10 Round 44Mag Magazines – An Ongoing Post

8/1/23 – The hundreds of 10 round magazines for the Ruger 44Mag Carbines are released to the market, but what now?

We are still working with the local plastic injection molding company to get these things made more economically — the process has been started, but we still do not have the first trial pieces in hand; still waiting.

With so many of the 44Mag magazines around, we have actually started eyeballing them to see if a conversion insert could be made up that would allow the magazine to fit & feed 357Mag ammo, as it otherwise fits in the 77/357 perfectly.  This may take a few minutes to really come to grips with the Yes/No possibility.  Bear with us.

With some prodding from the Ruger carbine family of owners, overseas, IQ Munitions, LLC. is now set-up with Easy Export, and can sell & ship internationally.

For a few minutes of sloppy & blurry entertainment, we composed a 6X-speed video of the magazine halves being machined.  Check it out..!

6/16/23 – We’re mostly ready, but not fully ready… are you?

We have settled on a couple things: The price will be higher(*still* trying to sort out details there, ouch), and, the shipping will be Free(included in the price).
As a small company, we don’t have some large corporation to financially fall on, so these magazines will be supported by us when they get into your hands; we have the right to fall flat on our face if these things fail to serve you. For the 300+ that we’ve made in past years, we’ve had less than a hand-full of issues with these units.
Due to a lack of 1 component, we will only have about 1/4 of the total batch available for sale for the first couple weeks — we’re working on getting that resolved.

While you have a couple day’s wait… check out our blog post on the integrally suppressed rifles made by Wren Metal Works; we have been quite impressed.

6/6/23 – A little compilation of pictures from the local company performing the hard-anodize on the aluminum body components… they have quite the setup:

We are still lacking two components, as far as being able to have assembled magazines; we’re getting close. More to come…

As of 5/9/23, we have received a shipment of aluminum, and steel, with the potential, and intention, to produce, via machining, 500 magazines — AND they are currently in production. This batch will not be our desired “under 100 dollars” magazine we were hoping to bring to the market, but, these will be made to our satisfaction, and much sooner than the injection molded kind — assuming that turns out well(we’re still hopeful).

Update 03/22/23

To our valued customers: Our last update in late 2022 promised a magazine release date by the end of the year. As luck would have it the injection molding company we contracted with failed 5 times to produce a magazine body that met our dimensional tolerances. So we are forced to suck it up and move on. We now have contracted with another company to injection mold the magazine bodies. They are roughly 14 weeks out before they can get to our project and probably another 2-3 weeks after that before a delivery date on mag bodies. Having lost 6 months of time and $15K we are still committed to bring the 10 round magazine back to market. So please hang in there .  All e-mail inquiries about magazine availability will be flagged for notification when the magazines are ready to ship

10/18/22

After nearly 2-years of effective silence on the front of any of the higher capacity magazines for Ruger 357, and 44mag, carbines, we are building up to a new approach to providing magazines to you, our welcomed array of Ruger carbine enthusiasts.
So, what are we up to??

1. Plastic injection molding of the body-halves, and ‘follower’.
   — Quantity & involved-time of production was a major challenge to us from day 1 and has been a sticking point that we have wanted to overcome as we go forward.
   — Sufficient toughness and survivability of the plastic injection molded magazines is an absolute must.
2. Fully designed, sourced, and made, in USA. We have been privileged to have a close connection with a decades-experienced Plastic Injection Molding designer, and the companies they recommend.
3. Below 100-dollar price point.
   –Even originally the idea of selling a magazine for well-over 100 dollars was hard to stomach, but, staring at the numbers pertaining to materials-costs and machining time, we couldn’t deny the fact that ‘these things are going to cost this much?!’. This time around, one hugely favorable part is how low-cost the fiber-reinforced plastic-injection-molded bodies will be.
   —As well, we have discovered the steel feed lips are able to be scaled back considerably, so, one of the most challenging-to-produce parts has just gotten much simpler, thus reducing materials-costs, and manufacturing time, again. Excellent..!
4. Available quantity.
   –The last time around it took us over a month(solid) to make 200+ 44-Magnum magazines. After initial handling, testing and review of 20+ ‘plastic magazines’ in the month ahead, we will be aiming to do a first-run of somewhere around 2,000 magazines, which should keep most everyone happy for a while, and we do not plan on stopping there.
5. Regarding the 77/357 magazine: we haven’t gotten around to redesigning it for injection molding, yet, as we are still waiting to see how this endeavor with the 44Mag magazines goes. Some-day though….