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Offline okiecat

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« on: January 11, 2005, 07:18:37 PM »
Who makes a semi with a tubular magazine in .17 hmr or mach 2.?!!!
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« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2005, 09:01:22 PM »
No one that I'm aware of and I doubt you'll see one for the pointy bullets.
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2005, 03:01:04 AM »
Pointy bullets in a tube magazine shouldn't be a problem for a rimfire. . .
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2005, 05:37:35 AM »
Depends on how they sit in the tube.
The rim would make them offset in the tube enough that
I could see it as being a hazzard. I do not think
that I would want one simply to play it safe.
Why tempt fate.
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« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2005, 07:03:41 AM »
Marlin's new 717M2 semi auto has a clip magazine, not a tube magazine, I would expect that to be the norm for the the .17 cal family.
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« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2005, 07:31:10 AM »
Pointy bullets pointing  off center due to rim, points resting on rim.   I would not be too concerned about recoil firing a round. Now if the rifle was dropped  on its muzzle or butt you might get the rounds to go off.  For that reason, I would be surprised to see a manufacture produce a tube magazine gun in this caliber.

I  know  if you brought a tube magazine rifle to me to relined and rechamber for these cartridges, I would decline.
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« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2005, 01:47:42 PM »
I thought about the pointy bullet thing when I got my Win 9417.  It's capable of holding 11 rounds in there, but I usually stop at 6 - 8 so the spring isn't compressed too much.
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« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2005, 07:01:27 PM »
i had a gunsmith to change my marlin model 60 to a 17aguila. he had problems with the bullets getting cockeyed in the tube. it would shoot 9 or 10 shots before it would get stuck everytime, so he wouldnt let me have it. he put a new barrel back in it and gave it back. he didnt charge me nuthing but he was concerned enough to not let it go.. :D
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« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2005, 12:55:52 PM »
Well FWIW, Winchester makes the 9417 which has a tubular magazine, so it has been done, just not in an auto......yet!

http://www.winchesterguns.com/prodinfo/catalog/detail.asp?cat_id=524&type_id=036&cat=004C
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« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2005, 09:21:52 AM »
I just saw on Browning"s website they are making their lever action rimfire in 17HM2.  It has a tube magazine as well.  Having forgotten to change the firing pin selector when going from centerfire to rimfire on a Contender,  I can tell you that a rimfire cartridge struck in the center of the back of the cartridge WILL NOT fire!
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« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2005, 02:31:02 PM »
Henry makes a tube lever action 17 and no one has had any problems with it either .One thing I think you guys are over looking in a centerfire there is enough recoil to cause a round to maybe go off in the tube. I doubt if recoil would be a issue in the rimfires and doubt the recoil would have enough pressure to dent the case enough to set the priming off. Jim
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2005, 07:13:31 PM »
i think the main problem with tube magazines and "pointy" bullets is not the fear of a round going off in the magazine (probably impossible), but that the pressure of the bullets tip rubbing against the base of the next round, would cause the tip to be damaged, effecting flight
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