Promag. What has been your experience?

I have a single SKS promag. Never failed, but that's one out of god knows how many.

I bought a Promag Lee-enfield mag and NEVER AGAIN.
It was about 40$, 15 dollars cheaper than the OG military mags at the time (2018)
It would only work sometimes and eventually it got to the point it won't even feed rounds anymore. I tried pushing down on the mag follower and the whole spring and follower assembly flew out. I put it back it and retired that mag. Absolute waste of money.
I replaced it with a OG military mag. It was $100 dollars for that new mag but it was far more worth it than the Pmag.

It makes you wonder how they stay in business if their products are so bad.

gobsauce said:

It makes you wonder how they stay in business if their products are so bad.

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AR-15 mags. Actually they're the best kind on the market, and stay in business because of those.

The 25 round Marlin Model 70 magazine and the 18 round G44 magazines have been good to go for me. The other ProMag magazines I have tried in the past have not been so good.

I have a couple for my AR no problems, so far. got a deal on a 10 pk but have only used 2 of them.

I have a couple of their Beretta mags. Loading them is the problem, but they seem to shoot OK.

The follower design is pretty bad and it "rocks" and I often have to thumb the rounds back out about half way through loading them and start over. The rounds rattle around a lot too when they are loaded and don't ever seem to settle down.

I'm really surprised they shoot OK, but they do.

the only time i have ever seen an AR legitimately jam from something other than steel case low pressure ammo, was when a round jumped out of the mag, and wedged into the channel of the charging handle, and the bolt bent into upper. Could not open it, had to pry the live round out with a screw driver. Never thought an AR had enough recoil to jump rounds, but it did with a pro-mag. Funny thing is, the SureFeed mags cost less.

The only Promag that worked for me was for an NAA guardian 32 auto. Promag discontinued it.

50/50

I would say, if anyone wants promag, my recommendation would be to buy one mag, try it, if it works, then buy them in small batches.

I wouldn't buy more than one without testing, and I wouldn't buy in bulk even after testing.

Don't buy a promag and assume it will work. Buy one or 2 and take them to the range and try them out.

Only one I got recently that wouldn't work was a 20 round Beretta 92 mag. Didn't even have to take it to the range. I think it had the wrong spring in it. I could load up 5 rounds and the rounds were under so much spring force with just 4 or 5 in the 20 rounder I would send the slide forward and the slide would stop. It couldn't strip off the round. I put a different spring it there and it was fine after that.

I have several from over the years. All the way back to a Ruger p97dc up to my newer Glock 44. Never had one work right.

I’ve purchased several “happy sticks”, I.e., 30 to 33 rounders for several guns where better quality larger capacity mags were never made. Seems like, based on my experience, if you want 3 good ones, buy 5 or 6 and return the ones that don’t feed. The ones that do feed, I keep, but will never trust them beyond range work.

On the up side, you get plenty of experience clearing jams.....

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally depends:

• For a Walther P38, flawless.
• For Mini-14, steel 20-shot ones, flawless.
• For larger capacity, "Wonder Nines", mixed-to-crap, depending on the platform.
• For Mac-10 submachine-gun, slightly modified, polymer ones work good enough for the grins. Cheap fun.
• The rest? Total, unredeemable, garbage.

Your mileage may vary.

I've had a few different ones and so far have not run into any real issues.
That said I haven't had any of the higher capacity pistol magazines which is where I think you'll see the issues most prevalently.

LoonWulf said:

That said I haven't had any of the higher capacity pistol magazines which is where I think you'll see the issues most prevalently.

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Perhaps. All of mine are higher capacity than factory i believe. The old p97 is 8 i believe from ruger. The promag are 10. I have two. They are worthless except for single shots. My hi point carbine is 10 I believe while the promag is 15. Again making the gun a single shot. 2 of those as well (When you make a sub par magazine compared to hi point......)
The Glock mags are 10 rounds the promag are 18 and although I get a minimum of 1 jam per mag (4 seperate mags) they aren't so bad if I load 15 rather than 18. Down loading the others never helped. I have several more but no idea what they are..

I recently ordered sgm and ets brand mags. I hope they are better. Promag actually made me refuse to buy aftermarket mags for 20 years. Lol. Then pmags won me back over. Then promag almost ruined it again with those g44 mags.

Not good experiences personally, I always go for OEM or a higher quality A/M.
However, the Promag I got for my old Beretta Jetfire in .25 ACP works like a charm, and nobody else offered one at the time (not sure about now)

I got some 20 round Promags with my Beretta 92FS. The 92FS didn't like them much, but my Kel-Tex SUB2000 loved them. The 15 round Check-Mate's were totally unloved by both of them. I played around with the lips on them and eventually got them to work in the 92FS pretty much 100%. Not bad for basically 3 free mags of each kind, along with 4 Meg-Gars that work in anything. I really liked that 92FS, but I needed money so it went away. All the mags but one stayed.

Have several 30 & 40 rd Promags for my AR and two each for my Bersa Thunder .380's. Never had an issue with one.

The few ProMags I have work because I had to make them work.

Fer instance, I bought a 20 round steel AR15 magazine many years ago because it was hanging on a rack at a sporting goods store I was walking through.

In use, the first cartridge or two would nose dive in the magazine when the bolt was released. Which caused the cartridge to slam the bullet deep into its own case.

I fixed that ProMag magazine by installing a yellow MagPul no tilt follower.

I have one— for a Bersa Thunder380. Works fine— after some polishing of the mag tube internally and of the follower.

Palladan44 said:

nobody else offered one at the time (not sure about now)

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I bought several for 22 and 25 in the cabelas bargain cave. 7.99 each for factory Beretta.

I haven’t bought a Pro-Mag in a long time.
The reason? The ones I bought were garbage.
Let’s see…I bought:
1911 mags - garbage
M1 carbine mags - garbage
Glock 17 mags- garbage

Now, to be fair, that was 15-20 years ago.
In conversations that I have heard at gun stores and gun shows Pro-Mag still has a poor reputation, but I do not know if their products have improved.
I am not willing to spend money on them to find out.

I bought a couple of Promags for SIG P220 several years ago. So did a friend.
His work, mine don't.
I bought Promags for my Nelson Conversion. Said they were for Kimber and Marvel, but they did not feed in my Nelson of Marvel design.