PROMAG

[dave29]

Just bought some PROMAG 42 round mags. First thing I noticed is that they are not drop free like my PMAGS. Anyone out there have experience with these??
Thanks

[Hoser]

I have a little experience with them.

None of it good.

[Sawin]

What Hoser said.

Mine drops free though, but it feeds unreliably. I haven't changed out the follower for a magpul follower, though. That certainly can't hurt it....

[Squeeze]

The only thing made by Promag that I use are the 32-round 9mm AR mags and I have had good luck with those. Now that being said, any other magazine made by them for any other platform, I have heard nothing good. My .02.

[Goodburbon]

I can't say good things about pro-mag.

[Sawin]

I'll swap out the follower in mine with a magpul no-tilt one, and followup with a review.

[Daniel_187]

PRO-MAG sucks, I tried to like them but after many bad mags I won't touch them with a 10' stick.

[brutal]

I will never buy another promag product again in my life. Pure trash. I have a few and all the followers are utter shit.

Only good if you want to practice FTF issues. I've also seen a fair amount of their crap broken plastic baseplates laying around at the range.

BTW, shame on whomever for leaving their trash.

[dave29]

I ordered three Magpul no tilt followers. Unless I ordered the wrong ones, they don't fit the Promags. They say they fit USGI steel mags. Are there others????

[Sawin]

I ordered three Magpul no tilt followers. Unless I ordered the wrong ones, they don't fit the Promags. They say they fit USGI steel mags. Are there others????

Nope, if they don't fit, I'm afraid that's the end of it. I was planning to do exactly that, but evidently they're too different. :(

[Jamesonehr]

Pro-mag is trash. A few of their pistol mags are decent, but I have never had anything from them work reliably.

[RCCrawler]

The only thing made by Promag that I use are the 32-round 9mm AR mags and I have had good luck with those.

I've heard those were junk as well, may have to try some.

[ChunkyMonkey]

They work fine on all of my AR... I cut V into the front of the lip to match the m4 cut.

[MAP]

Old thread alert

I bought 4 @ $16.50. All are functioning (now), easy fixes.

Here's the feed issue fix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd_REKhNNeQ (if you're interested, here's the original vid from the same guy from a couple of months before http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ly--g_yCyc )

Gimme a sec and I'll show you why it doesn't drop free.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/19/qe5apy8e.jpg

Some weekend rocket scientist at ProMag put a 5.56x45 cartouche RIGHT above the mag catch. So if you press (but don't hold) the mag release it will catch in the cartouche and hold the mag in the weapon.

It took about 5 minutes to round the upper edge pff the cartouche and now the mag drops free.

The feed lips are about an 1/8th inch shorter on each side and if you're not usimg a stripper clip guide or a mag loader like a LULA, rounds will occasionally pop free during loading.

Right now I'm still experimenting but I'll keep everyone posted.

With easy access to proven high quality magazines is it worth the effort?

Mike