It is often hard to imagine while looking at them that they were at one time just flame cut lumps of metal. Dennis does superb work and his guns always run beautifully. I have already bought two of his guns but had to sell them due to financial issues but I just recently bought a third one which I will be picking up Saturday and hopefully I’ll be able to hang onto this one.

It is a much less expensive way of owning a weapon like this and avoids the long registration process and the high expense of buying a full auto version if you can find one at a class 3 firearms dealer. These designs have to be approved by the BATFE before they can be sold to the shooting public. Dennis produces his semi auto Madsens by taking a parts kit with a torch cut receiver and carefully re-welding the pieces while at the same time modifying it internally so no full auto parts can be fitted. He has since discontinued making these due to the general hassle, time and expense of properly machining down the browning barrels and fitting them to the breach assemblies. Dennis Ricke of Midwest Metal Creations in Lisbon, Iowa has been producing 19 Madsen Semi auto conversions for several years now and I know he made a small run of 7.62×51 barrels for his customers using lathe turned Browning 1919a4 barrels as the basis and these supposedly worked fine with the stock magazines. The kit’s real visual strength is the wooden stock and forend which accentuate the rifle’s appearance and makes it look sporty and more appealing than the plastic furniture of the G-3. In answer to your question about the stock Madsen magazines using 7.62×51 I’ve heard of people using stock Chilean 30-06/8×57 mag with 7.62×51. Our parts set includes all parts shown in the pictured parts breakdown above including the trunion and other necessary receiver parts for your semi auto build.

Madsen parts kit