Tooling around with the Empire Trracer and Automag

So I was tooling around with my Empire Trracer, making plans to convert it to bolt action for Sniper Fin rounds.  I despise playing without a regulator, so I stuck one of my old AA Vigilantes that I picked up for like $10 a piece when I&I was clearing them out on ebay...  and I thought to myself...  single stack, regulator in back...  wow, this is vaguely Automag like.

For the Sniper Fin mod, the top rail of the Trracer will need to be removed in order to make extra clearance.  Then I kind of looked at the Automag body, then the Trracer body...  Then a tiny little light bulb went off.

I've been wanting a mag fed Automag for a long time now.  I even designed some parts to adapt Ariakon  ACP magazines to fit on a modified RT Pro, but never managed to find someone who could produce them.

So anyways, I happened to have an Automag body which I had modified for hand loading First Strike rounds, so I kind of crammed the chocolate and peanut butter together...

YAKAWOW!  Yes, retard, the nylon ties are temporary.

It's not an exact match; the OD of a Trracer is 1", and the OD of an Automag body is like 1/8" wider.  I chose to lop the wings off and do a little sanding to fit, but another option might be to just thermo-form it against there.

As a bonus, you get picatinny rails, something you might have wanted anyways!

From there, it's not too much of a stretch to just slap chop an SA-17 magazine in place:

Yo dawg, I herd u liek mags, so I put a mag on ur mag so you can shoot a mag while you shoot a mag

And, well, why stop there?  I did a search for anyone who had put a Rip Clip on an Automag before, but the only thing I found was some guy who bailed on the idea and went with a Rotor instead.  Coward.

Rip Clip seems to fit nicely

It's actually not bad.  Far better than having a Rip Clip/cyclone on a typical 98 based marker like a Model 98/BT-4/A5/etc.  Hopper's too far forward on those guys.  I shoot those fuckers all the time.

I'm planning on giving it a try with the shortest Tac cap possible.  Fuck.  Forgot to add that to my recent order from ansgear.

View from the driver's seat

The caveat here is you will clearly want to have a reverse valve, although you can probably just go ahead and loop the macroline over the Rip Clip or under the SA-17 magazine if need be.

Need to figure out how to actually mount the Trracer rail on there.  I might just go the lazy route and glue it on.

Takeaways:

• It's too bad AGD doesn't give a shit about Automags anymore, else they'd be making cool shit like this
• It's too bad Tippmann/BT (Empire) are too fucking dense to make left feed guns