Is this .45 kit legit

nklf

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It appears to be correct, but I’m not sure how rare they are. I personally don’t like the Uzi in .45, but as you know it’s worth what someone is willing to pay. To me the Uzi is too choppy in 45 but your tastes are different than mine.
 

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If you can find a 45 SMG kit cheaper I would be shocked. The SMG 45 bolt is the rarest bolt. The cheapest I have seen is 650 just for the Bolt. Sold out at this price in just a day.

It looks to be an IMI to me.
 

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My gosh, that price!
Mine is a semi, but I bought the kit from Vector back then for I think $250.
Apples and oranges I guess though.
I keep my full size in .45. K grip, black polymer stock, red dot sight and mount, grease gun lower.
They are known to dent brass, so it’s only steel case for that one.
I haven’t tried to reload the dented brass, so maybe it’s possible.
I have no experience with f/a .45, so I wouldn’t know.
 

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$1650 --- Damn. With only one mag, and those mags that fit uzi mag wells are impossible to find as well. The fix was a modified lower that accepted grease gun (M3) mags. No one makes those anymore either. So my 45 conversion kit, with the converted lower and a dozen or so grease gun mags must be worth $2000 -- or a case and a half of 9mm.
 

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It's not the most expensive one I've seen, I think RoverDave got $2175 for his kit a couple of weeks ago and there's been a few 45 semi kits that have sold for around 1700 recently too looking at closed GB auctions. This one looked like a clean kit though.
 

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$1650 --- Damn. With only one mag, and those mags that fit uzi mag wells are impossible to find as well. The fix was a modified lower that accepted grease gun (M3) mags. No one makes those anymore either. So my 45 conversion kit, with the converted lower and a dozen or so grease gun mags must be worth $2000 -- or a case and a half of 9mm.
I’d keep it, and just buy more 9mm.
 

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Are the .45 10rd mags for the regular grip for semi and f/a?
I have a few. Are they worth much anymore?

The kit I bought, and this like 15 years ago, came with one plastic 16-rd magazine that fit into a regular 9mm uzi lower. At that time, extras were selling for $100+ if you could find them. Buying the M3 lower for $250 and a pile of 30-rd M3 mags at $12 a pop was a no brainer. Since no one makes the M3 lower anymore, I'm sure someone would buy them off you. Probably that fool who just paid $1650 for his kit on Gunbroker yesterday. 16 rounds goes real fast in a machine gun.
 

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The SMG 45 bolt is the rarest bolt. The cheapest I have seen is 650 just for the Bolt.
Yep. That’s the only part of the conversion I’m missing. They’re usually over $1000 when they come up for sale. I get by using a semi-auto bolt with mine. I had a s/a sear in the GG grip housing for a while to run with the s/a .45 setup, but I switched that so I can run the .40 conversion on f/a. I just use IMI and Promag single stack mags with the .45. Not a big deal when only shooting one at a time.

Realistically, I don’t see myself using it much anyway. I’ve got a couple other caliber conversions for the Uzi, but it stays set up in 9mm pretty much all the time. The Reising still works, should I need to burn up a bunch of .45 ammo.
 

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I saw that too, was tempted to bid on it, but if I really want to shoot .45. I'll shoot my thompson.
 
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