jason41987
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hey everyone.. i was reading another topic on here, and it got me thinking of all the rifles out there that use the AR-15/STANAG type magwell... and it got me wondering why.. besides the obvious in that they all want to be NATO compliant and use the STANAG magazine.. but is it really the best magazine/magwell design out there?
obviously this is going to be very subjective and opinionated, but i would like to hear others opinions on why they think this is the best magazine/magwell design, or why they believe it isnt, and what they believe is....
heres my opinion... in rifles, all cartridge seem to be tapered to some extent between the base and the shoulder... so naturally when stacked theyre going to have a tendancy to stack with a radius to them... like trying to stack two pieces of pizza side by side, though not as extreme.. and in a straight magazine or magwell it doesnt really allow this so well, this is why 7.62x39, and 5.45 work very poorly in AR15 style magazines for converted AR15 rifles
also, with the straight magwell designs, when seating the magazine you rely on using force alone to seat the magazine straight into the magwell.. and sometimes it doesnt seat properly and this can cause feeding malfunctions, so many people with this type of magazine have learned to smack the bottom of it to ensure proper seating
and my third negative on this type of magwell is its restrictions in the size of magazines, all unusual style magazines such as drum magazines, casket magazines, etc require the top portion of the magazine to conform to the width and length of the magwell
there are some advantages, such as they drop free easier (usually), and offer better support to the magazine itself
on the other side of this ill compare AK type magazines... when you seat them, you use leverage to rock them back and once snapped in place, theyre seated very securely, very reliably... i would chalk up much of the AKs reliability to its design of the magazine/magwell allowing a constant radius curve to the magazine, and a more reliable seating
other advantages are unconventional magazines will work better with these, such as drums, helicals, caskets (quad stack)
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so what do you like more, and why?.. out of all the different types of magazine and magwell designs out there, not restricted to STANAG and AK?
obviously this is going to be very subjective and opinionated, but i would like to hear others opinions on why they think this is the best magazine/magwell design, or why they believe it isnt, and what they believe is....
heres my opinion... in rifles, all cartridge seem to be tapered to some extent between the base and the shoulder... so naturally when stacked theyre going to have a tendancy to stack with a radius to them... like trying to stack two pieces of pizza side by side, though not as extreme.. and in a straight magazine or magwell it doesnt really allow this so well, this is why 7.62x39, and 5.45 work very poorly in AR15 style magazines for converted AR15 rifles
also, with the straight magwell designs, when seating the magazine you rely on using force alone to seat the magazine straight into the magwell.. and sometimes it doesnt seat properly and this can cause feeding malfunctions, so many people with this type of magazine have learned to smack the bottom of it to ensure proper seating
and my third negative on this type of magwell is its restrictions in the size of magazines, all unusual style magazines such as drum magazines, casket magazines, etc require the top portion of the magazine to conform to the width and length of the magwell
there are some advantages, such as they drop free easier (usually), and offer better support to the magazine itself
on the other side of this ill compare AK type magazines... when you seat them, you use leverage to rock them back and once snapped in place, theyre seated very securely, very reliably... i would chalk up much of the AKs reliability to its design of the magazine/magwell allowing a constant radius curve to the magazine, and a more reliable seating
other advantages are unconventional magazines will work better with these, such as drums, helicals, caskets (quad stack)
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so what do you like more, and why?.. out of all the different types of magazine and magwell designs out there, not restricted to STANAG and AK?