New Member from Germany and question...

[Oliver]

Hiya,

my name is Oliver, living near Stuttgart, in the southern part of Germany.

When I was in the army, I got contact to soldiers from the US and from that time on I was interested in classic US weapons.

I found this forum, because I'm interested in the Remington 8/81 & FN 1900 rifles. From the technical and mechanical view, it is an outstanding system and a milestone of rifle development!

Hope to find a good community here to share information, experiences and have discussions about that special topic with people all over the world.



Because, I'm not so deep in this rifle, I have a question to all of you!

I have the opportunity to buy a POE 81 rifle, but without a magazine!
The detachable magazines are hard to find in Europe. If anybody would sell one that would be fine.

The other idea is to use a regular detachable magazine. But, I do not know if a standart magazine or even a Krieger one, will fit and works in a POE rifle?

Can anybody help me with this question?


Many thanks!

Oliver

[Hardrada55]

Oliver, Welcome to the forum! I do not think that a regular magazine or a Krieger conversion type magazine will work on a POE modified Remington Autoloading rifle. I have seen POE magazines for sale maybe once or twice in the past 28 years.

[81police]

Hello and welcome to the forums. Could you share some photos of your rifle with us? It would help us better answer your questions.

[Phyrbird]

Welcome from across the pond, you have good taste in collectables.
Carl

[Oliver]

Thanks a lot for this warm welcome!

I'm a big fan of mechanic developments. The era of steam & steal meant a lot for us mankind in the last two centuries. Of course, the possibilities of our digital world today is another step into future and it is not stoppable - but honestly I like things to grab, to feel, to see how they working, as well as I love recoil.....


I was asked to show the rifle I talked about. So there it is!
If you see the attachments below, you see the rifle, I want to buy. It is a POE rifle and did its service at the Sheriff Dept. Los Angeles County. It is in a brilliant condition, but there is one problem!

Because Germany has banned all high cap magazines over 10 rounds in 2021, the owner has given the 15-round magazine to the authorities. You could hold mags with a higher capacity, but you need an exemption Sadly, I have to say it is near sure, they have destroyed the magazine with other ones.... I know it is unbelievable, but at the moment many things are in a wrong way in Germany.

So, I'm looking for possibilities. I know there was a small charge of POE mags with 10 rounds. But, I know it is nearly impossible to get one.
That is why I thought of if the Krieger ones or a standard magazine would fix in this rifle. I'm no gun smith, so I don't know if the mechanic would work with such a standard magazine, nor if it would hold in the mag chamber or if it is changeable without the removed mag button the POE's have.

Another point is rebuilding a mag. Sounds crazy, but sometimes I'm a guy who gets what I want, does not matter if it is economically viable or not. I have contact to official gun makers, it would be possible to rebuild a "new" mag, but for such a project I need original plans to do that.

Last possibility is buying a POE mag, if somebody, or an auction sells one. I have a cousin in Pennsylvania, so the mag could stay there and I order a exemption at the authorities, to own such a mag for the rifle.


Would be great to start a discussion here at the forum, to see what you all think about and if there is a possibility to find a solution for my problem!

Thank you all!


Oliver

p.s. Will start an extra new point, because not all will come to the "rooky" section

[Hibby83]

Willkommen!

You found the best place to find out more about these ol' long recoil semi-auto's.