• How To Remove Your Blind Mag Body and Follower (SF and CF)

    Every once in a while somebody posts up the question "How do I Remove my blind mag?" or "Do I have a Centerfeed or a Staggerfeed?". While blind mag removal is pretty straight forward, I do know the feeling of worrying that you might break something and a little instruction could help.

    Now first to clarify, the Centerfeed Blind Mags stay inside the stock when your action is removed from the stock. The Staggerfeed Blind Mags are attached to the action and will come out with the action when removed from the stock.


    Centerfeed Blind Mag Removal

    Here you can see the CF mag body and follower still installed into the stock. Notice the location of the silver tab of the "L" clip is down inside the notch over the pillar in the stock.


    To remove the magazine from the stock, insert a flat blade screwdriver under the "L" clip. Careful not to bend the tab. A little flexing of the tab is normal but you want to be sure you get the tip of the blade all the way against the back of the "L" clip as indicated by the arrow. Now rotate the screwdriver to start lifting the magazine out of the stock. Be sure to twist the driver and not to pry with the driver as you may bend or damage the "L" clip. Now just lift out the magazine.


    Here is what the magazine looks like out of the stock and is placed in order to be re-installed into the stock. To re-install just insert the "L" clip back into its slot and with the follower inside the mag body just push it back into the stock until the mag and clip are fully to the bottom. Often time you will feel a slight pop as it seats back in.



    Comments 8 Comments
    1. maxcarp's Avatar
      maxcarp -
      Can a Stagger Feed be converted to a Center Feed?
    1. Hotolds442's Avatar
      Hotolds442 -
      Not without some milling machine work to the action.
    1. Tiggle's Avatar
      Tiggle -
      Sorry to necroBump for my first post but I joined because I am having feeding issues on my new to me 308 model 110FP (stagger feed) that I think are due to damaged feed lips and I had a bear of a time removing my blind magazine. I tried using the twisting screwdriver method and only succeeded in breaking the tip of the flathead.

      Ultimately I was only able to get it out by applying significant pressure to the left and right sides of the magazine to pull the front tab out of the slot and even then it required some "persuasion" with a brass hammer. I reshaped do the lips a little and fixed the bow I put in the sides of the body getting it out but had to do some work to modify the body so that I could get it back in. The gun feeds a little better but it's still not 100%. Unless I can figure out how the mag removal/replacement works I have to imagine that I'd mess up a replacement mag body just the same so I'll probably have to cough up the $209 for a DBM kit from these guys http://cdiprecisiongunworks.com .

      Any advice on what else I could do to get the mag in and out? Would using a padded C-clamp to pull the front and back of the mag towards each other (and the tabs out of the slots) work better than crushing the left and right sides together like I ended up doing?
    1. Spudgun's Avatar
      Spudgun -
      Thank you for this post.

      I would have gone a different direction and most likely ruin the mag....

      Great help. Your #
    1. bigjeepman's Avatar
      bigjeepman -
      This info just helped me too as I have never had to remove a blind magazine from a stock. Thanks guys ...
    1. Parker's Avatar
      Parker -
      Helpful link
    1. Hoot's Avatar
      Hoot -
      Never mind
    1. WeeHooker's Avatar
      WeeHooker -
      Just purchased a used 12BVSS and this was very helpful. Thanks for posting!