"Blue Steel" AR magazines

[Okiegunner]

Anyone have any experience with these?

ProMag, "Blue Steel" 30 round AR 15 magazines. I will quote from their website...

"30 round, Blue Steel magazines. Made from high carbon, heat treated steel and TIG welded for strength, dark blue finish. The springs are precision wound, using heat treated chrome/silicon wire"

These magazines (as of yesterday) are still avaliable on ProMag website, for $18.00 a piece. They do happen to be sold out on other's websites though. Midway, Natchez, FedTactical, etc.

I realize the poly, zytel, ProMags are considered to be plastic junk. I have never bought any because of this reputation. Are these steel mags any better? Are they a reasonably new offering?

Has or would anyone tried/try any?

 

[rcmodel]

There is nothing wrong with GI mil-spec aluminum mags.

There is nothing wrong with Mag-Pul plastic P-Mags.

The same cannot be said about Pro-Mag steel mags.

They have a pretty spotty reputation.

rc

 

[Jeff H]

+1 to what RC said.

I have both P mags and GI aluminum ones and have no issues with either. I hear both good and bad about ProMag but I have no personal exp with them.

 

[Inazone]

Although I don't have experience with this specific mag, I do own several of the "problematic" 15-round 9mm ProMags for the Hi-Point 995TS carbine and a couple for my Taurus PT92. No problems with any of them yet. To hear many people tell it, I shouldn't be able to get a round off with these combinations, being supposed junk guns AND mags. With repeated use or being stored loaded, maybe results would be different, but then again, maybe not.

At the moment, I think that plenty of folks are buying up mags that they may very well not intend to use. If a ban does come along and guns/mags are not transferable, it might not matter, but if private sales are allowed, being able to "sweeten the deal" with a handful of ProMags might be worth the minimal investment now. I for one wouldn't hesitate to use them in an SD/HD situation, but I have AR mags from numerous manufacturers and don't have a proven favorite, so I am just as likely to use a ProMag or Thermold as an aluminum GI mag.

 

[jmr40]

If anything else is available, buy something else. Some of these work OK, others not so well. But if it is the ProMags or nothing you may have to take your chances. If you were to buy 3, chances are pretty good at least 1 will work, maybe all 3.