Will
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Best type and where to purchase? Black teflon/green follower, British SA80,...?
AR Magazines
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Troy over on AR15.com put together a really good primer:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=17&t=163158
Now my personal opinon:
I have been happy with anything GI, and have had very good luck with the steel SA80 mags. My bottom line is I buy the cheapest GI or SA80 mags I can find. I prefer the green(or orange) followers which are pretty much the standard anyway.
I buy all my mags on the Equipment Exchange over on AR15.com, but I am sure someone out here knows where the other deals are.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=17&t=163158
Now my personal opinon:
I have been happy with anything GI, and have had very good luck with the steel SA80 mags. My bottom line is I buy the cheapest GI or SA80 mags I can find. I prefer the green(or orange) followers which are pretty much the standard anyway.
I buy all my mags on the Equipment Exchange over on AR15.com, but I am sure someone out here knows where the other deals are.
rock jock
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I have never used the SA80 mags, but I can't imagine why someone would want to use a mag that is prone to rust and heavier than aluminum GI mags. I have had good luck with the latter and Thermolds also.
Nightcrawler
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I would imagine because a steel magazine is stronger than an aluminum one. M16 magazines, in my experience, tend to be on the flimsy side. Light, yes, durable, no. Kind of a tradeoff, I guess.
Gary G23
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USGI with green followers.
Chipperman
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All of mine are either GI or SA-80. I've had Zero probs with any of them. Most of the GI ones have green followers.
Joe Demko
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Idle curiosity...do you suppose long-term use of the steel SA-80 magazines could chew up the magazine well in an AR? Steel is harder than aluminum, after all. I don't have any SA-80 magazine, got such a big pile of Adventure Lines that work well that I never bothered to pick any SA-80's up.
Absolut
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ny32182
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Another Clemson student?
Mine are all USGI with black followers. I bought 10 of them used at a gun show, and had a slight problem with one of them. The other 9 have been 100% flawless.
Can't decide if I should order some more NIW with green followers now, or just wait till September and hope to get them for less money.
Mine are all USGI with black followers. I bought 10 of them used at a gun show, and had a slight problem with one of them. The other 9 have been 100% flawless.
Can't decide if I should order some more NIW with green followers now, or just wait till September and hope to get them for less money.
Captain Scarlet
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sigman4rt said;
I think you have Sanchez mixed up with Cooper. The only magazine ever taken out of service was made by Cooper. Many of them had 3 welds instead of 5 and they would swell when fully loaded. Sanchez was still making magazines when I retired last October.
Jeff
I think you have Sanchez mixed up with Cooper. The only magazine ever taken out of service was made by Cooper. Many of them had 3 welds instead of 5 and they would swell when fully loaded. Sanchez was still making magazines when I retired last October.
Jeff
Monkeyleg
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At one of the last gun shows, a dealer had hundreds of GI 20-round mags, most of them Universal, for $10.95. His father does the grounds cleanup at Fort McCoy here. When then National Guard comes to practice, they're given full mags to shoot, which they just toss when they're done. So the father just picks them up like acorns. Talk about a profit!
Joe Demko
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I don't believe that the military issues 20 round magazines any more. Magazine pouches have been designed around the 30-round magazines for some time.
Nightcrawler
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The 20 rounders still turn up in Guard units from time to time. Not so much these last couple years.
Gordon
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I'll take a like new 20 round Colt mag anyday for my AR's . Worked for me in Nam, worked since, lighter and I don't need/want more than 18 rounds in a mag anyway
Peetmoss
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Just commenting on the steel mags in the aluminum mag wells. You will were out several barrels and several uppers before the mag well has been worn excesivly. Also if I remember correctly an SA80 mag weighs a mere 2oz more then the USGI mags. A very negligable wieght diffrence for just about everyone.
Monkeyleg
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Golgo-13, I'm not going to take issue with you. You obviously know more about what the NG folks are issued than I do. All I know is that this dealer, a guy in his 20's, had hundreds of excellent condition 20-rounders priced at $10.95 each. And he has several hundreds more--maybe even into the thousands--at his father's house. And he's not selling them at his cost, as I'm sure you'd agree. When I asked him how many he thought he had, he said he didn't know exactly, but said he had crates full.
You can walk through the training areas and kick up loaded enbloc clips for M1s at Ft McCoy. I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't thousands of USGI 20 rounders laying in the sand up there. I may even have dropped a couple there myself
Jeff
Jeff
c_yeager,
Even the regular Army had grease guns until a few years ago in armor units. They were BII on ACVs. Two per tank for the crew to use while dismounted. The M4 replaced them.
Jeff
Even the regular Army had grease guns until a few years ago in armor units. They were BII on ACVs. Two per tank for the crew to use while dismounted. The M4 replaced them.
Jeff
Originally Posted by Golgo-13
You mean like the steel bolt carrier wears out the aluminum upper receiver? I seriously doubt there is a problem with using steel mags in the mag well.
Btw, aren't the new HK wonder mags being used by SF these days made of steel as well?
You mean like the steel bolt carrier wears out the aluminum upper receiver? I seriously doubt there is a problem with using steel mags in the mag well.
Btw, aren't the new HK wonder mags being used by SF these days made of steel as well?
Joe Demko
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I don't doubt that you saw them or that he was charging that much for them. I also don't doubt that he told you that story about their provenance. It's his story that sounded just a bit fishy to me.
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