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What's up with people who only want USGI mags for their AR?
A lot of USGI mags I've seem are pretty "cheaply" build, I've seen most Chinese steel AK mags are made to better quality.
Last edited by UrbanWolf; 10-19-2013 at 15:02.
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In the last 25 years of shooting AR's USGI mags have served me just fine. You do know Pmags are pretty new to the market and USGI mags have been proven for around 40 plus years now. What problems have you had with USGI mags?????
Last edited by beast556; 10-19-2013 at 17:15.
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They're ugly... But they work well.Originally Posted by beast556
I've pretty much always run the aluminum GI mags in my AR's. I do prefer the Magpul followers in them. Although, I've never really had a problem with the green or tan ones.
Search around a little. There was a good torture test on magazines done several years back. The GI mags were about the best you could get.
Plus, thousands of soldiers world wide use them with great success every day.
You're comparing USGI for AR's to Chinese STEEL for an AK, try comparing the same mag for the same rifle. ? ? ? Compare the USGI to bulgarian steel AR mags, there's a difference.
Last edited by Great-Kazoo; 10-19-2013 at 17:32.
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You know after doing all the research on anti-tilt followers and all the advancements other manufactures claim to be the latest and greatest, I have yet to have any of my USGI mags fail even once and I use them all the time. This is not a plug either way, but if something works why try and fix it? Personally I buy whatever is on sale and run it for a while. If I find a problem I try to iron it out and make them run reliably, but if it still does not want to work then I throw them in the trash. The only mags that I had to throw away were some cheepo steel mags I bought off of CDNN that had pressed steel followers. they would bind like crazy so I threw some magpul followers in there and they did not fit right due to the cheaply stampped guides and would bind just as bad as the steel pieces of crap. So I kept the springs and base plate because they seemed alright and threw away the rest. At $5 a mag I new it was a gamble.
Mags are the most over-hyped piece on a gun. Yes it is important that they are reliable, but they are super simple by design and if you cant figure out a way to file or tweak one to work perfectly then you might want to reconsider hobbies.
I would imagine that it would break down long before aluminum breaks down whatever the timeline.
Yeah, but hey, what kind of mags did they use to kill Osama Bin Ladin?
I have honestly never used anything in an AR except PMags. I like the look and feel of them, and I've never had any problems, so I don't see a reason to buy anything else.
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