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  • FiXeL
    Registered Gun-Whore
    • May 2006
    • 819
    #1

    Promags?

    I just bought a promag, not really knowing what it was but after seeing the pics the seller mailed me i guessed it was something special. It's a 68 automag that has been modified by John Sosta when he was working for Powerpulse Products. It comes with the valve labeled "Promag 194" sandblasted on it and its certificate.

    How rare (or common) are these? The certificate is from 1993 and the gun is in pretty used shape, but not too banged up as far i can tell.
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    • FiXeL
      Registered Gun-Whore
      • May 2006
      • 819
      #2
      Here are the pics:









      Pic of certificate

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        • wjr
          Registered User
          • Feb 2006
          • 995
          #3
          Right as I start to think I know everything about Mags, something like this pops up.

          I'm eager ot hear more!

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            • punkncat
              One foot less
              • Feb 2003
              • 5841
              #4
              Count me in an anxiously awaiting the story behind.....

              /crouch by campfire

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                • ß?µ£ §mµ®ƒ
                  University of Rochester
                  • Aug 2003
                  • 1012
                  #5
                  I love relics of our mag history! Nice find!
                  • AGD "Yea well our intention is to
                    take over the world....one country at a time..... :)"
                  • Rt Pro X Valved Warp fed My Rtp
                  • Props to Echo for the sig

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                    • Ninjeff
                      it only takes one.
                      • Jan 2007
                      • 1205
                      #6
                      Indeed. Im anxious to hear also

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                        • MoeMag
                          Still here.
                          • Dec 2005
                          • 1821
                          #7
                          My bet is that it is a AGD valve that has been polished then sandblasted their own logo onto it.

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                            • Shane-O-Mac
                              Registered User
                              • Sep 2002
                              • 1045
                              #8
                              Could be the mag clone, called "Colonial" I think. Looks like a rgular Mag to me though.....

                              What is the story of that Tank Reg?????? Thats more interesting to me than the gun...
                              I have nothing good to put here...........


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                                • mag_lover05
                                  AEQUITAS
                                  • Jul 2005
                                  • 970
                                  #9
                                  well where is TK??? this is bound to make him raise an eyebrow...

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                                    • Lohman446
                                      Useful posts: 7
                                      • Jun 2003
                                      • 9315
                                      #10
                                      My bet, private label mag like the SmartMag, Diggers Centerfire mags, etc.
                                      "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Its not" - Dr Suess

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                                        • aqua_scummm
                                          matthewpace.blogspot.com
                                          • Oct 2006
                                          • 185
                                          #11
                                          odds are it's not a clone, the ones I have seen are similar is concept only, and look quite different.

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                                            • AGD
                                              The man from AGD

                                              • Oct 2000
                                              • 5916
                                              #12
                                              Ask and I appear....

                                              In the very first batch of mags, the front and back of the regulator were made on screw machines. The air flow hole from the on/off on the front half was always at the top where it is now. The back half of the reg had a hole drilled randomly 360 degrees in a circle that was machined into the reg body so the air would flow around and get to the hole.

                                              John Sosta figured out that if you happened to get a reg where the two holes were 180 degrees apart, the air flow would be less than ones where the holes lined up. This was one of several things that could have caused shoot down in the first batch. John drilled several holes in the regulator so at least one of them would be close to the hole in the front reg. It worked great as a retrofit and when he did them he called them "Pro Mags".

                                              In the next batch and all subsequent batches, we made sure that the holes lined up across from each other and the problem was permanently fixed. The name continued to float around for years and like in this case, people come across them and think they are something special. They were basically a 2.0 bug fix and it wasn't a very serious bug.

                                              A little more AGD history for the archives.

                                              AGD
                                              sigpic

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                                                • aqua_scummm
                                                  matthewpace.blogspot.com
                                                  • Oct 2006
                                                  • 185
                                                  #13
                                                  Wow, awesome piece of history!

                                                  At about a max of 9 BPS (or so) did you really notice much of an improvement by moving the holes?

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                                                    • txaggie08
                                                      Big mouth
                                                      • Jan 2005
                                                      • 1213
                                                      #14
                                                      So tom, how many of them were actually relabeled like this?

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                                                        • Automagsam
                                                          www.theburkepost.com
                                                          • Jan 2006
                                                          • 345
                                                          #15
                                                          Thats an awesome piece of AGD history dude, I would not let that go. I just love this kind of stuff.

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