onegreatshot
03-27-2013, 05:21 PM
OK, got a question to ask reference the model 93 magazines. I have recently purchased a thumbhole 93 .22mag. with only a 5 round mag. So I thought, better buy more so I can shoot a lot of whatevers. I purchased 12 more 10 rd magazine all S/S type. Now I took it out to shoot and was disappointed with the magazines performance with the feeding of rds. Next I took the mag's. home and was looking at what might be wrong. First I read every article I could find in the savage shooters rim fire secdtion. Then I took out all the magazines and after a couple of minutes I discovered that 10 of the mag's had a long slot on the magazine to show how many round were in thr mag. The other 2 has a stamped hole showing what looks like a .17 cal. HMR looking bullett for a view slot. This HMR mag. gave me trouble loading and extracting rounds while the others worked fine. SO here it is, these 17 looking mags. will not work in a .22 mag. rifle that well. My luck was I was probably trying to shoot with the 2 HMR mags. Now I have (as stated in Dirty Harry) GOTS TO KNOW.