphon tank. Do an 8 hole mod, just because.

[Patron God of Pirates]

LOL! This is a pretty funny thread! Maybe we will outlast the "mags suck" era!

AGD

Yeah, in my recent (last 3 years) experience we are past that. I used to get funny looks and "pft" "tut" reactions when I showed up with my Mags. Now I get either "What the hell is that?" or "watch out for that guy". The later because the accurately assume that I've been playing for a good long while. After a couple of games people are always asking to shoot them.

Tom, I know it's every AOer's pipe dream, but you have got to get together with XMT (CF mainbody), Couger20th (Uni-Frame), and Collin (hAir trigger), and produce the lightest, smallest, fastest firing true semi production marker ever (mechanical or otherwise). Yes, that is slicing the pie up many ways, but you can compensate by putting the price point at 2K. We all know most expensive = best

Related note; I think it's funny that over on Techpb an RT mag owns the overall live paint RoF record over full auto electro's. Anybody with a pneumag and a camera could easily take the pure mech record from the 10bps Cocker that holds it now.