6mm BR / 6mm Dasher Mag Kit - AW Spacer

Product Description

The 6mm BR cartridge and its variants are legendary in the rifle competition world for their inherent accuracy, easy loading, long barrel life and low cost to shoot.  The only hitch was making the cases feed and function in a repeater. Part of the problem is the ejection cycle but for those with actions that can handle the small case feeding them into the chamber is the next issue.

The Patriot Valley Arms magazine conversion kit offers shooters the option to use standard AW 10rd magazines with a block spacer that also acts as a follower guide by channeling.  These spacers take only the most modest of tools (a plastic or rubber mallet) and less than a minute of time to convert the magazines back and forth from full length 308 size cartridges to shortened 6 BR type rounds.

The Patriot Valley Arms spacer requires the user to trim the OEM follower but for AW mag users with Dasher aspirations this is the ticket!  The spacer uses a guiding channel to keep the follower from "wandering" through the magazine body and rolling left to right during stacking.  They also feature Patented DirtSwipe (TM) geometry to aid magazine reliability in dirty, dusty, or otherwise adverse conditions.

These spacers are fully CNC machined from high lubricity plastic.  The internal length change supports cases up to ~2.53-2.55" (mag bodies vary from part to part).

The modification is pretty simple.

1) Pull the guts from the AW mag.
2) Slide a paperclip or toothpick in between the spring and follower to wedge the spring away from the bottom side of the follower. This is to allow clearance for a band saw blade to avoid the spring.
3) Measure 0.37 - 0.39" and trim that much off the back edge of the follower to make room for the spacer. Take care not to hurt the spring.
4) Insert/wedge the spacer so that the channel in it is facing towards the front of the mag with the cutout for the spring and bolt facing "up"