Cool new SMP 404 product, FYI

04 March 2010, 20:35

I saw this new offering from Sound Metal Products.

If you're a fan of the 404 Jeffery as I am, you might find this very interesting!

From their web site:

4MJ We have re designed the floorplate, box dimension and follower to accomodate (4) 404 Jeffery rounds in the magazine. All in a standard depth configuration. $450

4MXJ The 4MXJ is a drop box to accomodate 5 rounds of 404 Jeffery. $450

I think this is great.

Cheers, Allen

04 March 2010, 20:43

724wd

man, i saw this and thought it was Tom Bosley for SMC... glad it's an actual post!

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05 March 2010, 06:45

Duane Wiebe

A lot of interest in this new product.. We have given the follower a bit more "wriggle room" and made the floorplate out of slighly thicker material to create a sort of shallow "Rigby style"...you can hardly see the difference..you know..a few thou here and another few there...pretty soon we're talking serious improvement.

The rails, of course, will need to take a share of the increased capacity in the form of proper machining.

But..when set up right, you can easily load four down in the standard depth and still be able to compress the top round to slide one "up the pipe":

Even this variation still has a shallower profile than most available out there.

We also have a protype for four down in the 500 Jeff...available shorly. This involves a Rigby or (coffin) style floorplate. And lastly, the "coffin style" is now available for the magnum Enfield. up to 505 Gibbs...

The past year of development has been gratifying to us and I give a lot of credit to our prouction manager, Tim Cleary

05 March 2010, 07:03

GeoffM24

I had Jim Dubell use one of these Wiebe bottom metal pieces for my 404 Jeff project. I seem to remember Jim saying Duane had them in stock so I wonder if I got the older style.

Project so far...

05 March 2010, 19:31

Duane Wiebe

The first style can be retrofitted with new floorplate, follower

05 March 2010, 21:24

JBrown

quote:
Originally posted by Duane Wiebe:
The first style can be retrofitted with new floorplate, follower

So, is the box the same width as the 458 lott box?

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