my main AGD marker is a ghetto minimag that I am forever tinkering with. On Saturday I was prepping gear for the JI Big Game 11 and I was checking over this mag. I had recently added a crossfire 114/4500 to it. It's reg had sprung a leak, I tried to repair it to no avail, so I swapped the reg out for a AA raptor rex I had picked up recently. It was leaking out the fill nipple - I replaced that, to find that it fills fine - but nothing comes out. Thats a problem I'll deal with later . . . that bomb is safely stored in the garage now
I still really wanted to use this mag though . . . but I had no other in hydro hpa tanks beside my 13ci.
well a short while ago I had built a mag pistol using a parts bin lvl 7 valve - it has a 68automag front, a rental back, and just bits and pieces I had laying about. The valve worked beautifully with no tuning . . . it had good efficiency and consistency on 12grs - I was getting 20 usable shots off of a 12gr with it. I looked at that mag, at my ghetto mag, and hatched a plan.
I pulled the x-valve out the ghetto mag . . . I pulled the lvl7 valve out the pistol mag . . . I removed the LX setup from the x-valve and installed it into the parts bin special valve. I aired it up, adjusted the reg, and it worked! No tuning required, no fiddling, no nothing.
being adventurous I took it apart and replaced the on-off with a spare RT on-off I had. Aired it back up again - it worked great, with snappy fast trigger.
At the field I had to dial it down about 20fps at the chrono - and it worked like a champ. I ran a 20oz vertically, with an old lapco barrel and a stock coming off the bottomline.
it is seriously my new favorite mag now! I can't wait to try it with hpa instead of CO2 - but it did work wonderfully with the old school vert 20oz. Now I have to buy another LX setup for the X-valve
and maybe I should get my out of hydro tanks hydrod . . .
