Ruger 10/22 Magazine Handle and Joiners

A handle for a Ruger 10/22 magazine, and magazine joiners. The 10-round magazines are fiddly things to manipulate, and recess into the rifle receiver. This handle gives you something to grab onto to extract stuck magazines, and to rapidly orient the magazine during magazine changes in IPSC mini-rifle competitions.

A natural follow-on from this was to create plugs that join two or three magazines end-to-end.

Depending on your build quality, the washer may or may not hold during competition work, so if you are not going to ever remove the printed part, feel free to glue them in with hot glue. A plain handle is provided with smoother lines for this.

It can be made longer or shorter by customizing magazine_length, and the radius of the grip ridge size (grip_rad) etc. can be customised in the OpenSCAD file (all the designs are in the one SCAD file).

Post-Printing

CAUTION

As with all firearms maintenance not directly involved in firing a round, please first ensure your gun and magazines are unloaded. Thank you.

Fitting a removable handle to a magazine

Print the shorter retaining washer, and the handle. The length of the handle can be changed in OpenSCAD if desired.

Put an M5 or 10-32 nut inside the handle cavity, and if your print tolerances are tight using a screw and washer(s) tighten the nut into place.

With just the nut installed, put the handle into the bottom cavity of a magazine, put the lipped washer into the matching notches in the magazine fore end and the handle, stack as wide a washer as you can on the front, and screw firmly together with a 25mm or so machine screw.

Fitting a double magazine joiner

Print the longer retaining washer.

Snap off the 6 support pillars at the base of the print. You may well need to heat and reshape things until the joiner will fit into the magazines.

Put an M5 or 10-32 nut inside the joiner cavity, and if your print tolerances are tight using a screw and washer(s) tighten the nut into place.

With just the nut installed, put a magazine on each side of the joiner, put the lipped washer into the matching notches in the magazine fore ends, stack as wide a washer as you can on the front, and screw firmly together with a 25mm or so machine screw.

Again, if desired, the magazines' base cavities may be loaded with a little hot glue around the edges, and pushed together for a permanent fit.

Fitting a permanent handle

If desired, the magazine base cavity may be loaded with a little hot glue around the edges, and a handle pushed in for a permanent fit. As no front washer or bolt is needed for this, you can use the "Plain Handle' design.

Fitting a triple magazine joiner

There is no removable design for this. First, snap off the 9 support pillars at the base of the print. You may well need to heat and reshape things until all the sides of the joiner will fit into the magazines.

Put hot glue into the inside edges of a magazine cavity and push one side of the triple joiner in. Repeat with two more magazines. It really helps if they're all pointing the same way…